Gluten-free Christmas

[WishesAndStars]

Is there any appetite (sorry terrible pun) for a gf christmas thread? I find it the hardest time of year, and usually feel a bit deprived.

I thought we could swap some recipes and tips.

I am going to try to make the Nigella chocolate Christmas cake, but sub out the wheat flour for Dove's farm gf flour. I will probably add a lot little extra booze so it isn't dry.

I have also ordered some things from Baked to Taste to try them out before Christmas. They do lovely looking things like mince pies, sausage rolls, pies and pasties. I will report back when I've had a chance to try things.

My mum managed a pretty good bread sauce last year with Genius bread, so I'll have to ask her how she did it.

Anyone have any other tips for a lovely gf Christmas?

BedPig - I saw these frozen roasties on Ocado the other day - they are gluten free. I haven't tried them though, so I can't vouch for their quality!

bedpig - previous years, M&S have done a garnish pack with bacon wrapped chipolatas, stuffing balls and so on. The chestnut stuffing is really nice too

Yey! I'm in :) last Christmas I found a brilliant magazine called gluten free Christmas and we did quite a few of the recipes from that. The stollen cake went down a storm and the gingerbread was great too.

I had a gluten free mince pie in sainsbury cafe today and twas most pleasing :) def m and s for sausages (though their bread is shite) and our able and Cole Christmas catalogue had quite a few gluten free options in it too. We're trying a Xmas pudding from tesco.

Thank for that Wishes and CMOT, some good ideas although I'm wondering whether I should just do the roasties myself? I've never done them before but I saw a straight forward method in the asda Christmas magazine that was gf. I obviously need to practice making and eating lots of roast dinners before Christmas

I've already got my roasties in the freezer ready to shove in the oven on Christmas day. I just threw the potatoes into a pan off boiling water, brought back to boil then cooked for 7 mins, drained, returned to pan still on heat for 30 seconds to dry off then sprinkled with rice flour and shook to roughen them up a bit. Then I laid them out, not touching, on trays lined with greaseproof paper and once cool put them in the freezer. When they are totally frozen solid you can shove them in a freezer bag then just cook in hot oil/fat for 30 mins on the day.

I can confirm that ive taste tested the m&s Xmas pud and it's yummy!

The small Tescos pud was lovely. I ate it purely in the interests of public information of course

Testing of products pre-Christmas is very important and a public service of course.

Marking for later.

My DD is wheat and egg free (among many others) so I'll be baking a variety of bits and pieces in the run up. As she's now 3.10, I feel bad if we indulge without a suitable alternative for her.

Thanks for the gluten and egg free mince pies recipe!

Ive been gluten free for a couple of years and Christmas is quite easy.

Were getting turkey from m and s this year gf stuffing and wrapped in bacon not bad. ..but we usually get tesco butter basted turkey crown which is good to.

Roast potatoes are easy I boil them for about 10 mins first while heating a deep oven tray with oil in and once oil is nice and hot transfer potatos over (without the water obviously) and cook until golden brown I keep flipping them until whole potato is golden.

For pudding ive perfected a fridge cheesecake which my dp says is the best cheesecake ever. I use gluten free digestives for the base.

Ive also recently perfected gf yorkshires.

Apart from that nibbles are a little harder 99p shop had gf pringle style crisps and roses/quality streets are fine.