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zimandtakandgrrandmimi

....but I hate planning dinners..

Ok so I need to plan a dinner for two vegetarians, a person with celiac, and one allergic to tomatoes as well as two meat eaters who don't do fish and one that doesn't do pork...

Ideas for a menu???

Filnyyena

PASTAS

Eggplant lasanga for the veggies, I don't know what celiac is, sorry

For the one alergic to tomatoes: one of the fancy noodles (bow tie for example) with butter/pesto/parm cheese.

And for the meat eaters: You can do either a chicken pasta (pasta with home-ade semi-spicy pasts sauce with black olives, or if they prefer other type of olives that is fine too, and white breast meat of chicken..Optional: Add spinach, peppers, etc..basically anything you wish to add. I just like it straight up home-ade sauce and chicken and black olives though.

Can also do a meat lasagna.....

SORRY lol....my mom is a gourmet italian cook...I don't know her exact recipees but she turned me into a pasta lover.

Also, home-ade chicken noodle soup (with shell pasta) with a spoon full of cayenne pepper every bite..mmmmm delicious......

zimandtakandgrrandmimi

having celiac means you can't eat gluten. Which I know is in wheat but idont know if its in anything else...I am still researching

Filnyyena

Oh so pastas is out of the question?

How about a nice salad? Get some fruit and some light rasberry vinegret dressing..spinach leaves, those thin-leafed kind of bitter leaves (I think iceberg but I KNOW I am wrong), add some raspberries and mandarine oranges with some shopped nuts (almonds I believe), strawberries, and mm..I'd say cheese. A small amount of sharp chedder tillamook cheese sprinkled on top. Not joking either.

With that you can also give a bean dish..maybe a variety of beans? Like, maybe a casserole of some sort.

jbray01

thats a toughie. do the vegetarians eat fish?

if so..

we make a meal sometimes that might work..

we put a homemade pesto over cannelini beans.

we either make basil/pistachio nut pesto (my favorite), an arrugula/walnut pesto or a spinach/walnut pesto.

we also grill up some salmon to go with it...

its really yummyyyyy

LeRoymydog

Sounds like Thanksgiving at our house. I'm a vegetarian (with allergies to corn, soy and fruit- I have an anaphalactic reaction), my mom has celiac, and the rest are meat eaters.

ara28

Is the person that has celiacs also a vegetarian? Because if not, they can still eat chicken, beef, whatever... Some of the main things that include gluten are bread, pasta, oatmeal, and barley. If you can find rice pasta that would be perfect for the person with celiacs. My sister has a mild version of celiacs and she's vegetarian and her boyfriend eats meat so I can definately give you some ideas, I just have to think a sec about what they usually eat..........

Taco's work nice with CORN tortillas, NOT flour. you can have the meal set out in "serving sections" like a plate for the tortillas a bowl for cheese, a bowl for sour cream, a bowl for tomatoes, a bowl for the meat etc... and they can build their own taco.. That way you should be able to accomodate everyone, without having to make a million different things for each person.

Oh an when you're purchasing gluten free items PLEASE make sure you read the ingredients label. And the bottom, if there's no gluten it should say "GLUTEN FREE" I know that there are some strange things that have gluten in them like soy sauce. If the person with celiacs has a severe case you need to be very very careful with what you buy at the store....

K8IE

The taco idea is great. Beef (for the non-vegetarians) black and refried beans (for anyone else) for protein, and veggies and corn (for the celiac person) and flour tortillas (for anyone else). My sister has celiac disease and it makes me get creative when she visits to prepare meals that are safe for her to eat. If you google gluten free recipes you can come up with a lot of good ideas. Most important of all, I would say, is making sure that the gluten free person is accommodated, considering how sick a contaminated meal can make them. When my sister comes to visit I go shopping at Whole Foods with her on the phone to get what all she needs and is able to eat. Making sure that everything is a "whole" food is the best way to go, so that there is no possibility of things being cross contaminated by wheat/gluten. Good luck!

Filnyyena

Now I want tacos..

Can I come eat at your place Zim?

I'll eat what the celiac-vegatarian-but sometimes meat eating-fish lover-tomato haters don't eat

BetterDog4U

Sirloin or ribeye steaks on the grill for the non vegi's

Stuffed Portabello mushrooms on the grill for the vegi's

Stuff the mushrooms with a herb and cheese mix. Use diced onions, minced green veg and carrots. Cheese mix can be anything you like. I use Mozzarella, chedder and mascaponni.

Any Glutin in patatos? I'm not sure, but a qiuck scalloped patato dish would work great.

For desert: thin slice some fruit, (peachs, pears, apples, strawberries etc) and put it in a large skillet. Cook slowly until the fruit is tender. add some brown sugar and make a thin carmel sause. Let it cool and serve it over vanilla ice cream.

Another quick desert is Bananas Foster. See Food TV for details

zimandtakandgrrandmimi

so im going with the tacos idea but with a slight twist. I called abuela in bogota and got some traditional colombian dishes that can be made gluten free that work vey much like tacos where you run through and choose your own ingrediants. thanks guys!

allison

Do you have Trader Joes near you? They have a wide variety of gluten free pastas.

Sautee some olive oil, garlic, onions, and whatever other veggies you want to make a good veggie pasta--this is good for both vegetarians.

Sautee some chicken separately and throw into the pasta for the meat eaters. No one will know the pasta is gluten free.

Make some garlic bread for everyone except the gluten person... at trader joes they have gluten free breadsticks!