RE: Turkey?

[Guest guest]

Hi Cory,

I have been diagnosed just 6 weeks ago, so I'm still trying to get up to speed on foods, but I did read somewhere to stay clear of the self-basting turkeys.

On a separate note, do any of you live in the Peninsula? I'm in City and would learn to love where you shop or mail order your food. Any ideas for a good stuffing and other Thanksgiving type foods?

Thanks.

-Krishna

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of corykattSent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: [ ] Turkey?

So somehow I decided to make the turkey for the potluck TG I am hosting... I have never made a turkey, before or after being GF! So anyone, first of all, have a good recommendation for a place to buy a turkey in the northbay? (organic would be great, but just GF is fine) Any cooking tips??? Thank you!

[Guest guest]

> On a separate note, do any of you live in the

> Peninsula? I'm in City

> and would learn to love where you shop or mail order

> your food. Any ideas

> for a good stuffing and other Thanksgiving type

> foods?

Hi-

I'm in San Mateo and feed a GF husband and 1 year old

daughter (who also don't eat corn so that further

limits the options). They are able to eat pretty well

on what we can get from Whole Foods, Trader Joes and

Draeger's. The majority comes from WF & TJs but there

are some GREAT snacks and mixes etc you can get at

Draeger's (if you're not familiar with it it's a high

end grocery store at 4th & B Street in downtown San

Mateo). Draeger's also has the 'I Can Eat That' pizza

shells which (once I finally got some last month) I

have to agree are the best I've had to date (other

than the recipe I made up to make them from scratch

but we don't always have time for that). If you

aren't familiar with any of these stores and want to

know some of the things they have and where to find

them in the actual stores, feel free to email me!

Like I said, between these 3 stores we get pretty much

everything we need. The Safeway on El Camino near 92

in SM (I don't know about the Safeway in FC) also has

an increasing number of GF items in their 'natural

food' section which is great. I'm not on top of what

they have though because I only go there about 1 or 2

times a year (I live 2 blocks from TJ's so its our

main grocery store).

As for stuffing, I've had REALLY good luck following

any old stuffing recipe and just using GF bread (and

other GF ingredients). You just have to be careful to

choose or make a GF bread that's not too moist or

chewy. One thing I can say is DO NOT use the Food for

Life breads for this. They are way too sticky and the

stuffing comes out a chewy glop. I have successfully

used the ener-g sandwich breads (I don't think they

taste so great as bread-especially the brown rice one-

but they're the perfect texture for stuffing and taste

fine in there). I think the Whole Food's sandwich

bread would probably work fine too. No matter what

you use, just cut it up in cubes and either dry it

overnight in your oven or lightly toast them in the

oven (don't over dry though. And toasting before

cubing doesn't work either. At least not alone-you'll

still need to dry them after that because you want all

sides of the cube to dry out a bit). There are also

rice stuffing recipes that can be yummy. But if

you're a traditionalist and like bread stuffing just

go for it. I think you might even be able to find a

mix or two on the market (I seem to remember there was

one or two but I wrote them off in my memory because

they had corn) but homemade stuffing is so much

yummier than mixes anyway.

HTH and please feel free to email me if you want the

inside guide to the stores I mentioned! I also do an

order from the Gluten Free Mall occasionally but

mostly for some snacks for my toddler.

Sorry for the novel!

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