Question by UponMyLiarsChair: My girlfriend has celiac disease and cannot eat a bunch of foods. What are some things I can make for her?
I’d like to make my girlfriend a sort of romantic dinner but she has celiac disease and it’s quite difficult for me to think of something I can make.
She’s allergic to wheat, dairy, gluten, peanuts, and a couple other things.
It won’t kill her or anything…but I’d prefer not to poison my gf.
Any Suggestions?
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Answer by melody Morris
hi my mom has celiac and i always make her food it is very expensive though, she can have gluten free brownies and annies pasta, pasta sauce she can have is prego also anything organic but read the label!
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Actually, it ends up that you can still cook a lot of the same recipes but you buy gluten free ingredients. I had never heard of the disease until I worked with a guy whose wife had it. Once we started talking abotu it, I became away of just how many people have it and how many gluten free products are now made. Its amazing!
When it doubt, stay with fresh items like a grilled chicken breast flavored with salt and pepper, any kind of veggie. Try salad (you woulld have to research the dressing) and fill it with all sorts of goodies like carrots, black eyed peas, tuna, hard boiled egg, etc.
steaks without seasonings (you can use salt and pepper or other spices, just check the ingredient labels). with potatoes or fruits or vegetables as a side dish. roasted potatoes with salt and pepper and parlsley is delicious. for desert, strawberries with whipped cream. thats just an idea.
start with a salad. buy a gluten free/ dairy free dressing, or make one with oil and rice vinegar or lemon juice.
she can have any meat, serve with roasted potatoes, and green beans (or broccoli, or asparagus)
finish off with dairy free sorbet.
a rice-pasta is good, its pasta made completely from rice and you could make a homemade marinara sauce with clams or meatballs or whatever she likes
side it with a simple salad and gluten-free dressing (any health food store or organic supermarket can help you with that)
there are may gluten-free dessert recipes on the internet. to be safe, you can make a cinamon-apple dessert baked in the oven: slice some apples vertically in half and core them, then throw on some cinamon and a bit of sugar and bake them until they ar soft. tastes great and by baking the apple it boosts the fiber content.
to be safe, i wouls suggest making as much of it homemade as you can
Appetizer
Shrimp Cocktail with a gluten free cocktail sauce or make one from ketchup, horseradish and lemon juice.
Small Salad with oil and vinegar or commercial gluten free dressing
Main course
Pork chop marinated in 2 tablespoons each of apple juice, Lee and Perrin Worschestire Sauce, GF Dijon mustard and brown sugar. Add some rosemary and dill weed 1/4 teaspoon each. Marinate for 2-3 hours and then grill or bake in oven at 350 for 30 minutes.
Roasted potatoes or rice
Any green vegetable you would like to add that she likes. Asparagus, broccoli, squash, brussel sprouts.
Dessert — may be hardest course with dairy restriction. Can she take a Lactaid and eat dairy if it is a lactose intolerance? The best thing to do would be to get some nice strawberries and slice them or dip them whole in some chocolate or just plain strawberries or another fruit with a little gran marnier sprinkled on it with some powdered sugar.
Then set the table nice with candles and a glass of her favorite wine or champagne or prosecco.
celiac..not fun, but, theres lots of things out there..:
Think of things made from scratch..this is the safest.. hmmm
there are rice noodles, at health food store & you can make a spagheti, but make sauce from scratch, as they often do make the sauces with wheat, or “spices” & Who knows what tha heck is in those “spices”. No Modified Starches!!! they have things with funny titles..dont trust it!
DONT get her anything that says “spices” please..she may blow up..or have a worse reaction.
dont get here canned foods, if its not simple to read.
WATCH OUT for SALAD DRESSINGS that say Gluten Free- they still add Msg, Modified Starches, “seasonings”, etc!!
For salad dressing to be safe & NOT shut down her immune system in the process, make a salad dressing, try vinegar & oil, & your own natural seasonings that are basic ones -not from a packet of a mixture!
when something says Gluten free, watch out anyways..cause they have ways of sneaking some things in..you dont want to test on her.
* Salmon & rice, with lemon juice, Real butter, a little olive oil drizzled, salt pepper= really good, & filling & brain food:)= she iwll feel better (if she likes Salmon) cause with celiac your brain is effected!:(
* Rice noodles with something like Stir Fry- MAKE your self, NO Seasoning Packets of Who-knows-what!! No regular Soy sauces-they have wheat! You Have to read the labels, cause theres one in my Food4Less stroe that doesnt have wheat in it..
No MSG either..
* dont do a cream sauce i guess.
* maybe find Gluten Free Flour & fry some chicken:) if it can be done WITHOUT eggs..oops forgot..look it up.
* baked veggies with Real butter