on to the next holiday

Wow! What a month! I was so busy with my birthday and then Thanksgiving that I have had no time to write. I hope all of you GFers out there had a fantastic GF holiday. I know I did. It was my first GF Thanksgiving and my boyfriends amazing mother made that possible. She is such a fantastic cook. We started with these super yummy crackers called Skinny Crisps. They are a low carb, gluten free cracker and believe it or not, they were delicious. We also had shrimp salad stuffed celery. I actually liked the shrimp salad on the crackers :) For dinner, we TURDUCKEN!!! She ordered it from a place in Louisiana. She also made gf cornbread stuffing with sausage, fennel, wild mushrooms and spinach. She dried out gf cornbread for the stuffing and it was super great! My favorite holiday treat is green bean casserole. I was so sad because I thought I wouldn't get any this year :( But once again, Franny came to the rescue and made gf bg casserole. She made a gf mushroom soup and instead of fried onions, she crumbled gf pretzels and sauteed onions. It was very clever and very delicious. We also made my favorite recipe of Yukon gold potatoes and yams Au gratin with Gruyère. All the food was amazing. I wish I could eat all the left overs myself! Last but not least, she made lemon curd pudding. This is something she is required to make ANY time I am in California because she makes it the best. I helped this time and we experimented with gf flour. We used Gluten Free Pantry flour and it was a little thicker this time and didn't brown at the top. Also, it did not have that runny pudding texture I love so much. The recipe called for 6 Tb spoons of flour. I think next time I will either try a different brand of flour or use 1/2 the flour. The meal was so wonderful. I was surrounded with people I adore and doing the thing I love the most- eating. Next- CHRISTMAS!!!!