Dreaming of a Wheat Christmas #2 - Christmas on a Spoon

Almost-mother-in-law catered for me and my fiance last Christmas day. It was my first wheat free Christmas and I wasn't really looking forward to watching everyone eat mince pies and cake.

Almost-mother-in-law is a fantastic cook and has been invaluable to me in my quest in finding amazing wheat free alternatives to food. What could have been a pretty rubbish dinner turned out to be lovely, and the main reason for this was the best pudding I've ever had.

Christmas on a Spoon (or port and cranberry jelly).

I have managed to get the secret recipe so I'm going to share it as a Christmas pressie to all the wheat dodgers in the land!

I haven't had a go yet, but I'm totally making about 10 batches when I finish work. It's really easy but very impressive as it tastes so delicious. It looks great served in James Bond style martini glasses.

Ingredients

• 1 Pint cranberry Juice
• 3/4 pint Port
• 3 strips Orange peel
• juice of 1 orange
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 3 1/2 ozs caster sugar
• 1 packet of low sugar raspberry jelly (you can use 20g gelatine instead if you like).

Method

• Simmer all ingredients except jelly or gelatine for about 10/20 mins.
• Add the jelly stirring to dissolve.
• Strain into glasses
• EAT

The other AMAZING dessert on offer that was a sorely missed festive treat was Delia's posh version of a chocolate log. See the recipe for her absolutely gluten and wheat free Squidgy Chocolate Roulade here

More festiveness on it's way, wheat dodgers. Keep checking the blog!

M

Dreaming of a Wheat Christmas #1

Whether you celebrate it or not, There's no escaping Christmas and all of it's forbidden luxurious foods. Cakes. Gingerbread. Mince pies. Christmas Pudding. Even flippin' turkey stuffing!

Well listen up fellow wheat dodgers, this is going to be the best ever Christmas EVER, because I won't have you wandering about looking all sad and hungry at 'the most wonderful time of the year'.

First things first.

Above is a list of what you can have that takes absolutely no effort whatsoever. Why not print it off and give it to everyone you know?! (Just click on it and press print). Sod 'Oh, I don't want to be a fuss'. Us wheat dodgers are not missing out on the fun!

(I'm still trying to find out if the very popular Starbucks Gingerbread Latte is GF by the way. They are very secretive about the ingredients).

If you're mad enough to host Christmas dinner, M&S have a really good Food to Order catalogue that has a key to gluten free items such as the Bronze Turkey. (You may want to get your skates on if you want to order one though). You can pick one up in store.

If you are catering for a coeliac or wheat dodger, you can now order gluten free hampers that will save you trawling around the shops. There is no one store that sells everything so it's a much easier option as seeking out such goodies is a bit of an art form. One option can be found on the Distinctly British website.

Over the next few weeks I will be posting special Wheat Surrender original and adapted recipes for those of you who fancy cooking some lovely Christmas food that wheat eaters won't turn their nose up at.

Ask Santa for some stretchy pants. You're gonna need 'em.

M