Gluten free entertaining ideas.......

[Lucy]

Girls, you are amazing: thank you so much: this is just exactly what I need to get my creative cooking juices flowing!

With my 3 littlies, it has been a LONG time since we entertained and I went all out........I mean, we entertain all the time, but it is usually friends and kids over for a BBQ....but I used to go "all out" really regularly & I MISS IT!!!!

So next weekend is probably the first time I am going "all out" for about 3 years.........so KEEP THESE IDEAS COMING!!!

Thank you so much all.........you are inspiring me and I am enthusiastic!

[Roryrory]

I used to go "all out" really regularly & I MISS IT!!!!

Me too!!! I was looking at my lovely set of fish knives the other day, and dreaming about using my little individual souffle dishes - all such a blurr now! I have even dropped my subscriptions to Gourmet Traveller and Vouge Entertaining

Make sure you tell us what you end up cooking so we can live vicariously through your dinner party

[Rouge]

Awww you guys You should have date night once a week and go all out, or do what we do and have some friends over once a week. We have the kids godparents over on a Sunday and I get to go crazy!

[Lucy]

We have the kids godparents over on a Sunday and I get to go crazy!

Similar...we have close friends over at least once a week...BUT my problem is that Olivia and Charlie and Lexie want to "help"..argghhhhh! The are actually pretty good, and I have trained them well in the kitchen......BUT, you know what it's liek when you just want to spend allday preparing, zoning out whilst you chop serenly, with some lovely chilled out music on, and maybe a glass of wine as you prepare?!

My world is SO removed from that at the monent!

Make sure you tell us what you end up cooking so we can live vicariously through your dinner party

Rory, I will.......I have ideas bubbling & evolving.....and recipe books around my feet......I will post my menu when I make the final decision, and maybe even post snaps once I am done!

[Rouge]

LOL Lucy thats what husbands are for To take the kids out to the park or wash the car whilst you enjoy all that is involved in the art of food preparation.

Trust me I need private space when it comes to my kitchen luckily the kids know when its their cooking time and mine LOL!

[christy]

Mexican with corn tortillas. You can get white corn tortillas at Coles or Woollies and there isn't any gluten in them. I use them for quesadillas and tortilla soup (in the slow cooker recipes or in the soup recipes I think...). Yummo...

Also we do a lamb balsamic salad with grilled haloumi that is GF, rice noodle vietnamese beef salad, vietnamese rolls...BBQ dinners are generally GF as long as the sausages you buy are. I make my own rissoles and my butcher does everything GF.