{"id":941,"date":"2009-12-20T08:59:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T07:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:53:27","slug":"a-gluten-free-christmas-day-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/a-gluten-free-christmas-day-20\/","title":{"rendered":"A gluten free Christmas: Day 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are you going to have for a celebratory Christmas breakfast?<\/p>\n<p>When we get together for a big family Christmas (expecting 25 this year), we often have a glass of Buck&#8217;s Fizz (fizzy wine and orange juice) and croissants &#8211; with extra cereals\/toast available for those who are hungry!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/celebration1.jpg\" alt=\"celebration\" title=\"celebration\" width=\"340\" height=\"226\" align=\"right\"\/>On Boxing Day, we&#8217;ll be having a bigger brunch, which will probably include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>scrambled eggs<\/li>\n<li>smoked salmon<\/li>\n<li>kedgeree<\/li>\n<li>sausages<\/li>\n<li>bacon<\/li>\n<li>baked beans<\/li>\n<li>mushrooms<\/li>\n<li>tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>scotch pancakes<\/li>\n<li>waffles and maple syrup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This way, the vegetarians, the pescatarians and the full English breakfast fans can all find something they can eat. No vegans in our family &#8211; yet.<\/p>\n<p>Those living gluten free will also be able to eat this, because we&#8217;ll make sure that the gluten traps &#8211; the croissants, the sausages, the baked beans, the scotch pancakes and the waffles &#8211; will all be gluten free. Many things on the list are naturally gluten free (salmon, eggs, vegetables, maple syrup). For those that are not, here are our alternative plans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>croissants are tricky. You can buy gluten free croissants, though they&#8217;re not very light and flaky. My daughter likes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfdiet.com\/\">pain au chocolat from Lifestyle<\/a>.  We&#8217;ve also used the <a href=\"http:\/\/glutenfree.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/09\/gluten-free-homemade-croissants\/\">Gluten Free Gobsmacked recipe for croissants<\/a> with some success.<\/li>\n<li>I discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=901\">buying gluten free sausages<\/a>a couple of days ago; we always buy Heinz baked beans because they&#8217;ve always marked their tins up really clearly.<\/li>\n<li>scotch pancakes: usually we just substitute gluten free flour for normal flour, but I&#8217;ve found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imglutenfreebaby.co.uk\/2009\/11\/gluten-free-scotch-or-american-pancakes.html\">recipe for gluten free scotch pancakes<\/a> from I&#8217;m Gluten Free Baby using runny honey that looks excellent.<\/li>\n<li>waffles: I&#8217;ll be using my waffle maker, and my usual recipe, because I&#8217;ve not found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=424\">perfect gluten free waffle recipe<\/a> yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you going to have for a celebratory Christmas breakfast? 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On Boxing Day, we&#8217;ll be having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163,1],"tags":[61,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gf-christmas","8":"category-living-gluten-free","9":"tag-breakfast","10":"tag-christmas","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}