"Jude" > wrote in message
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> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>> "Jude" > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>> > My nephew is coming for Thanksgiving. He's allergic to milk solids -
>> > not lactose intolerant. meaning, he can't have milk, cream cheese,
>> > ricotta, any basic cow cheeses, yogurt, etc. He CAN, however, have
>> > butter, which is pure butterfat, and heavy cream, as long as I read the
>> > labels for whey or milk solids. And he can have soy and goat products.
>> >
>> > So.
>> > One thing I love for the holidays is a root-vegetable gratin, layers
>> > of parsnip, turnip, rutabega, with swiss cheese and onions and cream. I
>> > was thinking about adapting this to use goat cheese - I got a goat
>> > gouda at TJs when I was shopping. But I'm wondering f anyone has any
>> > tips for me. The only goat cheese I've used before is a chevbre.
>> > Anything that will surprise me? Weird melting qualities? Curdled
>> > appearance to the dish?
>> >
>> > And another idea. Does anyone know if they sell a goat ricotta
>> > anywhere? TJs did not have anyting even close, i was hoping. Neither
>> > does my health food store and we don't have whole foods/wild oats/big
>> > natural markets around here, sadly. I googled it and foudn lots of
>> > recipes, but one thing I do not have time for is to make fresh ricotta
>> > so i can make a ricotta-cranberry tart for Thanksgiving. Far too many
>> > other things to make.
>> >
>> > And third, any recipe suggestions that you may have that are great
>> > ideas for him, I'd love to know. His brother is lactose intolerant, I'm
>> > mostly vegetarian, my dad hates all vegetables except for green peas,
>> > mom is allergic to cashews and almonds........so it will be an
>> > interesting Thanksgiving!
>> >
>>
>> I can easily envision a host of dishes for Thanksgiving that involve
>> absolutely no dairy products of any kind. You can, too. Matter of fact,
>> other than the onion dip required to keep football corpses in their state
>> of
>> torpor, I don't think I've EVER had a dairy product in a Thanksgiving
>> dinner. Oh wait...there was one: A relative once told her assembled
>> victims
>> that in a bowl containing 5 lbs of mashed potatoes, she'd added a pound
>> of
>> butter. She had bypass surgery last year.
>>
>> Other than that, no dairy.
>
> You don't use milk or half and half in your mashed potaotes?
>
> What about cheesecake for dessert - pumpkin cheesecake, a standard, or
> creamed onions, or the cheese in many of my casseroles (zucchini
> casserole uses cheddar, my wild rice stuffing cooks in broth and half
> and half, scalloped corn genereally ha cheese or cream as well)?
>
> You wanna be helpful and offer something specific, or is this one of
> those W-O-B posts?
>

OK - canned milk in the pumpkin pie. I forgot about that. I've never added
anything to mashed potatoes except salt, pepper and finely grated & sauteed
onions. I know some people grease them up, though. As far as the other
things you've mentioned, it sounds like you've got the hots for a
cardiologist, but can't figure out a good way to ask him out on a date.