Thanks everyone who had suggestions! They helped a lot.
Here's the final menu: Braised Turkey with Popcorn Stuffing - the popcorn stuffing (and gravy thickened with pureed carrot, also in the recipe) were actually really good! The popcorn stuffing was amazingly close to the kind that comes in the box, the carrot gravy wasn't much like gravy-gravy but was still good. If you know someone on a low-histamine diet, this works, and she was delighted at being able to have stuffing after living on basically meat and vegetables for a long time. The chicken was also good! We left out some of the spices and all of the fresh vegetables other than carrots, and it was excellent.
Herb-Roasted Carrots - she could have most green herbs but very few dry spices, so I went for this for hopefully a different flavor even if the same vegetable. Went light on the oil, but we also accidentally bough half shredded carrots so it ended up with the shredded carrots packed around the larger ones, which was a really good texture? I've had texture issues with roast carrots before, so would definitely accidentally do that again.
raspberry sauce - this was improvised from other recipes, but I basically added a cup of chicken broth and some salt to 6 oz raspberries, and then just boiled them down until they were a sauce-like texture. It made a perfectly acceptable sauce for the meat, and good color for the table!
baked sweet potatoes - these weren't on the list of things she'd been eating but some internet research implied they might be okay and she wanted to add something new, so we did. using the old family recipe of "just bake them till they're done". They were huge and took forever to cook so we didn't get them until after the rest of the food was gone, but we're pretending that was on purpose, so that the new food was separate from the known-okay ones. (If I did this again I would quarter them first.)
Then I attempted raspberry ice by pureeing frozen raspberries and ice, but I think none of the devices we had were strong enough to manage the puree, so that was the one thing that failed. Nobody really needed dessert at that point, though. I guess if one thing had to fail that was the best one.
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Date: 2021-12-04 05:51 am (UTC)Here's the final menu:
Braised Turkey with Popcorn Stuffing - the popcorn stuffing (and gravy thickened with pureed carrot, also in the recipe) were actually really good! The popcorn stuffing was amazingly close to the kind that comes in the box, the carrot gravy wasn't much like gravy-gravy but was still good. If you know someone on a low-histamine diet, this works, and she was delighted at being able to have stuffing after living on basically meat and vegetables for a long time. The chicken was also good! We left out some of the spices and all of the fresh vegetables other than carrots, and it was excellent.
Herb-Roasted Carrots - she could have most green herbs but very few dry spices, so I went for this for hopefully a different flavor even if the same vegetable. Went light on the oil, but we also accidentally bough half shredded carrots so it ended up with the shredded carrots packed around the larger ones, which was a really good texture? I've had texture issues with roast carrots before, so would definitely accidentally do that again.
raspberry sauce - this was improvised from other recipes, but I basically added a cup of chicken broth and some salt to 6 oz raspberries, and then just boiled them down until they were a sauce-like texture. It made a perfectly acceptable sauce for the meat, and good color for the table!
baked sweet potatoes - these weren't on the list of things she'd been eating but some internet research implied they might be okay and she wanted to add something new, so we did. using the old family recipe of "just bake them till they're done". They were huge and took forever to cook so we didn't get them until after the rest of the food was gone, but we're pretending that was on purpose, so that the new food was separate from the known-okay ones. (If I did this again I would quarter them first.)
Then I attempted raspberry ice by pureeing frozen raspberries and ice, but I think none of the devices we had were strong enough to manage the puree, so that was the one thing that failed. Nobody really needed dessert at that point, though. I guess if one thing had to fail that was the best one.
fruit salad - of all the fruits she could eat