Please -- don't break bread together!

We're starting to think about Thanksgiving, our first major holiday without gluten. Thanksgiving is tricky in our family -- actually trickier than Christmas, because we have a more rigid set of foods that we eat on Thanksgiving, without which Thanksgiving seems, well, less complete. Underdone. These include, for my side of the family:

• Green bean cassarole with French fried onions


• Cranberry salad (which, also traditionally, everyone but my dad refuses to eat)


• Mashed potatoes


• Turkey, of course


• Stuffing -- which, depending on the year and the current wisdom of the FDA may or may not be cooked inside the turkey


• Ambrosia, an interloper food added to the table when JFG joined the family


• Pie

Some of these foods pose no problem -- turkey, cranberry salad, mashed potatoes -- but this doesn't really solve the gluten problem since JFG refuses to eat the cranberry salad and the mashed potatoes anyway. Turkey is okay as long as we don't stuff it with bread stuffing.

Green bean cassarole, now that's another story. The whole point is the French's onions, mon cher.