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Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: LadyRexall Date: October 6, 2018, 10:19 am
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So, thanksgiving is at my mils again this year. I’ve been
begging for a week and a half for mil to tell me what I need to
bring. She waited till this morning!!!! :/ tday is tomorrow. So
she tasked me with green beans. The stores are crazy and it’s
last minute so I’m getting hubby to run out and find green
beans. I’m looking for a new recipe as I’m sick of the same old
green beans.
I found one with bacon. Yummy right? Hubby says no because sil
doesn’t like pork (she actually loves it. I’ve seen mil trick
her several times saying pork is really turkey. Sil always says
this is the best turkey ever). My point: it’s one person. So she
doesn’t eat the beans. But hubby pointed out all the other
restrictions it wouldn’t work for.
Restrictions: gluten free, peanut allergy, not liking pork,
vegan, vegetarian, milk and egg allergy. I’m gf and there’s
always lots of dishes I have to skip over. Does every single
dish have to conform to each and every restriction or is it ok
to put bacon in the beans knowing some people will have to skip
over it?
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: Hmmm Date: October 6, 2018, 10:52 am
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If there is a variety of dishes available, then I think it is
fine for you to make a side dish or dessert that would be
skipped by less than a 1/3 of the entire group. But if you have
a vegan, a vegetarian, and a non-pork eater, that's 3 that would
skip the beans. So my personal, made up on my own rule would be
if you were having 12 or more guests than brining a dish that 9
or more would eat would be fine. But I would make sure someone
else was bringing a similar type of green vegetable that the
non-meat eaters could enjoy.
If you do need to go with a meatless recipe, here's a simple
one.
Blanch about 2 lbs green beans for about 3 min. May need to do
in batches
Mix up 4 TB honey, 2 TB soy sauce and about a TB of minced
garlic. Add red pepper flakes to taste.
Toss with the blanched green beans and then spread out on a
cookie sheet and bake in a hot oven for about 10 min. Or you can
cook them in a skillet till they are glazed. May need to add
some salt if your soy sauce is low sodium.
I've not tried this recipe but am making it tonight to go with
steaks. It's roasted green beans with parmesan and basil.
HTML https://www.rachelcooks.com/2015/04/13/roasted-green-beans-with-parmesan-and-basil/
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: LadyRexall Date: October 6, 2018, 11:16 am
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That actually gave me a lot of insight. It’s only 3 out of 20
that would skip it. Hubby still nixed it :( I’ll definitely give
your recipe a read through though because I have all the
ingredients at home, save for the green beans!! Thanks!
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: LadyRexall Date: October 6, 2018, 11:18 am
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As a funny side, I’m doing steaks this afternoon for late
lunch!!!
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: LadyRexall Date: October 6, 2018, 11:49 am
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Apparently I’m still on my search. Hubby thought this recipe was
“weird”
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: lakey Date: October 6, 2018, 11:57 am
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[quote]Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
« Reply #2 on: Today at 11:16:31 am »
Quote
That actually gave me a lot of insight. It’s only 3 out of 20
that would skip it. Hubby still nixed it :( I’ll definitely give
your recipe a read through though because I have all the
ingredients at home, save for the green beans!! Thanks![/quote]
He nixed your idea? Let him handle the side dish. I'm not
kidding. Hand him a cookbook and tell him to get to it.
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: Luci Date: October 6, 2018, 12:25 pm
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You can’t please everybody at the same time, especially twenty.
If most people like it and can eat it, it’s fine. There will be
plenty of other food and it doesn’t hurt to go without a green
vegetable sometimes. I usually take southern style green beans
(onion, bacon and broth, recipe on line)
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: Dazi Date: October 6, 2018, 1:21 pm
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=722.msg15527#msg15527
date=1538841135]
If there is a variety of dishes available, then I think it is
fine for you to make a side dish or dessert that would be
skipped by less than a 1/3 of the entire group. But if you have
a vegan, a vegetarian, and a non-pork eater, that's 3 that would
skip the beans. So my personal, made up on my own rule would be
if you were having 12 or more guests than brining a dish that 9
or more would eat would be fine. But I would make sure someone
else was bringing a similar type of green vegetable that the
non-meat eaters could enjoy.
If you do need to go with a meatless recipe, here's a simple
one.
Blanch about 2 lbs green beans for about 3 min. May need to do
in batches
Mix up 4 TB honey, 2 TB soy sauce and about a TB of minced
garlic. Add red pepper flakes to taste.
Toss with the blanched green beans and then spread out on a
cookie sheet and bake in a hot oven for about 10 min. Or you can
cook them in a skillet till they are glazed. May need to add
some salt if your soy sauce is low sodium.
I've not tried this recipe but am making it tonight to go with
steaks. It's roasted green beans with parmesan and basil.
HTML https://www.rachelcooks.com/2015/04/13/roasted-green-beans-with-parmesan-and-basil/
[/quote]
Just an FYI with this recipe, it is neither gluten free, nor
vegan. So if you do ever make it for this group, they would need
to know.
For those looking at this past like what?
Honey isn't considered vegan. Soy sauce is not gluten free
(unless it specifically states it is, but most commercially
available ones are not).
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: Lula Date: October 6, 2018, 2:07 pm
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[quote]I’ve seen mil trick her several times saying pork is
really turkey.[/quote]
Emphasis mine.
Has nobody tried to put a stop to this? "Tricking" people into
eating against their stated restrictions is cruel at best and
deadly at worst. If I were SIL, I would never eat a dish that
MIL had so much as touched ever again.
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Re: Uggghhhh... too many food restrictions on tday!
By: Dazi Date: October 6, 2018, 2:12 pm
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[quote author=Lula link=topic=722.msg15539#msg15539
date=1538852824]
[quote]I’ve seen mil trick her several times saying pork is
really turkey.[/quote]
And nobody has put a stop to this? "Tricking" people into
eating against their stated restrictions is cruel at best and
deadly at worst.
[/quote]
Yep, I don't eat pork. It's not for religious or taste
preference, but because I'm actually allergic to pork.
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