Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner that provides gluten free options can be a challenging task, particularly for a cook who has little experience with a “mixed group” — one with both wheat-eaters and people who live gluten free. The challenge is even worse for the person who has little cooking experience of any sort.

I’ll be using You Tube videos to help you meet this challenge comfortably and competently. Some You Tube demonstrations are excellent — the recipes have been carefully selected and the presentations have been planned with equal care. (Let’s face it, some of the demonstrators and their videos are absolutely worthless, but I will not be referring you to them). Today, I invite you to relax and enjoy two demonstrations on how to roast and carve your holiday turkey.

This is the first in a series of articles. Today I invite you to relax and enjoy two demonstrations that teach you how to roast and carve a turkey. Keep in mind that your turkey is naturally gluten free unless it has been injected with gluten toxic material to make it self-basting, more moist, or simply more expensive. Check into this carefully when you are shopping.

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The second demonstration shows you how to roast and carve a turkey and how to prepare gravy to serve with it. The demonstrator mentions “just plain flour” but I can tell you from person experience that cornstarch works equally well. Serve the same gravy to everyone. No one will know or care that it is gluten free.

In the next session, we will talk more about preparing gluten free gravy. Click here for a summary of all the Thanksgiving-related information that is available at this site.