Wheat free food

[Mairzydotes]

I am giving a dinner party for 10 people next week to celebrate my husband's 80th birthday.
I am a good cook (not conceited.. cooking is my one claim to being a good housewife!!) but don't want to spend all day in the kitchen.
One of our guests has a wheat intolerance, so I need to be careful.
Is there a wheat free bread? Or can I make any? I have a bread maker.
I am planning on starting with quails eggs, and antepasta from Lidl and Waitrose.
Ideas, please for a special dinner with not too much preparation involved. At 76 the days of knocking something up in five minutes are long gone.
I can make a selection of desserts, so no problem there.
Help, please!
Mairzeydotes

[Jugglering]

Here's a recipe for gluten free white sodabread (which uses rice flour and tapioca flour instead of wheatflour) and is probably quicker to make than a yeasted bread if you are short on time:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/whi tesodabread_74765.shtml

And here is a white yeasted bread which uses rice flour and cornmeal (which you may well already have in your storecupboard):-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/whi teyeastbread_74766.shtml

For the main meal, just substitute any wheat flour with rice or gram flour. I'd be tempted to buy a small bag of Doves Farm gluten free flour and use that instead for everybody's food not just the wheat intolerant guest.

For something a bit different for the main meal (and is quite nice served up at room temperature, after being cooked) is ratatouille, which you could serve up with rice or some of the yeast bread made above into little rolls. Ratatouille is very easy to make, just hunt your vegetables down (onions, courgettes, aubergine, sweet peppers & garlic, chop em up, saut� in oil and a few spices, add tomatoes and herbs and let it talk to itself for a little while.

Another easy recipe would be stuffed peppers (parboiled sweet peppers stuffed with cooked rice, onions, mushrooms and other finely chopped veg, flavourings etc), topped with some smoked Applewood cheese and heated up in the oven. (suitable for everyone who likes veg and cheese !)

I'm sure other Foodie buffs will be able to give you some special dinner recipes which include meat (sorry, I'm veggie).

[squirtle]

Tesco do wheat free breads - if you didn't want to bake any.....just for your information.........enjoy your meal.