Party foods I can eat

[alias_sqbr]

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What I can't eat



Easy:
fresh fruit that isn't too acidic, eg melons, grapes, cherries, most tropical fruits except pineapple
fresh vegetables except red capsicum
(salted) nuts except pine nuts (but who brings those to a party?)
marshmallows
Meringues/plain pavlova

Requires some attention:
Arnotts Hundreds and thousands biscuits
Mondo plain or nut nougat
Most hummous (unless it has chili or cheese in it etc)
Coles or Woolworths home brand crunchy bread eg Vienna, tiger loaf
Sunrice Apple and cinnamon rice thins

Have to cook yourself:
Hazelnut macaroons (nut meal, egg white, sugar)
grilled japanese style meat (meat, honey, ginger, garlic, onion, soy sauce, cooked mirin)
sponge cake (eggs, flour, sugar)
roast meat

Here's some more detail.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

This might be a stupid question, but what goes in the sponge? I'm assuming not custard, although I might manage that with rice milk. And not chocolate anything given that chocolate isn't in the easy. Fruit and sugar are both listed in separate places, so jam would be yes? Lemon curd and passionfruit fail on the too acidic. What about kaya (which I think is coconut and sugar? And as you have listed hazelnut macaroons but not coconut would indicate not)?

And you list flour, with the implication of not soy. Is corn based okay? Sponge typically uses very refined flour, but I'm not sure beyond that - I think I typically use arrowroot.

And a last question - is there a starch to go with hummus item that I've completely missed in the list, or is it a goes on veggies option?

[fred_mouse]

I lied about the last question. Are the food combinations hard and fast? For example, I have a biscotti recipe that is egg white, sugar, flour and almond meal/almonds, which combines bits of the more complicated category. There is no guarantee that I would remember to make hem though, even if they are fine.

And from the plain nougat, that means no preserved fruit, which might give me the answer to my previous question about jam, it it were not too late at night for coherent thought.

[alias_sqbr]

Nothing, I eat the sponge plain! Jam is ok in small amounts. But yeah, coconut is not.

Corn and what flour are both fine. I think arrowroot is ok, I haven't eaten enough to be sure.

The humouss goes with veggies or Coles/Woolworths crusty bread.

Those biscotti sound fine! I can eat SOME preserved fruit, but try not to go overboard. Also, I just don't like it in nougat :D