Comfort & Joy

What’s more difficult than discovering you have to eliminate an entire category of food from you diet? Trying to do it over the holidays.

If you’re like us, we identify so many of our joyful moments with food. So learning that the staple dishes for Thanksgiving and Christmas are off the table feels devastating. Family favorites and tried-and-true traditional recipes containing pork, beef, lamb, and, dairy are unintentionally flaunted at gatherings, sprawled across magazines in the checkout lines, and proudly displayed online.

So if you need an expert on eliminating foods from your diet, look no further. Candice has been gluten-free since 2009, and she is still the best baker I know despite that fact. Following her alpha-gal syndrome diagnosis in early 2019, she has been further modifying recipes to feed herself — and very often me (!) — food that isn’t going to send either of us running for our EpiPens.

In light of the holiday season, we’re going to share with you some gluten-free/mammal-free recipes that are becoming our new favorites. Keep in mind that you can substitute ingredients if you don’t have an issue with gluten or dairy.

After several unappealing attempts at stuffing, Candice discovered a Tyler Florence recipe in the Food Network Magazine for Fig-Glazed Roast Turkey with Cornbread Stuffing. Over the years, she modified the recipe to be gluten-free, dairy-free, and mammal-free. Why is it so good? Because not only does the perfect combination of sweet and savory bring a sense of comfort, but also excitement over a recipe that’s worthy of becoming a new tradition. Try it HERE.

🐟🐓❤️ Debbie & Candice