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Make a Gluten-free and Dairy-free Pecan Pie for Thanksgiving

Try our gluten and dairy free pecan pie recipe

Here's a example of our family's favorite gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, corn-free pecan pie!

As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, celiac and food allergy sufferers should consider adding a little pie to their holiday desert menus. We’ve used this recipe every year for the past several years during the holiday season. I finally decided to post it online because it is a top request with our non-allergic family members every year. So if our guests like it, and they can eat anything that they like, then your company will like it too! I’ve made several allergy-friendly alterations to the typical pecan pie’s standard ingredients but the resulting gluten-free dessert tastes very much like the ones you buy in the store …continue reading »


9 Easy Gluten free Holiday Cookie Recipes to Bake this Christmas

These recipes are gluten and corn free & one’s free from the top 8!

free from the top 8, gluten, and corn

This Sunbutter Blossom Recipe from cilie-yack.org is free from the top 8, gluten, and corn!

Here are nine of our favorite holiday cookie recipes. Okay, roll up your sleeves and turn that oven on! What’s Christmas without a few favorite holiday cookie recipes? Over the years we have worked hard to try to recreate familiar family favorites. If you are part of the celiac community there’s no reason you can’t bake a batch or two of these holiday cookie recipes to share with your family and friends. All of our recipes are also good for the Feingold diet and offer helpful tips for folks with corn allergies. So here’s our knockoff list of best allergy-friendly look and taste alike holiday cookie recipes:

Pecan Dreams

Nut Cups

Kolacky Cookies

Tumbprint cookies

Thumbprints

Sunbutter Blossom cookie

Sunbutter Blossoms

Coconutty Fruit Cookies

Tollhouse Cookies

Chocolate Coconut Bars

Chocolate Duplex Cookies GFCF

Chocolate Duplex Cookies

Allergy friendly Pecan Dreams

Pecan Dreams


Gluten, Corn, Soy and Dairy free Pecan Dreams Cookie Recipe

This pecan dreams cookie recipe will melt in your mouth!

Allergy friendly Pecan Dreams

Pecan Dreams

The pecan dreams cookie has always been a childhood favorite for me. I can remember sneaking into the freezer as a child to snatch these shortbread-like cookies in the days before our holiday gatherings. I would go into hiding to eat those pecan dreams so that my mom wouldn’t catch me in the act. Mom often had half her batch of pecan dreams left when it came time to divvy them up as gifts to friends and family or serve them for dessert after the holiday dinner.

She never said a word to me or my brother about the missing pecan dreams cookies.

After my son’s diagnosis in 2007 with celiac disease and his need to go on a strict gluten and corn free diet, we had to stop making this family favorite. Over the years I have attempted to recreate it but have never gotten the recipe quite right, until now.

But I am very happy to have found a gluten and corn free pecan dreams cookie recipe that works just great this year! …continue reading »


Gluten free and Dairy free Chocolate Duplex Cookies

Add this Cookie Recipe to your Holiday Party Plate

Chocolate Duplex Cookies GFCF

Chocolate Duplex Cookies

We tried a brand new allergy safe cookie recipe after I picked up the boys from school today. We were all chilled to the bone as we raced through the school parking lot on the way to the car.

The oldest one said to me, “You know, this is the perfect day for cookies and hot chocolate.”

Well, I couldn’t agree more.

After we landed in the door we got started on a quick TGIF cookie that we could all enjoy and even share with our aunt who is gluten free, dairy free, soy free, and corn free.

The recipe itself is very simple. It takes 10 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to bake each batch. These cookies are crispy and not too sweet. …continue reading »


Visit Lil’s Dietary Shop in Chicago for Grand Re-Opening Celebration

Marcie Harveys Lils Dietary Shop in Chicago, IL

Lil’s Dietary Shop on the far southwest side of Chicago in the Mount Greenwood/Beverly neighborhood, has recently expanded. To celebrate, the store is throwing a  Grand Re-Opening kick-off. All customers new and familiar to the store are invited to meet Lil’s new in-store dietitian, Anne Kozek, RD, MS, LDN and enjoy free samples and a friendly chat with Marcie Harvey, the store’s owner and her employees. …continue reading »


Cherrybrook Kitchen’s Gluten-free Dreams Chocolate Cupcakes

cherrybrookcupcakeWe recently tried out Cherrybrook Kitchen’s Gluten-free Dreams Chocolate Cake Mix. We used a single box mix and it produced 12 standard-sized (2 3/4 inch diameter) cupcakes. The directions on the box were simple and the recipe requires no eggs. We opted to avoid the vanilla extract and go with orange oil instead because our corn-intolerant son reacts to commercially made vanilla extracts. Otherwise we followed the directions on the box. The cupcakes baked for 18 minutes.

We topped our cupcakes with a variation of Better Homes and Gardens’ popular fudge frosting recipe. I halved the original recipe, exchanged the butter for spectrum palm oil, and omitted the vanilla again.  My version required more water and I utilized the microwave to get the right consistency.

Our family really enjoyed the cupcakes. The box mix from Cherrybrook Kitchen is a really delicious dark, bittersweet cake, and the frosting is a thick, fudge-like, very sweet but not sticky topping. I personally found the frosting to be a bit sweet for me but the boys unequivocally objected. They thought it was just perfect. We will definitely make this again. …continue reading »


Joel Stein of the L.A. Times Insults Parents of Allergic Children

Some reporters just don’t get it. Joel Stein is on that list. On Jan. 9th he posted a commentary at the L.A. Times that would make any parent of a child with allergies skin crawl. Perhaps he was trying to be funny.
It unnerves me that people with media power would abuse it such a reckless way. Folks may read Joel Stein’s piece and think it is perfectly okay to feed your child with allergies the forbidden food because the child’s problem is not his digestive system but a ‘yuppie rich phenomena” that his parents have bought into. …continue reading »


Non-Dairy Crockpot Rice Pudding

rice puddingMy mother-in-law made my kids rice pudding while we were visiting them. She has a knack for making the perfect rice pudding. She diligently stands over the pot and makes sure it doesn’t stick or burn. She cooks it a long time too. At her house it was made with goat milk, but I just can’t savor the taste of goat milk pudding, so I often ate only a few bites. But the kids loved it.

On the day we left she armed me with four bags of pudding rice, the really small, fine beads of rounded pearl rice that make a nice thick pudding. So I got busy experimenting and came up with a recipe that is easy and tasty. …continue reading »