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Looking for good recipes for Alpha-gal people

 
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So we live in tick country and after many treatments for Lymes disease (never properly diagnosed but treated because they couldn't figure out what else could be making us sick) did we have a scary night in the ER after an anaphylaxis attack. We were lucky to have a nurse who also had a family member with Alpha-gal and recommended we find an allergist to test for it. Test came back with extremely high levels hence the anaphylaxis. After eliminating mammalian meat and dairy, we also discovered we had to look at medications and other items in our house to switch over to vegan friendly items to prevent any cross contamination.
So after all of that, we still love to eat meat. We've began an all "fins and feather" diet. Unfortunately grocery stores only carry chicken and turkey and various fish. For the fish we have found plenty of recipes and different ways to eat it to our liking, but we are kinda getting sick of just eating chicken. We've recently decided to raise quail and some other birds since we just recently bought some land. Are there any good books out there for eating wild fowl? We can't cook in butter and try to avoid seed oils (nut allergies),so does anyone have any good ideas?
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Tangentially related, but I stopped being able to eat beef and pork around the age 20 or so. In my case the doctor diagnosed IBS, which as far as I can tell is a catchall for you shouldn't eat it because it makes you feel unwell. The result is I have a long history of not eating pork and beef, so my alternatives might work for you as well.

Took a while but I don't miss either anymore. I eat a lot of chicken and fish, especially sardines, salmon, mackeral, various "white fish" like pollock and cod, but also stuff you don't see in the US like amberjack, bonito, pacific saury, freshwater eel, and tons of others I can't think of right now.

I also like other seafoods like shrimp, scallops, oysters, octopus, squid, and others.

Seafood is a spectacular realm of culinary creativity and the joys of it are endless. It just depends on what you have access to.

As far as fowl go, duck is a favorite. I used to eat a lot of turkey when I was in the US, but it's not produced locally. I've enjoyed pheasant and quail, but I can't say I prefer them to chicken, turkey or duck. Though quail eggs, while small, are delightful, especially when prepared in my favorite sushi: tsukimi natto gunkan


I've also learned to enjoy a variety of beans, seeds, grains, and pseudo grains for nutritional variety. Hummus is a wonderful way to get bean protein.
 
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Hank Shaw's website and books are a good place to look: https://honest-food.net/
Duck, Duck, Goose is his first book on cooking wild fowl: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/225435/duck-duck-goose-by-hank-shaw/
Pheasant, Quail, Cottontail is on upland birds and small game: https://www.huntgathercook.shop/products/pheasant-quail-cottontail
He has several other books as well as a well illustrated blog full of recipes, mostly of wild game or foraged food.
 
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Although I don't have any cookbook recommendations for wild fowl, this alpha gal seconds the "holy cow I'm sick of eating chicken" sentiment!
 
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I really enjoyed guinea hen when we butchered a few.  Muscovy duck breast is much like venison or roast beef.
 
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