Ube is just a happy color – thank goodness for its sultry, cozy, vibrant purple to light up so many desserts and menu items. These gluten free ube panna cotta are also dairy free (!!!) because coconut already pairs perfectly with this queen of purple yams and because Kendra tries to avoid dairy so we figured we should have some dedicated dairy free desserts (how’s that for alliteration) on here that she could make more often than others. This recipe was part of our string of wildly successful panna cotta adventures about a month or so ago – when I actually got the chance to visit her and the family…
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Healthy Gluten Free Banana Pancakes
Pancakes. I have a long history with these thinnest of cakes, the ultimate breakfast food (at least here in the west). When I was going through the entire rigamarole of tests and food allergies blood draws and biopsies back in 6th grade, we tried everything under the sun in terms of diets. No, I wasn’t trying to lose any weight as an already-under-average 11 year old, but heck if we weren’t trying to figure out why I wasn’t gaining weight, and food had a lot to do with it. One “diet” we tried on for size (I think only for a couple of months but it felt like a YEAR…
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Pistachio Snow Cookies
My mother makes a mean chocolate crinkle cookie, and a lemon version as well. Whether you call them crinkle, earthquake, or snow cookies, they’re one of the most visually delightful cookies with satisfyingly geometric splits and cracks that come from the dough being rolled in copious amounts of powdered sugar before baking and melting into this white-clad form. The earthquake title was recently brought to my attention by a coworker who only knew them by that name – but, as we’ve referenced before, a rose by any other name… This pistachio version looks quite similar, except for the telltale green hue that comes from heaps of ground the ground green…
