Green has almost always been my favorite color. Pink was the star of the show when I was in about 1st grade and, upon moving into a new house in Eagle Point, Oregon, I was given the massive responsibility of choosing a color for carpet in my room (out of some of the cheaper options) that my dad installed along with all of the other work my parents did on that house by hand. A deep pink was the winner, though I questioned my choice years later when I was stuck with it and had shifted back into blues and greens (my sister apparently had the foresight to choose a…
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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…
