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Apr 1

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Lemon Pudding with Coconut Oat Crumble

dairy free lemon pudding| dailywaffle

I’m half Japanese, so tofu has been part of my diet from the get-go. But it was walled off in savory recipes – stir fries, doused with shoyu and green onions, bobbing around in miso soup. Never in sweets. Never. When tofu ice creams came on the scene, I wrinkled my nose. I could eat dairy no problem, why would I eat tofu ice cream? Fast forward to this past November, when I went in for a blood test and came out with slightly elevated cholesterol levels. I wasn’t in the danger zone, but it sure gets you thinking about what you’re eating, especially when you thought you were doing pretty well. It’s gotten me to consider things I never would have before, like this lemon pudding with coconut oat crumble.

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Oct 23

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Cookie Time: Chocowalnos aka German Chocolate Cookies

Every Christmas, I find myself making the same cookies. For every other holiday, it’s ok to add new dishes, but at Christmas, there’s something comforting about tradition, about knowing that there will be snickerdoodles and chocolate crinkles and that my mom will probably send me a batch of candy cane cookies. But if tradition is just something you’ve done more than once, these chocolaty, coconutty, walnut-studded “brownie meets German chocolate cake” cookies are going to be a new holiday tradition.

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Aug 22

Chewy Chocolate Macaroons


If you like coconut, there’s almost no better use for it than macaroons. It’s such a pure coconut experience, colored only by maybe a little almond extract or in my case, a good dose of lemon zest. But after spying this chewy chocolate macaroon recipe in Terry Walters’ Clean Start, those pure thoughts went by the wayside. There seemed no reason not to go full bore, mixing in a good bit of chocolate, rather than just doing a dip.
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May 29

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Score One for School Food: Ranger Cookies or Flying Saucers

Last week, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she had a craving for the cheese rolls that our high school cafeteria sold in the mornings and during passing period. That made me remember the big flat chocolate chip cookies — greasy with shortening, a little underbaked, and only 50 cents (or was it 25?).  It’s funny, because when it comes to school food — public school, anyway — there isn’t much that anyone remembers fondly. It’s easier to remember the horrors that the cafeteria churned out — ever heard of a taco snak (yes, s-n-a-k) burrito?
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