Pancake Day is coming up! Even though I don’t know much about Mardi Gras, I can’t pass by the opportunity to eat pancakes. I like to call myself a brunch enthusiast, and particularly love pancakes. Whoever thought of cake for breakfast is one sly genius. We’d get along pretty well.

I was experimenting in the kitchen the other day with the purple sweet potato leftover from our tapioca puddings, and ended up with this glorious spread I want to put in and on EVERYTHAAAANG.

In pancakes, on toast, in oatmeal, between cookies, or even off a spoon. After taste-testing, admittedly more than one generous spoonful, I immediately thought of sandwiching it between a stack of pancakes. It’s been much over a month since I last had pancakes so the craving for them was real. I went with my usual fluffy Coconut Flour Pancakes (recipe can be found here) and topped it off with a bit of yogurt, frozen berries, toasted coconut and sliced almonds. Excuse my delayed response as I make my way back down to Earth from breakfast heaven.

Making this purple sweet potato spread is a 1 step process. Literally dump all the ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth. Then taste test 5 times when no one is watching. If you can’t hunt down purple sweet potato, the orange kind will do just fine. You can also try this with pumpkin puree but may want to decrease the amount of coconut milk and increase the sweetness. Add in a bit of pumpkin spice and oh my goodness, spreadable pumpkin pie! Okay, I’ll need to try that after I finish this batch.

I also want to take a moment to thank you all for the positive response and support for my eating disorder testimony. Whether it reminded you about what true health is, or encouraged you on your recovery journey, or caused you to critically think about eating disorders, I’m glad my story touched your hearts.

To our fellow British Columbians, have a wonderful Family Day and Lunar New Year long weekend! I’ll be stuffing myself silly with nian gao (have you tried my perfected baked nian gao?), making radish cake, collecting my red pockets, dimsum-ing with the parents, and catching up with a best friend. Then on Tuesday we can get together for a virtual pancake party! So get yo’ purple sweet potato spread ready for that!