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You can find a recipe at http://bakingsheet.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much. Kitchen is now officially on my daily "must read" list.

Cook's Illustrated has a recipe for this... You cannot go wrong with their stuff. It may be somewhat elaborate but it's well worth it.

Great dessert!

I'm vegetarian and don't eat gelatin, hence this critical question: For many years, I have had dreams of the deliciousness that might be a bit a panna cotta in my mouth, so does anyone have a recommended substitution or recipe that can exclude the gelatin?

Any answers would be very much appreciated!

Panna cotta is such a great dessert. People love things in little cups! So when you're having a dinner party, it's so easy to make this the day before and leave it in the fridge. People are impressed, less stress for you, everybody wins.

I don't like it very sweet, so I use a basic formula of ½ envelope unflavored gelatin to two cups liquid to 1/4 cup sugar. Like SK's recipe, I soften the gelatin in a bit of the liquid, heat the rest, then whisk the two together and pour into cups.

One nice thing is you can really use any liquid - I've used purees of mango or strawberry and made up two cups liquid with some cream added. Mango panna cotta hardly needs any extra sugar.

I have never tried it, but I think that agar, made from seaweed, can be used instead of gelatin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar)

Elise at Simply Recipes hosted the Is My Blog Burning event with a "jelled" theme, and several of the submissions used agar or pectin. Her roundup, with pics, might be a good place to gather ideas: http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001102imbb15_has_my_blog_jelled_round_up.php

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for vegetarian panna cotta subsitute agar agar made from seaweed ( found at asian markets or health food stores) for gelatine. little less of agar were geletine is called for