FReeper Canteen ~ What is your favorite dessert? ~ August 23 2004

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~ MONDAY FAVORITES ~
This week: What is your favorite dessert?

In our continuing series about your favorites, we ask this week about food. We chose this topic for the most obvious of reasons--we all like eating. Instead of wasting time eating something nutritious, we skip to dessert. After all, that's the most important part of the meal. So? Post your favorite dessert and a picture on the thread. If you can't reach us via Freepmail, email us at canteenusa@canteenusa.com . By the way, you can put more than one favorite dessert. These things can be hard sometimes. We don't want to stress you.

~ Dessert Exhibit A~
~ Cookies ~
Don't see your favorite dessert? Post it on the thread. Also, post the recipe if you'd like. (Click pictures for recipes! If you have a better recipe, please share it with everyone!)


 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

DID YOU KNOW?

Ruth Wakefield invented Chocolate Chip Cookies. Ruth Graves Wakefield graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She worked as a dietitian and lectured on food, until, together with her husband she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn.

Ruth Wakefield prepared the recipes for the meals served to the guests at the Inn and gained local notoriety for her deserts. One of her favorite recipes was for Butter Drop Do cookies. The recipe called for the use of baker's chocolate and one day Ruth found herself without the needed ingredient. She substituted a semi-sweet chocolate bar cut up into bits. However, unlike the baker's chocolate the chopped up chocolate bar did not melt completely, the small pieces only softened.

As it so happened the chocolate bar had been a gift from Andrew Nestle of the Nestle Chocolate Company. As the Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe became popular, sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bar increased. Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield struck a deal. Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its packaging and Ruth Wakefield would have a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate. (Click here to find out more information.)
 

 

Snickerdoodles
 

Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Oatmeal Cookies (Auntie Fawnn's recipe--click the photo!)

~ Dessert Exhibit B~

 

 

Godiva Hot Fudge Brownie Sundaes

 

Cheesecake
 

 

Chocolate Cake

 

~ NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO SHARE ~
Let's Eat!

[SandRat]

The HR bimbo almost tossed her cookies when I dug into a glistening, gooey, soft, steamy toosie roll. -:)

It was worth all the trouble it caused to watch her go back to her office, frantically wade through her encyclopedia of forbidden practices to see what kind of a harrassment lawsuit she could come up with.

[writer33]

You're far too kind. And my service to America was all my pleasure and not enough for this great country. My only hope is to give far more than I recieve.

Thank you for your support of our troops.

[GaretGarrett]

Have you ever read Linda Bowles' column titled "Odie", written on the death of her 16 year-old cockapoo? It's maybe the finest tribute to a pet ever penned. She hasn't written since the terminal illness (which resulted in his death) of her husband ~2 years ago & I miss her every day. But her columns are archived--Creator's Syndicate. "Odie" was reprinted in Jan. 2000. See if you can find her archives via Google.

I too think dogs are a unique "tender mercy" from God. They're friends, shepherds, protectors, eyes for the blind, ears for the deaf, rescuers of the lost, guardians of children--the list of the services they render humanity is almost endless. They make us laugh (and they know when we're down & need cheering up), they lower blood pressure, let us sleep at night knowing they're on 24 hour watch.......I can't imagine living without one.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks for sharing your favorites, Libertina.

[GaretGarrett]

Against the day your mom can't send you any more fruitcake, check this out & order a small one to try. FULL of Texas pecans (they say how many cups of pecans are in each one--lots), just candied cherries & some pineapple, as I recall. And they're not those yucky gummy icebox-"confection"-type things but a real cake batter barely holding them together.

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The only homemade fruitcake I've ever tasted that can compare is one my mom used to make; think I still have the recipe. Its secret was mashed ripe banana in the batter. You couldn't really identify banana as an ingredient, but it gave the most wonderful moistness & an instantly-aged flavor. But mercy, what a process & an expensive one to boot. You'd better treasure your mother.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Loyalist, and thanks for sharing your favorite.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

t....good looking cakes. Nice job.

[Kathy in Alaska]

What a beautiful Pledge today. Thanks, Hope. Any dirt today?

[SevenofNine]

Well Scotman UK reporting that Paksiten forces busted a group who plan not only blow up Parliament building during the uprest plan smackdown Prez Musarharh of Pakstein

Also another report remember that bust I told you about on Saturday morning Chechen forces being busted by Russia troops well there is report off UK Telegraph that this same group had work out plans not killing Vlad back when 2003 when St. Petersburg celebrate their 300 annivesary also kidnap Dubya and Tony Blair they couldn't get the work in

THANK GOD

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Trillian, for sharing your favorites.

[sushiman]

" CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!! Preferably dark chocolate. Chocolate, cake, chocolate truffles, chocolate mousse, chocolate pudding, chocolate cheesecake, chocolate pie, chocolate brownies (as if there were any other kind), chocolate cookies, chocolate donuts, chocolate fudge, any of the above with chocolate frosting, chocolate ice cream, especially Haagen-Daaz chocolate/ chocolate-chip ice cream. "

I'm with YOU ! But I like my choco ice cream with nuts of any kind mixed in !

[trussell]

Thanks Ma! I'm most impressed by the decoratio of the white/white cake... but I am a chocolate fiend...so the chocolate tasted better to me!! LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

You do good work. Both are good looking. How ya feeling? Work or off Monday?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, I still care, for stopping in with your favorites.

[Euro-American Scum]

Stop! I'm drooling!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, dandi, and thanks for sharing your favorites.

And thank you for your service to America.

[LisaMalia]

Gag - are you kidding me?

I'm going to try to ignore your rude comment, knowing that you have obviously not been schooled in the enjoyment of country cooking. I'm getting ready to post my recipe for Fried Green Tomatoes (upon request), so cover your eyes....:)

[Euro-American Scum]

I'm going to try to ignore your rude comment, knowing that you have obviously not been schooled in the enjoyment of country cooking.

FYI -- We're going to try out your recipe for fruit pizza over Labor Day. It sounds delicious.