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!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Our National Anthem

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning fellow cubevillians!

[Kitty Mittens]

That was so lovely, Kathy! I'm thankful I was here long enough to see it; how beautiful.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Yippee! Stu's home!!

Hi Stu!! Thank you for serving this great nation of ours.
Prayers answered: you are safely home from Afghanistan. Thanks to Brad and Graham too.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, Robert, for your service to our country.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, Sgt, for your service to our country.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Peggy, Lukes Mom.

Thank you, Luke, for your service to our country, and prayers
for your safety and success of mission.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Boys!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Girls!

[Kathy in Alaska]

You're welcome. I love Bless This House. Well, I'm face down on my keyboard. Gotta get some sleep. See you later today.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Monday !

Have a cup while you Freep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[Kitty Mittens]

Sleep well, kind friend, in the Palm of God's Hand. :)

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. How's it going?

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your continued service to our country.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, tonk. How's it going?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Old Sarge]

Greetings, Canteeners, Troops,
and All the Ships at Sea!

And Happy Monday to all my fellow residents of Prairie Dog Village! Sarge is back in the cubes, after an up-and-down roller-coaster Drill Weekend. Sarge had to do, for the first time, the duty of Casualty Assistance NCO, so that was not fun. Drill was Recovery from the last AT, so that was not fun, either.

And to make things REALLY strange, I get up this morning, and I'm wondering, why are there shamrocks all over my keyboard again?!?

Well, anyway, in keeping with the thread today, Sarge enjoys one great seasonal (but for Sarge, ANYTIME is good) dessert, and that's Pumpkin Pie and Coffee! Especially after a hearty meal of ribeye (ultra-rare) and potatoes (real & mashed), washed down with a cold longneck.

So now, on to the Personals:

TONKIN/FAWNN: This looks like it'll be a really great thread today, Skipper! And Auntie, I "smell" your hand at work, don't I?? (G)

BLACKIE: Hoping your convalescence is proceeding according to plan...

TO MY BRETHREN UNDER ARMS: Today, like every day, all y'all are welcome here to this place we call home. The Canteen is yours, and mine, and the place for all to see, and laugh, and just have a good time. Bear that in mind, as your duty day goes on.

Sarge will be in the area all day, so Let's Have Fun!

SARGE

[beachn4fun]

I know how you feel. We've lost two dogs over the years.

[tomkow6]

 

SALUTE!