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

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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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!

[HopeandGlory]

Good morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners . . .

. . . Oh Lordy, it's Monday again already . . . ;-)

I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

[Trillian]

Homemade almond toffee, cheesecake, double fudge brownie sundaes, annisette flavored biscotti, italian apple pie and so much more..

[SandRat]

For me it's Strawberry Cheesecake.

For Halloween parties this little joy creates the most fun, especially if the party involves young Trick-O-Treaters.

Kitty Litter Cake

A purrfect party cake, made to look like a litter box!

Ingredients:

· 1 box German Chocolate or Spice Cake mix (any brand)
· 1 box White Cake Mix (any brand)
· 1 (1 lb 4 oz) pkg. Vanilla Sandwich Cookies (any brand)
· 1 large pkg. Vanilla Instant Pudding
· Green Food Coloring
· 12 small Tootsie Rolls
· 1 NEW Kitty Litter Box
· 1 NEW Kitty Litter Box Liner
· 1 NEW Pooper Scooper

Directions:

Prepare cake mixes per package directions. Bake them in any shape pan you'd like, you'll be breaking them up later on, so it doesn't matter what they look like. Prepare pudding mix per package directions. Refrigerate until well chilled. You may or may not need the entire package (save the leftovers to eat later on.)

Put the cookies into your food processor (with the filling). Pulse until the cookies are crushed. Don't over-do it, this is suppose to look like kitty litter. Scrape the sides of the processor bowl often, the crumbs tend to stick. You'll need to do this in small batches.
Add a few drops of green food coloring to one cup of the cookie crumbs. (This is the chlorophyll in the kitty litter.) You can put the crumbs into a jar, add the food coloring, and shake until it's fairly well mixed.

When the cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with half of the remaining (uncolored) cookie crumbs and enough of the pudding to make the mixture moist, but not soggy.

Line the kitty litter box with the new liner; add the cake/pudding mixture and spread it out. Unwrap three of the Tootsie Rolls and heat them in the microwave until they are soft and pliable; don’t melt them! Shape blunt ends into slightly curved points (use your imagination). Repeat with three more Tootsie Rolls. Bury the shaped Tootsie Rolls in the cake mixture, allowing some of them to stick out of the top at random intervals. (Again, use your imagination.)

Sprinkle the remaining white cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter the green crumbs lightly over the top. Heat the remaining six Tootsie Rolls, three at a time, in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them over the top of the cake and sprinkling with crumbs from the box.

[The Mayor]

August 22, 2004

August 23, 2004

Train To Finish Strong

Read: 1 Corinthians 9:19-27

I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. —1 Corinthians 9:27

Bible In One Year: Psalms 113-115; 1 Corinthians 6

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Eighty years ago, Eric Liddell electrified the world by capturing an Olympic gold medal in the 400 meters—a race he was not expected to win. Liddell was the favorite at 100 meters, but he had withdrawn from that race after learning the qualifying heats would be on Sunday, a day he observed as one of worship and rest. Instead of lamenting his lost chance in the 100, he spent the next 6 months training for the 400—and set a new Olympic record.

Paul used a sports metaphor to emphasize the Christian's need for spiritual discipline. "Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things" (1 Corinthians 9:25), that is, goes into strict training. "Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown." Paul longed to remain faithful to Christ because he wanted to bring the message of salvation to others (vv.19,27).

Throughout Liddell's life, he disciplined himself spiritually each day by spending time in God's Word and in prayer. He remained faithful until he died of a brain tumor in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

Strengthened by the grace and power of God, Eric Liddell ran well and finished strong in the race of life. And so can we. —David McCasland

To win the race of life in Christ,
This must become our daily goal:
To trust in God for grace and strength,
For discipline and self-control. —Sper

In the race of life, it takes discipline to finish strong.

[Euro-American Scum]

Homemade almond toffee, cheesecake, double fudge brownie sundaes, annisette flavored biscotti, italian apple pie and so much more..

Uh oh. Looks like I'm going to have to download this entire thread. -:)

[TASMANIANRED]

"Of course you could put cream cheese on a bumper and it'd taste good."

I am in complete and total agreement.

[okstate]

It has to be my Grandma's blackberry pie...

[okstate]

And my other Grandma's pumpkin bars. Both are equally divine

[Kitty Mittens]

Those sweets you posted ALL look good to me! I like any and every sweet; that's why I need to lose 10 pounds, LOL!

[Euro-American Scum]

Kitty Litter Cake

I brought one of these made by my daughter to an office potluck some time ago. Almost got fired in the process.

Some people have no sense of humor. And they don't know what they missed.

[writer33]

It sounds good, but if that all fails, give me hot apple pie.

[Bahbah]

Ummm, fruit pizza. I would love to have that one. I, in return, can provide, as desired, the most incredible brownies on earth, an amazing cake called Japanese Fruit Cake (no explanation for the Japanese reference, and it is a true layer cake, not Christmas type fruit cake) that has a cream cheese frosting, and a Christmas cookie recipie which is basically butter held together by powdered sugar with nuts and butterscotch chips, frosted with a rum glaze that WILL make you drunk. This last one is not for children. (Can you tell I love to bake?)

[SandRat]

ROTFLOL!!!!

You have to remember I stay (try anyways) by working with the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and that one always goes over big. Haven't dared to be as brave as you and take one into the office yet.

[Fawnn]

You expect me to narrow it down to just one!!!??? ;)

[reformed_democrat]

you could put cream cheese on a bumper and it'd taste good

I should have known you'd be on a food thread.

Here's a cream cheese recipe I'll bet you don't have:

Open a package of Philadephia Cream Cheese (the good stuff -- not that fat free cr*p) and put it on a small plate. Press minced garlic around the top and sides, then pour Kikkumon soy sauce over all (not too much -- you don't want to drown it).

Spread on Triscuits.

My husband and I love cream cheese, garlic, and japanese food, so this just seemed a natural combination.

[writer33]

I love the tagline. So let's put lipstick on this pig and elect Cheney/Bush, oops, I meant Bush/Cheney. :) HeHe.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Welcome to the Canteen!

[Swede Girl]

Real Southern Peach Cobbler ...warm with vanilla ice cream on the side. It has to be made a special way, though. I first had this in in our high school cafeteria in Georgia....made by real Southern cafeteria ladies. I have found it made the same way only a few times since and have been unable to duplicate it at home. :o(

[JackelopeBreeder]

A bottle of port with cheese, pecans, and very dark chocolate on the side.

[JackelopeBreeder]

A bottle of port with cheese, pecans, and very dark chocolate on the side.