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

FRiends of the Canteen

[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!

[Swede Girl]

Thanks for the picture of the peach cobbler...there goes my diet!

[Old Sarge]

Well, the shamrocks I could clean out - spilling sparkling anything, would muck up the keyboard...

[Soaring Feather]

What we could learn from Will Rogers

Will Rogers, who died in a plane crash with Wylie Post in 1935, was probably the greatest political sage this country has ever known.
Enjoy the following:
1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
3. There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman...neither works.
4. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
5. Always drink upstream from the herd.
6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.
8. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.
11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.
12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral:
When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

ABOUT GROWING OLDER...

First ~ Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.
Eighth ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.
Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
Tenth ~ Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
And finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old.

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Ms Feather!

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, Tom!!

[MoJo2001]

Good morning Troops and Canteen!
Wow! I see everyone's been busy this morning.
Hope everyone has a fabulous week!
The summer is winding down for MoJo's house.
Only 3 weeks til school start. (Hurry up already!)
WooHoo!!

[MoJo2001]

 

Good morning Mr.Tonkin!
Thanks for posting the thread!
Thank you for everything you do.
Sorry I haven't been around much this summer.
Hopefully, that will change soon!
*HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

 

Good morning Queenie!!
Thank you for the "Canteen Blessing For The Troops"
Hope you have a great week. Are you doing anything exciting this week?
I have a feeling something exciting will happen this week online for you. Hehe!
(Although, I'm not telling what it will be.)
*HUGS*

[MoJo2001]

 

Oh my goodness!
I don't know if I'm going to be able to  Welcome everyone to the Canteen properly.
Hmmmmm.......................

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, Little Diva!!!!!

No exciting plans planned!! It's exciting when I wake up!!! LOL

Oh promises, promises, can't wait to see what's happening!!

How's Bobby doing this morning??

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Run A Muk : Ace + 3!

[MoJo2001]

 

WooHoo!

No one is in the Canteen except little ole me.
Hehe!!

Imagine the chaos! Hehe!

[UsnDadof8]

My favorite dessert ?

Pretty much all of them, except bread pudding

(wife in background shouting amen)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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Sept 11th
The National March Against Terror!

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Welcome to the Canteen!

[MoJo2001]

 

Good morning Queenie and Mr.Tonkin!!
Bobby is getting better. The doctor's appt this morning was brutal. I had to actually wake up at 6AM. Hello? And then to get to the doctor with all those caffeine induced smiling nurses was more than MoJo could handle. They've stuck him on antibiotics.

Surprises surprises are in store for you this week.

Mr.Tonkin, when's MoJo gonna catch a mouse? That's what we all wanna hear about. Hehe!

 

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

KERRY LIED . . . while good men died
A gathering of Vietnam veterans from across America

Where: The West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC

When: Sunday, Sept 12, 2004 2:00-4:00 PM (EDT)
Why: To tell the truth about Vietnam veterans.

To counter the lies told about Vietnam veterans by John Kerry
All Vietnam veterans and their families and supporters are asked to attend.
Other veterans are invited as honored guests.

Printable flyer Click Here
(pdf file)

[UsnDadof8]

Thanks! I hate seeing "Pancakes on Wednesday" though, because by then I'm at work, and I'm a sucker for a big stack of pancakes !

[tomkow6]

Mornin', MoJo! Schools in our area start TOMORROW!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Monday morning, Angel Boy! Good Monday morning, Patriotic Pattie!