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!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

DO speak your mind, Pooh!
What they really need to do there, is to clean house!!
I'd like to see you get out of there..
or at least get some decent help!
Ms.B

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I'll try to wait up, Ma...
Hurry home!
Ms.B

[Kathy in Alaska]

I'm home!! I'm gonna have to read fast. I am beat!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Mondays are your long days at work, huh, Ma?
have you had your supper?
Go find something to eat!!
Ms.B

[Ms.Poohbear]

It is time for pooh to say good nite troops ,good nite all hugs to all
Ms Poohbear

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Good night Ms.Pooh!
Sleep well and God Bless!
Ms.B

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, Ms Pooh.

[HiJinx]

G'Night, Ms. Pooh.

See you tomorrow!

[HiJinx]

No need to speed read...you've only missed about 20 posts so far.

Tonight's a good night to catch up on your sleep...or, go outside and enjoy star-gazing. You know, just a little something different for a change...

[Kathy in Alaska]

Mondays are long, yes. Food sounds like a good idea, although after all these desserts.....LOL! What's on your agenda for work tomorrow? Get to sleep in?

[maxwell]

What is your favorite dessert?

Cheesecake. But I cain't eat it or I will toot myself silly. IfyaknowwutImean.

And the way you make it is, you crash a church lady party or something.

[maxwell]

Well, dagnabbit, I have to amend that. I ate some pe-can pie once from a church lady food stand that just about knocked my socks off. It was toe-lickin' good. Them church ladies, they know how to cook.

[Kathy in Alaska]

How's your Mom doing? Was she able to enjoy her birthday, and Piper too?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Another blood drive..
almost in the same spot I was in today..(groan)
Easy work but a very long drive...
Yes, I get to sleep in a little while!
I don't have to be up until 9 am!
;0)
Ms.B

[HiJinx]

She's cruising, Kathy. Marking time until it runs out.

We're all doing okay in the 'accepting it' department, but my (step-)Sis is feeling the burden of being the caregiver.

Piper had the sniffles over the weekend, so we passed on taking her. Instead, Mom received this, framed, as a birthday present. She loved it.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, maxwell....thanks for sharing.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Fantastic idea for a present that she can enjoy all her days. Caregivers have such a hard job. I admire those that are able, and still remain sane. Does she have any help?

[Fawnn]

Ms.Poohbear!!! #600!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Easy work but a very long drive...

Make sure you are very nice to Lucretia. Give her a pat every now and then. She is going with you, isn't she?

[HiJinx]

Arizona covers home health care depending on the need. Mom has a nurse 8 hours per day, with respite care if my sister needs to take off for any reason.

But routinely, my sis needs to take care of the vent and anything else Mom needs for the other 16 hours.

It's tough. But it's what you do. I have two brothers in Phoenix who help when they can, but for some reason the guys don't handle it as well as our sister.