Everything Dessert Related

[Howard]

One of the best! And if you make it with coconut sugar, I can eat it.

I'd rather buy it instead of making it unless My Mother wants the recipe of a chocolate chip cookie pie.

 

[eagle2250]

^^
....and add a big dollop of vanilla ice cream to whatever dessert you may choose to double your gastric delight!

 

[Fading Fast]

^^
....and add a big dollop of vanilla ice cream to whatever dessert you may choose to double your gastric delight!

My father practiced a variation on your theme, which is that a scoop (pretty comfortable that man never used the term "dollop" - probably had never even heard it - in his life) of chocolate ice-cream made every dessert that much better. It wasn't until I moved out into the real world that I learned that normal people add vanilla ice-cream or whip-cream to desserts and not chocolate ice-cream.

But, then again, a man forged in the Depression and who had no truck with 1970s culture was quite often (always) out of step with many prevailing norms when I was growing up. I lived in two worlds as a kid: scarred post-Depression seriousness at home / crazy '70s libertinism away from home - .

 

[SG_67]

I lived in two worlds as a kid: scarred post-Depression seriousness at home / crazy '70s libertinism away from home - .

So now when you roll a joint, you’re careful not to waste anything and recycle what falls out.

 

[Howard]

^^
....and add a big dollop of vanilla ice cream to whatever dessert you may choose to double your gastric delight!

Now I'm feeling hungry for ice cream since it's hot here in New York now.

 

[Howard]

How about some
Cinnamon Red Hot Ice Cream?

 

[Oldsarge]

So now when you roll a joint, you’re careful not to waste anything and recycle what falls out.

If I were to partake of the PNW mary-jane culture, I would probably use a pipe. No sense wasting wrappers . . .

 

[Howard]

How about something cold on a hot day?

 

[FiscalDean]

Heck it ain't! Port is sweet and blends beautifully with the salty umami of the Gorgonzola. Don't knock it 'til you try it. You put cheddar on apple pie, don't you?

As a resident of the Dairy State, I will endorse either vanilla ice cream or a big chunk of aged cheddar. Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

 

[Howard]

Happy Independence Day, here is an American Flag Cake, blueberries are the stars and the strawberries are the stripes, enjoy and eat up!

 

[Shaver]

Key Lime Pie.

There exists in but few items such a boggling gulf between good and bad as may be encountered amongst key lime pies but when one is fortunate enough to receive a decent example ....... bliss.

 

[Fading Fast]

Key Lime Pie.

There exists in but few items such a boggling gulf between good and bad as may be encountered amongst key lime pies but when one is fortunate enough to receive a d
example ....... bliss.

From the archives, but super girlfriend makes an outstanding key lime pie:

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[Dhaller]

I haven't had Key Lime Pie in a long, long time. Perhaps I'll seek one out this weekend.

We had a restaurant in Atlanta, many years ago, which was undone by Key Lime Pie. "Hemingways" was the name of the place, and the Key Lime Pie was so renowned that folks would make a special trip just for a slice; the problem was that Hemingways was a *full service restaurant*, yet here it was, occupied by patrons sitting just for a slice of pie. They might have dinner elsewhere (there was a popular eatery called Einstein's right next door - that's still there after thirty years - and there was a pedestrian, Key Lime Pie-fueled funnel from Einstein's to Hemingway's), and then they'd come over for a slice.

A restaurant does not live by pie alone! It proved its undoing.

DH

 

[Dhaller]

On a related note (slightly), a favorite dessert of mine after tucking in to a heavy Italian meal is a light dessert of sorbet or gelato splashed with limoncello.

A favorite family-owned Italian eatery of mine got me started on it; they have a nice, house-made limoncello, and one summer gave me a scoop of lemon sorbet in limoncello, and it was so delicious and refreshing; I've since had several variations on it there.

(Drawing inspiration from this, I sometimes pair vanilla gelato and sake at home in a Japanese take on the treat.)

DH

*I suppose most Italian restaurants are family-owned, but I mention it here because over the years, we've become quite close to the owners, who treat patrons like family. When my wife was in the hospital after the birth of our daughter, they even brought her a dinner (some dishes traditionally-prepared for new mothers in Italy), so she could recover her strength properly! My kind of restaurateurs.

 

[Shaver]

From the archives, but super girlfriend makes an outstanding key lime pie:
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Mmmm.

I believe that it is high time that I baked a key lime pie for myself. Please expect pics next week.

 

[Howard]

From the archives, but super girlfriend makes an outstanding key lime pie:
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That looks like a chocolate pie, you sure that's Key Lime?

 

[Fading Fast]

That looks like a chocolate pie, you sure that's Key Lime?

Yes Howard, it has a Graham cracker crust (which is brownish) with a Key Lime filling (which is yellowish). And having eaten it, I can vouch for it being a wonderful Key Lime pie, with no chocolate at all. Hope you had a nice Fourth of July.

 

[Howard]

Yes Howard, it has a Graham cracker crust (which is brownish) with a Key Lime filling (which is yellowish). And having eaten it, I can vouch for it being a wonderful Key Lime pie, with no chocolate at all. Hope you had a nice Fourth of July.

The picture made it look like it's chocolate covered.

 

[Oldsarge]

That's because you're used to Key Lime pies that have been filled with green food coloring, an anathema to the purists among us. Lime juice is not green. For that matter, ripe limes aren't green either but somewhere along the line some yahoo decided to put green coloring in the pie. Possibly he/she was trying to differentiate it from lemon meringue. One never knows how nonsense gets started.

 

[TKI67]

Mmm. Leftover cherry pie!