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#791443 - Thu May 03 2012 03:12 PM Your Favorite Dessert
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I've got a sweet tooth. Well, it's really a sweet fang. I can't resist desserts. I'd kill for a pecan pie (all 87 billion calories). Next comes cinnamon raisin rice pudding. Then bread pudding. Finally New York cheese cake (for some reason the New York variety is best. It's super creamy). Oh....I forgot English trifle (my sister's is the best-no offense Brits. She first tasted it in London and fell in love with it).

I've ordered desserts from QVC and have been very pleased with the quality; they're delicious considering hey are shipped to you from out of state.

Sweet things I HATE are anything with lemon or lime flavor; these things won't pass my lips.

What about you?


Edited by vendome (Thu May 03 2012 03:17 PM)
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#791447 - Thu May 03 2012 04:17 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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My favourite subject.
Anything with real crunchy-sticky-in the middle-meringue, like Pavlova, so long as it has mountains of real whipped cream.
Anything with suet, like sticky toffee pud, and jam rolypoly.
Anything in fact with real cream, such as Banoffeepie(if you haven't had that, Rich, you haven't lived.)
Us war babies were deprived of desserts(well thats MY excuse).
The best thing that came out of USA is Pecan Pie, in my opinion. Certain cheesecakes are ok if not too heavy and sticky.
You can keep Tiramisu.
I am very fond of apple crumble, but no custard, thanks, unless it is real, not packet yuk.
Creme brulee and cream caramel are acceptable too.
Failing that, some vanilla Hagendaaz, if I can't get real Cornish Ice cream (or Devon(Hockings)at a pinch). Honey on top.


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#791449 - Thu May 03 2012 04:39 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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I'm going to swap any pecan pie that comes my way with Ren's Tiramasu, so we'll both be happy. smile

Pavlova
Summer Pudding
Crumble... any crumble but my first choice would be apple and blackberry with ice cream
Strawberries and Cream - only the strawberries must be English as there's no taste like them
Steamed Treacle Pudding.
Anything with chocolate in it
Anything with chocolate on it
Michel Roux Jr's raspberry and chocolate tart
And my favourite of all...
Michel Roux Jr. wink
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#791452 - Thu May 03 2012 05:16 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Everything is my favourite dessert.

But to name a few:

Pecan pie
Pumpkin pie
Berry cobbler
Tiramisu, only if my grandmother makes it
Chocolate cake with fudgy frosting
Cookie dough ice cream
Cheesecakes of any variety
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#791453 - Thu May 03 2012 05:26 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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This is a good question for me to answer today. We are having Strawberry Shortcake for dessert tonight! I also love Baklava and Lemon Meringue Pie. Honestly, there isn't much sweet that I don't like. smile
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#791454 - Thu May 03 2012 05:28 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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ren:

What is Banoffeepie?
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#791455 - Thu May 03 2012 05:30 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Pavlova
Lemon meringue pie
Apple pie or crumble and icecream
Hot chocolate fudge cake with icecream and hot chocolate sauce

What I actually get is sugarfree diabetic jelly and a banana frown
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#791464 - Thu May 03 2012 05:44 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Vendome, Banoffi Pie (or Banoffee) was originally made at a restaurant in Sussex that I used to go to quite often - when I was feeling both hungry and rich. Basically it has bananas and toffee. So here is the original recipe from The Hungry Monk:

http://www.hungrymonk.co.uk/banoffi_pie/
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#791467 - Thu May 03 2012 06:20 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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You can even buy the ready boiled up condensed milk. Oh yum!!
Flopsy I will swap you anything with chocolate AND the Tiramisu for Michel Roux Jnr. Oh yes.
(sigh I suppose I had better opt for Senior.)


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#791469 - Thu May 03 2012 06:58 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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I've eaten at Michel Roux Sr's restaurant, oh yes, and when he was cooking. That has three Michelin stars and it was absolutely wonderful. Better still, I wasn't paying!

You'll have to fight Tizzabelle for Roux Jr. - I'll let you do that while I make off with him.
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#791509 - Fri May 04 2012 01:08 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Egg custard
Cheese cake (plain, no fruit at all please!)
Anything with chocolate involved
A slice of traditional Victoria sponge (with buttercream and squirty cream)

I'm also fond of plain vanilla ice-cream
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#791516 - Fri May 04 2012 01:50 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Sacher torte and lemon meringue pie.

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#791551 - Fri May 04 2012 05:02 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Eton Mmmmmmmmmmmmess!

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#791552 - Fri May 04 2012 06:07 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Oh yesssssssssss!!!
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#791554 - Fri May 04 2012 06:28 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Pavlova every time!

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#791564 - Fri May 04 2012 07:41 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Chocolate orange fudge cake
Chocolate orange fondue
Chocolate orange profiteroles
Chocolate orange mud cake
Chocolate orange souffle
Anything with chocolate or chocolate orange, really smile

Oh, and lemon meringue pie
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#791593 - Fri May 04 2012 09:08 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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You forgot Chocolate Orange Mousse! It's divine.

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#791594 - Fri May 04 2012 09:10 AM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Where do we sign up to win Michel Roux Jr? Count me in.

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#791634 - Fri May 04 2012 01:32 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Chocolate Torte and blueberry pie but only made from wild blueberries.
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#791647 - Fri May 04 2012 02:28 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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This is really disgusting -- I used to LOVE egg custard (A.K.A. flan) but I haven't been able to eat it since I heard Rosie O'Donnell say in an interview that she won't eat it because it reminds her of phlegm. The same thing happened many years ago when I was watching the old Saturday Night Live show. Gilda Radner was playing Roseann Rosanadana, and announced that she ate some raw clams and "it was like sucking on a phlegm ball." Needless to say, a clam has not entered my mouth since then.
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#791648 - Fri May 04 2012 02:30 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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I'm not much of a dessert or sweet eater but if any of the following four are available, I'm a goner.
Carrot Cake
Raspberry Pie
Blueberry Pie
Tapioca Pudding
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#791666 - Fri May 04 2012 03:44 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Well , thanks for sharing,Rich!
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#791669 - Fri May 04 2012 03:56 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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Yewk, tapioca pudding, yewk! Frogspawn.
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#791673 - Fri May 04 2012 04:11 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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I was a student in my mother's home county, with lots of her family nearby. She came to stay for a week and I took her around and about to catch up with her siblings. We went for lunch one day to her sister-in-law's; I'd only met that aunt a couple of times but was promised a rare treat because of all the women in the family she was known as the best cook. Which I should say, apart from one of my Cornish aunts, wasn't difficult.

Anyway, we arrived to a great smell... and then I realised what it was. Liver and bacon. I really can't eat liver. Really, I can't. Every time Aunt D left the room to check on something in the kitchen, I shoveled the liver from my plate to mother's - she loved the stuff. And of course every time Aunt D returned she brought more liver and heaped it on my plate as I clearly liked it so much. Mum whispered that she'd give me some of her pudding to make up for it. Ha! It was tapioca! Mum gobbled hers down, then we swapped plates and she ate mine. Fortunately I was able to refuse second helpings as I was so full after all that liver...

The worst thing about that meal was that it was my birthday!

Just don't start me on semobloominglina. mad

Edited because it's so disgusting I couldn't bring myself to spell it.


Edited by flopsymopsy (Fri May 04 2012 04:14 PM)
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#791721 - Fri May 04 2012 08:14 PM Re: Your Favorite Dessert
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My goodness! You people on the other side of the pond obviously don't know how to cook a good tapioca. wink laugh
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