Dessert

[domestic goddess]

How often do you eat dessert? Do you make it, or buy it? Do you eat only fresh fruit, or do you eat baked goods? What other desserrt customs do you have?
I confess that I am a dessert lover. I like a little somethng sweet after a meal. I can eat dessert 3 times a day, because I think breakfast should come with dessert, too, and I can consider a muffin dessert. I like to bake desserts, and I like to smell them baking. I guess I love just about everything about them. No wonder I need to lose weight!
I think I'm going to bake a key lime pie today, only with Persian limes, since there are no key limes here. I love limes. I love pie, so it seems like a match made in heaven. We actually prefer pies to cakes around here, but cakes will surely get eaten, too. A cheesecake will be next, as dgd1 has decided that's what she wants for her birthday party in Sept., and we need to do a practice run. Then an angel food cake for my birthday. That's what I always asked my grandmother for, and her angel food cakes were legendary. Reviving that tradition, now that I will be 60. A nice round number for a nice round dessert.

[decemberlov]

mmmm we love pies too!! I'm not much of a cake person but if I do eat it it must be whipped cream icing!
On average we do bad desserts maybe once a week :~) And better desserts (like watermelon or pineapple after dinner) maybe 2 or 3 times a week. Our usual ones are strawberries & blueberries with homemade whipped cream on a slice of pound cake, blueberry pie with homemade vanilla ice cream and pumpkin pie in the fall and winter.

I never dried baking my own pies but I'd love to try...I can bake a cake, load ingredients into my ice cream maker and whip cream lol that about the extent of my dessert making skills.

I'd love to know how to make a key lime pie...soooo yummy!!

[peggy]

We don't eat dessert. Never really got into the habit of it. Really puts my brother in law out when he visits cause he has dessert at every meal.
If we have company, and I think about it, I will get ice cream, or sometimes make a pudding or something, but just us it's maybe 2-3 times a year if no occasion. Of course holidays and birthdays have dessert, but that's kind of how I see dessert, for holidays and birthdays.
My husband always gets a pie for his birthday cause that's his favorite.
Having said this, i must confess I do taste sweets fairly often, more often than I would like to tell the truth as I am almost always working on developing a recipe for my sister's bakery. But I take just a taste, and then hand it over to her for more tasting. I just don't like sweets.
Now salty...chips and dip and such, I could eat all day!:D

[Miss Cellane]

Growing up, we had dessert for lunch and dinner. Lunch was usually a piece of fruit in our school lunches, but on weekends we might add a cookie or two. Dinner could be Mom's homemade cookies or brownies, fruit, canned fruit, or Jello.(It was the 1960s.) On Fridays, Mom always had a layer cake to celebrate the end of the work/school week. (And because I think she just liked cake.) At Sunday dinner, we had ice cream.

I remember one time my brother asked at breakfast what was for dessert. Since it was summer and hot, Mom had gotten up early and done some baking, so she actually gave us each a brownie for dessert for breakfast! But we didn't expect that as a general rule. Mom did make a great coffee cake for breakfast once a week, though.

These days, I don't plan desserts. I have fruit at two meals a day. And I usually have some sort of sweet thing around--I'll bake muffins or a quick bread or cookies or brownies. Not specifically for dessert, unless I have company. But I do like a sweet treat so I'll bake a batch of cookies and freeze most of them and have one or two cookies a day until they run out. Or I'll bake lemon almond bread or pumpkin bread and have a slice with a cup of tea in the afternoon.

[domestic goddess]

Different philosophies on dessert is sure enlightening! We are just dessert people. I think we almost always had dessert after dinner, even if it was just something quick and easy. Chocolate pudding was a frequent dessert. Brownies, fudge, cookies, cake, I remember, but I don't think my mom made pie very often. She liked it and always ate what I made when I visited, and she made good crust, but I think she thought it was more trouble than it was worth. I don't remember her ever making a cream pie.
It's a good thing I'm hooked on sweets, and not salty foods. With my high blood pressure, salt is something I really watch, and it is everywhere!

[IshbelRobertson]

Whilst I adore making puddings, I have to say that I only make them when we have guests!

[ApatheticNoMore]

How often do you eat dessert? Do you make it, or buy it?

Dessert proper at the end of a meal? Almost never. Sweets? Oh sigh ... I've mostly settled on chocolate because I don't binge on it (neither on dark nor milk chocolate), so therefore it's relatively "safe" from that perspective :|(. Haha, yea I can binge on the floury desserts. But I eat some chocolate most days I'm sad to admit. Much less frequently (once a week maybe) I'll have a cookie or a pastry or a slice of pie or some ice cream or a candy bar.

[razz]

We just have a variety of fruit for all three meals in a day. Over time, even looking at desserts that used to tempt me, doesn't affect me any more. Is this because I have chosen to cut back on all sugar and white flour dishes in favour of more natural whole foods?

[ApatheticNoMore]

They don't tempt me nearly as strongly as they used to either, however they are pleasurable and I think I'm partly just mentally addicted to that (forbidden fruit ... I mean forbidden chocolate .. addicted to forbidden "bad" pleasure).

The times I do worse than chocolate is ocassionally a treat like a bday or someone offering me homemade cookies and ocassionally just the toxicity of the work environment getting to me (where junk and only junk is abundant and often free, as free and abundant as stress).

I can resist anything but temptation. :~)

[bunnys]

I don't consider fruit to be dessert.

I don't eat many sweets. I have found that when I start eating them I want to eat them more and more. But when I stop, I don't even think of them day after day.

Back in the day when I was much heavier (+65-70lbs) I ate a lot of sweets. I craved them and I inhaled them. I didn't even enjoy them, I ate them so fast and when I wasn't eating them I was thinking about how nice it would be if I just had a little taste of something sweet. When I eat them now I don't enjoy them as much as I thought I was enjoying them before.

But, I always prefer something that has a baked cake along with something dairy. My favorite is Boston Cream Pie. I also like brownies and ice cream. Also, gotta love an ice cream sandwich. Now that I no longer eat dairy I have to substitute some kind of soy product for my dairy component.

I would love to make an ice cream pie before the end of the summer...