Desserts, What Say You?

[mrchick]

My number one is pecan pie. I also enjoy a good key lime pie and the occasional brownie. Almost forgot since it's so hard to find, but a good Mexican fried ice cream is right up there with the best desserts money can buy. I'm talking a big ball of vanilla ice cream coated in corn flakes, flash fried, and served in a tortilla bowl with caramel sauce and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Not the ice cream burritos most Mexican places call fried ice cream.

I grew up enjoying a sort of buttermilk chess type pie my family called Jeff Davis pie. I don't have the recipe to make it myself, so I haven't had that in many years.

I just looked up some recipes for Jeff Davis pie. It looks like something I'm going to have to try.[emoji1]

 

[Rustyt1953]

Up North I enjoyed puh-khan pie.

Down South I enjoyed pee-can pie.

 

[whitestang]

1. German Chocolate cake.
2. Dutch Apple Pie.
3.All others.

 

[DEF3]

STCM, that was perfect. I still can't stop laughing.

 

[Kinman]

Huckleberry Pie, I like just about anything and am capable of baking a great pie and Huckleberry is my hands down favorite, no apple filler, straight Hucks with tapioca for thickener the way my grandma taught me. I'm very fond of real deal ice cream but have a milk intolerance, drives my wife crazy because I don't like the ice cream on the pie...separate dish please. Close second to Huckleberry is Blackberry (seeds and all).

 

[ZGrand]

Warm pecan pie or carrot cake for me, please. (Although after seven kidney stones I've eliminated all nuts from my diet - so no more pecan pie.)

 

[Delta Expatriate]

Desserts, what say you?

I probably should say no.

 

[Rustyt1953]

When I lived across the pond mum grew rhubarb and gooseberries. Her pies were wonderful.

If I had a functioning Wayback Machine that's where I'd go.

 

[Golddollar]

Up until 7 months ago my wife would call me "Mr. Desert", lol! As much as I love to eat food, desert was my big thing - I loved it all - cake, ice cream, the whole laundry list! I finally got it through my head that I had to lose 30 pound and eating desert was not in my future. All I did was eliminate all deserts and bread - I am now down 24 pounds in 7 moths. Still have 8-10 pounds left to lose (coming off slowly) but I am slowly progressing.

I am now at the point that I can sit at a table or a restaurant with friends and watch them eat desert - I have completely lost the urge to indulge. I'll just have coffee. After 7 months and great success in increasing my health, lowering blood pressure, triglycerides, etc. I have no plans to start eating deserts or bread again. Yes, it was hard in the beginning but now I no longer crave them. I was not the person who could "eat just one"! Therefore I eat none, when it comes to deserts. It took me 69 years to get to that conclusion, but I have learned my lesson! At 70 you can not get away with what an 18 year old can.

I am now wearing the expensive Horsehide gun belt and I put into storage 25 years ago as the newer larger ones are too large for me now. I also completely eliminated Prilosec, Cholesterol, and Blood Pressure med's!! No longer need them! That is my new "desert" with the whipped cream on top.

Since I am Type 2 diabetic I have pretty much gone on this same regimen, but I didn't seem to lose as much weight.

 

[cherrypointmarine]

Cajunlawyer , you need to taste my wife's holiday pie . I don't know where she got the recipe , but it's a killer .The bottom half is a pumpkin pie , the top half is pecan pie . I'll never eat either one again , just her half & half .

 

[pawngal]

Everything except pumpkin pie

 

[robvious]

I, like my father, am a big fan of pie.. just about every kind.. and with apologies to Rusty, I don't like gooseberry... sorry... I prefer the pies I make from scratch... pumpkin (starting with an actual pumpkin), peach, cherry, sour cream raisin, apple... so pie is number one... ice cream is probably second and third is Christmas cookies... kolaches are a food group, not a dessert, so not technically on the list..
and like my father.. pie at breakfast is referred to as toast and at lunch, according to my son, pie is a side salad...

 

[TX-Dennis]

I just looked up some recipes for Jeff Davis pie. It looks like something I'm going to have to try.[emoji1]

None of the recipes I've found online sound exactly like what my grandmother made, but some are pretty close. They do all sound (and look) tasty, though.

 

[lihpster]

pie at breakfast is referred to as toast and at lunch, according to my son, pie is a side salad...

Pie is appropriate at all hours of the day. Just like beer.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I grew up in a land where anything that grew, flew, walked, crawled, slithered or swam ended up in a pie crust.

 

[Model 19 6"]

My Grandmother made me German Chocolate cake for my birthday. It was fantastic!! She did not even need to ask what I wanted, it was a good run for about 10 yrs. My wife has a friend who makes a good one, thou I don't get it very often.