BS: Your Dessert?

Subject: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:55 PM

If all of the desserts listed below were sitting in front of you, which would you choose? This is reputed to be very accurate.

Pick your dessert, then look to see what psychiatrists think about you.

Here are your choices:

1. Angel Food Cake

2. Brownies

3. Lemon Meringue Pie

4. Vanilla cake with Chocolate Icing

5. Strawberry Short Cake

6. Chocolate on Chocolate

7. Ice Cream

8. Carrot Cake

OK - Now that you've made your choice this is what research says about you...

1. ANGEL FOOD CAKE -- Sweet, loving, cuddly. You love all warm and fuzzy items. A little nutty at times. Sometimes you need an ice cream cone at the end of the day. Others perceive you as being childlike and immature at times.

2. BROWNIES -- You are adventurous, love new ideas, are a champion of underdogs and a slayer of dragons. When tempers flare up you whip out your saber. You are always the oddball with a unique sense of humor and direction. You tend to be very loyal.

3. LEMON MERINGUE -- Smooth, sexy, & articulate with your hands, you are an excellent after-dinner speaker and a good teacher. But don't try to walk and chew gum at the same time. A bit of a diva at times, but you have many friends.

4. VANILLA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE ICING -- Fun-loving, sassy, humorous, not very grounded in life; very indecisive and lack motivation. Everyone enjoys being around you, but you are a practical joker. Others should be cautious in making you mad. However, you are a friend for life.

5. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE -- Romantic, warm, loving. You care about other people, can be counted on in a pinch and expect the same in return. Intuitively keen. Can be very emotional.

6.. CHOCOLATE ON CHOCOLATE -- Sexy; always ready to give and receive. Very creative, adventurous, ambitious, and passionate. You can appear to have a cold exterior but are warm on the inside. Not afraid to take chances. Will not settle for anything average in life. Love to laugh.

7. ICE CREAM -- You like sports, whether it be baseball, football, basketball, or soccer. If you could, you would like to participate, but you enjoy watching sports. You don't like to give up the remote control. You tend to be self-centered and high maintenance.

8. CARROT CAKE -- You are a very fun loving person, who likes to laugh. You are fun to be with. People like to hang out with you. You are a very warm hearted person and a little quirky at times. You have many loyal friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: GUEST,ozchick
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 01:15 AM

mmmmm.... lemon meringue - my favourite!!! do I get a piece now?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Sooz
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 03:48 AM

me too

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: eddie1
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 04:07 AM

If these desserte were sitting in front of me, I'd have them all! No sense in letting them go to waste.

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 05:06 AM

What about if you like fruit salad or trifle?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: autolycus
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 06:13 AM

And what if you like fresh fruit for dessert?


    And what do miserable gits,violent people,and cynics have for dessert? I think we should be told.





       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 06:15 AM

Good point.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: GUEST,ozchick
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 06:20 AM

I think that would be the ice cream option - it looks like this person is putting a *positive* spin on everyone's personalities......

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 07:06 AM

No rice pudding? Or yoghurt or cheesecake or stawberries and cream or spotted dick and custard and what is Angel food cake?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Myrtle
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 07:12 AM

What about the raspberry pavlova??????
Regards, Myrtle.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 08:31 AM

For me, it's a close call between carrot cake and creme brulee. Since creme bruless isn't an option, I'll take the carrot cake!

YUM-O!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: jeana
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 08:45 AM

I love pavlova too. Do you think the psychiatrists would think differently no matter which fruit was used or would different fruits mean different things?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 09:34 AM

In the email I lifted this from, you were only "allowed" ONE CHOICE. I took all that crap out! :~) But apparrently the shrinks doing the study had limited imaginations-- or had never met a Mudcatter.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Alec
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 09:40 AM

Think I'll have Strawberry on Choclate just to confabulate the results.
Welcome to Mudcat Jeana.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Micca
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 10:57 AM

Lemon (or,even better Lime)Sorbet

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: lady penelope
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:11 AM

Ooooh raspberry pavlova!!! Now you're talking... But I like mine with icecream (cos I'm a greedy cow).

I chose icecream from the list 'cos none of the rest really appealed to me. However, I can't abide watching sport, much rather be doing it. And I really don't watch much TV anyway.

Now about being high maintenance....well, you'd really have to ask Parker about that....

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: MMario
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:27 AM

Mrs. Duck - "angel food" cake would be a white sponge -- a meringue with just enough flour to move it into "cake" territory

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:29 AM

I picked ice cream. That's supposed to mean I like sports. I hate sports.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Scoville
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:36 AM

Never mind angel food--what the Hell is spotted dick??

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 12:00 PM

How about a nice port with a good Stilton and tart apple slices? Or a wonderful bread pudding with bourbon sauce? Or creme brulee? Or razzleberry pie with a good crust? Or raspberry torte? Or a simple dish of freshly picked wild strawberries with clotted creme? Or blackberries, slightly sweetened and served over a slice of angel food cake loaf with a dollop of creme fraiche? Or simply a plate of good chocolates?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 12:29 PM

It was a toss up between brownies and icecream. Like BWL, I have no use for organized sports. Occasionally, I'll watch something on TV, but never for long, and never if I can think of something else to do. I'm not self-centered or high-maintenance, either. As for the brownies, I'm only occastionally adventurous, never slayed a dragon, and and I'm wary of new ideas.

Cookies were never mentioned. And only lemon meringue, no other type of pie. Why do different types of cake reveal different personalities, but not different flavors of ice cream? This test is so flawed it's not even worth paying attention to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 12:34 PM

It's not a real test-- it's purely for fun.

Mmario called our Saturday Night service "strawberry shortcake" once. There must be SOMETHING in all this! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 12:52 PM

Well...Strawberry shortcake...*IF* it's real, home baked shortcake! It's been SO many years since I've had some! (They sell this spongy, yellow 'stuff' in grocery stores and dare to call it shortcake)

(But I'd be eyeing the Lemon merengue )

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 01:18 PM

Anything with chocolate for me!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 01:30 PM

Oh, we have the real strawberry shortcake in our area every year, at all restaurants-- and cheap. It's considered the warm-weather equivalent of... rice pudding!

My favorite version of it came served in a big ole faceted-glass goblet. Not sure that one place is still open anymore. So you better come soon, Bill, before we become just like everywhere else.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: terrier
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 01:58 PM

Make mine the one with the most ALCHOHOLIC CONTENT.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: autolycus
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 02:13 PM

As for what meanings psychiatrists would give to different fruits,Freud once nearly said,"Sometimes a banana is just a banana."






       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 02:18 PM

I found it difficult to decide between lemon meringue pie and strawberry shortcake. While I prefer both equally, of those listed, I went with the strawberry shortcake, because it is more of a rarity for me, whereas I make lemon meringue pie regularly in any season.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 02:24 PM

I chose carrot cake- but it has to be moist. I have seen carrot cake that was so dry it was not as good as any other cake.

I would have chosen ice cream- butI was afraid I wouldn't get to choose the flavor. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 04:01 PM

Hey Bill,


   Don't let the post about ALL the restaurants in this area having strawberry shortcake (I live in the same area as WYSIWYG)...that just isn't so! There are a few but hands down, the best strawberry shortcake to be found is at a local church, held on the Green....I love those kinds of community events...I think it makes the strawberry shortcake taste even better!

LQF

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 04:50 PM

Summer pudding....

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Janie
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 10:25 PM

I dithered between carrot cake and chocolate on chocolate--the carrot cake finally won. The only piece that really fit is the 'quirky.'

Uhmmmm...home made strawberry shortcake! I've never won the lottery, but I did buy a farm that happens to have loads of wild strawberries.   We absolutely binge on them during their brief season. I'll make shortcake biscuits and whip heavy cream with honey to layer on the shortcake with the strawberries. Between the heavy cream, and the butter and cream in the shortcake, it ain't low cholesterol eating--but who cares about that in food heaven! And we'll make wild strawberry ice cream--it is to died for!

Is it early summer yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:00 PM

mmmmm...seems like a 'few' still know what real shortcake is! (I sorta would trust a church sale more than a restaurant until I was sure).

Seems like it calls for some comparison shopping! ;^)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Amergin
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:20 PM

Magic Brownies.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:36 PM

Try fresh berries over what we call "scones" here in The West and top it off with whipped heavy cream.

If I'm there, just keep it comin'.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:11 AM

Well I thought the local church strawberry festival here would be scrumptious too. But somehow, strawberries on top of a lead heavy, bitter, whole wheat, over-baked, rock hard excursion into dispair, didn't do the trick for me.

It may have been heaven to some flakey nuts and berries individual, but put my strawberries over a delicate sponge cake, pleeease! Hell, I'd even delight in the dayglo-yellow, best before one year's hence, round puck from the local fast food outfit, over that grey, puritanical, culinary cardboard.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Wordsmith
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 02:46 AM

STOP! You guys are making me hungry! I'd have to admit, I couldn't decide, so I took a little smidge of everything listed. Now, I do, indeed, want to know what spotted dick is, because I have heard it referenced in movies before. I think it's a pudding, but would that be more like a cake? Also, what is a pavlova? Anything like a Charlotte Russe? I used to love those. Haven't seen one since I was a kid. Now, if anyone wants a very moist carrot cake recipe, I can provide one...I got it out of Yankee magazine many years ago...it is the best I've ever had. As for strawberries...funny thing is I was just thinking about those the other night, and how, in my estimation, the best are from Wolf Island and only in season. Which doesn't stop me from buying them from wherever else they come from. I have a buttermilk biscuit recipe that would be lovely under some strawberries and whipped cream. Do mudcatters share recipes? I'll also vote for Creme Brulee.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: open mike
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 02:51 AM

Anza Borrego is great in the spring,
the Black Rock is quite a place in the fall,
oh i thought you said desert...

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:04 AM

Bill, I was raised on shortcake. We spent many summers up at the family camp, where wild strawberries grew in profusion. Of course it was us kids' job to gather them, and Aunt Cecile's job (with my young mom's help) was to make the shortcake on the old enamel woodstove we now have here at our home, as you've seen, in our entry passage. After feasting on the day's catch of brook trout, warm shortcake topped with chilled berries and peaks of real whipped cream was a nightly delicacy.

Shortcake is shortcake is shortcake, though-- the best shortcake you'll ever eat is always:


















whatever shortcake you are eating at the moment. It's.... it's downright metaphorical.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:15 AM

Duh, too early in the morning-- metaphysical.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: GUEST,ozchick
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:23 AM

What is a Pavlova?? you haven't lived, my friend!! It's an aussie dessert named after the Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova to commemorate her visit here in the 1920s. The base is a large meringue - crunchy on the outside and marshmallow on the inside, and it's topped with cream and seasonal fruit. It is the best dessert in the world - I chose lemon meringue on this list because 'pav' (as we aussies call it) wasn't available.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: GUEST,ozchick
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:30 AM

AAAAggghhh cannot make the clicky thing work!!!

Here is a good website for the pav recipe

http://www.joyofbaking.com/Pavlova.html

Subject: Mom's Lessons - Rice Pudding and Meatloaf-Making
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 09:11 AM

The trouble with getting up too early is that now I can't get the damn rice pudding off my mind, and my mom's not here to make it-- she's miles away in Californy, fast asleep. But if she were here, she'd cheerfully start a batch of rice pudding-- another treasured favorite in our family. A good girl alsways has the ingredients already on hand, and I do have all but one-- but by the time she'd be ready for the vanilla, I'd be back from WalMart with it.

I don't know the recipe because there isn't one... of course I've asked her, and she just says, "Wellll......." See, she isn't hoarding a secret, it's just that she doesn't use one herself and probably has never bothereed to think out the step after the fact-- she just makes it. But at the end of Make Rice Pudding Day, it comes out like a cream risotto and then as it cools (so they won't cook, rehydrate and burst), she adds the raisins at just the right time while the rice is soaking up the last of the excess moisture (did I mention the eggs to enrich the custardy cream?). When it's all done cooling it has just the right amount of moisture, every grain of rice is tender and yet has kept its shape and texture, the raisins are plenitudinous, and it's even good for you.... oh man, I could live on it.

So when I couple rice pudding and shortcake in one post-- yeah, I have to admit, someone looking for a chance to portray me as dismissive might have felt I'd presented a real opportunity. :~) But people who actually know me know how I really feel about things. Oh wow, don't get me started on meatloaf.... another commonly-dismissed item that is quite the dish, in the right hands.

Bill, next time you and Ferrara visit, I tell you what. We'll have to try that cream risotto approach, eh? And if we get it as good as my mom's, we can reward ourselves with..... shortcake! :~) We won't be able to fire up the woodstove-- not chimneyed at present-- unless we drag it out on the back porch. But somehow.... I think we'll manage. :~) And probably wrassle us up some philosophy, too, while the meatloaf stowed in the freezer is thawing for lunch.

Oh no.... now I got myself started on the dang meatloaf, and day before yesterday I used up the last slice from the last 12-pound batch I made..... oh well, grocery shopping day comes soon......... Mom was so happy the day I proudly called her and told her I'd developed my own meatloaf approach and had stopped trying to make hers-- her secret isn't to be able to replicate, but to create for oneself.

That's why I loved your dinner dish, you know. :~) (Bring sausage to add to the meatloaf, OK?)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 10:22 AM

....it ain't nice to make a feller drool on his keyboard this early in the morning!

(making notes)

(My mother never aspired to be a 'cook'...yet I enjoyed almost....I say "almost" everything she made......except meatloaf! I 'think' she simply added too many cracker crumbs to it....in any case, you could cut a thin slice and use it to challenge someone to a duel...*slap, slap! Take that!*....we added LOTS of catsup.) *I* make better meatloaf...and Rita has tweaked it to suit her diet, and still improved it.

But if Mom served **Cherry Pudding** for dessert, all was forgiven! Somewhere in my youth, she discovered this recipe for mixing pie cherries with dough and kinda of frying in in a cast iron skillet, with thickend cherry sauce to pour over it.....(and, I guess milk or creme for those who NEED silly additions for ambrosia!...I don't).

When Rita & I visited her in about 1981, she made it for me one last time....and I just found what 'seems' to be her little card file with the recipe...we shall see....

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:26 PM

Payback's a bitch! [drooooolllllll]

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:47 PM

I PMed thius but then it occurred to me it didn;t need to be a state secret--

Boysenberry Shortcake

Canned berries are fine!
Fresh, still-hot Drop Biscuits from Jiffy Mix (they are really good)
Sour Cream on top instead of whipped

Race you to the kitchen-- that one's quick but this one's FAST:

One local culinary genius makes a simple, whine-evoking dessert cornbread (not really but can be) by dropping a goodly number of dollops of softened cream cheese into the batter once it's in the pan. Oh MAN..... You don't know it's going to be in there but then it IS.... How much cream cheese? Try it with cupcakes first (one large per), and let experience guide from there. I'm prety sure you could do that with pumpkin bread muffins too, and get a good knockoff of pumpkin roll; I'd add pecans on top.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: tarheel
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 03:46 PM

peg makes the best homemade Lemon Meringue Pies,on earth!
she makes them from "scratch" too!
i remember once when my son was still a little boy,peg made some reference to wishing that she had the ingrediants to make a pie or cake with!
then my son asked the big question!
"mom,don't you have any scratch?"
makes it all worthwhile watching your kids grow up!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 05:13 PM

LilyFestre told us:


For me, it's a close call between carrot cake and creme brulee. Since creme bruless isn't an option, I'll take the carrot cake!

LilyFestre, will you marry me? We're soulmates!

Oh, come to think of it, I can't. My wife won't let me.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 05:37 PM

Since the topic, as usual, has slithered sideways from the limited list in the 'test', I will now reveal what 'may' be the two choices I'd have to decide between for the dessert in 'my last meal'.

1) A cranberry-pecan pie made by a friend of a friend. Not too sweet, but...wow.
2) A homemade **Gooseberry** pie....again, not over sweetened.

I think it would be the Gooseberry, but if I were condemned on Death Row, I'd bribe the judge to postpone it at the last minute, so I could beg a 2nd last meal.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Dessert?
From: Scoville
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 10:23 AM

1) My aunt's mother's sour rhubarb pie
2) tiramisu
3) tres leches cake


And here's a blue clicky for the Pavlova.