| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/16/2008 4:26:41 PM | So when it comes to food, what's that guilty pleasure that you just can't do without? Is it chocolate, fat juicy burgers and cheese fries, lobster swimming in butter, cake - heavy on the frosting? Yes you know it isn't good for you, but what food make you feel so good that you can just never see giving it up?
I have a couple. One not so healthy and one politically incorrect.
My cholesterol is an issue but is currently under control. But great ribs/barbeque will always have a special place in (some would say around) my heart. I just can't turn it down, although I try to keep it under wraps and don't eat it as often as I used to. Honorable mentions to ham and good smoked bacon.
I've only had it a few times, but I fell in love with fois gras the first time I tried it, and time hasn't dulled the feeling. Yes I know how it's raised, so please keep the flames to yourself.  | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/16/2008 7:57:21 PM | Oh my! I am a savory type! Would have to be my all time fave, lobster and steak. Nice juicy lobster, lots of melted hot butter, new york strip, done medium rare and a nice sparkling white wine! I never get the chance to do that often but when I do?OMG I think I have died and gone to heaven! | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/16/2008 8:05:07 PM | Fried foods.
I would die happy if my last meal consisted of:
fried shrimp
fried chicken wings
fried mushrooms
fried cheese sticks
fried onion rings
fried potato skins
 
or...
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/16/2008 8:39:08 PM | | Wait... None of the responses involved sweet foods. I personally like strawberries with natural yogurt! You guys should try that one! It is DELICIOUS!!! That is what I have for dinner every night. | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/16/2008 9:40:52 PM | I have a few once-a-year treats, seasonal and holiday things, comfort foods from growing up... Don't care about cholesterol or that cardio- myopathy crap... moderation in all things.
Once a year I make a Honey Cake. In the same 9x13 pan my grandmother used to make honey cake, with the same recipe. Dark, rich, moist, filled with honey and coffee... Never lasts more than a week. only a few days in my son is home.
The other sweet indulgence is Coke. Yeah, I know, but this is the special coke- not the new "classic" coke made with corn syrup, but REAL honest made with SUGAR coke. Two six-packs once a year, and not the same time as the honey cake.
Already been through the "talk" with the food police and medics- I still refuse to give up on the rare use of schmaltz, and kasha varnishkes, and fried matzoh, and pastrami, and bagels & lox... all ethnically 'cleansing' foods. The not-so-secret indulgences that make life worth living, and what the heck, you're not going to live forever, so why not enjoy while you can.
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/16/2008 9:51:28 PM | | Okay...if we are talking "sweet" literally that is kinda tough for me because I don't eat much sweet stuff. However...I do love homemade chocolate chip cookies with my coke in the morning. Unlike Caron...I AM talking about the classic coke, in a can. | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 2:32:14 AM | | My favourite sweet is home-made banoffee pie.With crushed digestive biscuits,cooked condensed milk,real bananas ,and whipped dairy cream. Only about 5000 calories,if you have a small slice,but what the hell!! | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 3:29:53 AM | i make the most divine chocolate truffle torte going
However its something i could easily live without, i think strawberries with fromage frais is something i love to eat every day but i dont like imported strawberries, i only buy whats in season  | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 5:04:01 AM | Charon, is this recipe close to the Honey Cake one you have? I'd love to make this one or yours. This one got 4 1/2 out of 5 stars on All Recipes.com. That's where I get all my ideas for cooking or baking.
Honey Cake
* 1 cup white sugar
* 1 cup honey
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 4 eggs
* 2 teaspoons grated orange zest
* 1 cup orange juice
* 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 3 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine sugar, honey, oil, eggs and orange zest. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the orange juice, mixing just until incorporated. Pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 7:12:59 AM | I indulge in these sweet faves of mine occasionally:
- Baskin Robbins Mint Ice Cream
- a Reese Whipps
Here's a couple more but they're not sweet, but I do enjoy sometimes:
- A Quiznos Sammie (roast beef/cheddar/horseradish)
- Lamb souvlaki dinner from my favourite Greek restaurant
- Wendy's Big Bacon Classic
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 7:51:34 AM | oh it has to be all those delicious stodgy puds we used to get at school dinner time...
treacle sponge and custard...
spotted d!ck with custard..
manchester tart..
jam roly poly and custard..
rice pudding with a blob of jam in the middle..
jam doughnut with custard..
chocolate sponge pudding with chocolate custard..
as you see out dinner ladies loved custard as did we kids.... yumm yummmm gosh im hungry now..... | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 9:15:32 AM | To have all my indulgences in one place you have to come to the Rats Restaurant in Hamilton, New Jersey. Not only will you have the best meal in the state, you will be able to go to the Grounds for Sculpture after wards. They have the best fois gras, wine list and everything that comes out of kitchen looks like it's too pretty to eat ( I force myself every time, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for really exceptional food)
For dessert, chocolate and strawberry, creme brulee, tira mi su.....coffee
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 10:21:21 AM | Dutch stroopwaffels , which are not only the proof that God exists - but that he/she is indeed Dutch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 12:02:35 PM | | I have a lovely recipe for French Silk Chocolate Pie that I make only during the holidays and it's quite simply the creamiest, silkiest chocolate pie ever! | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/17/2008 11:54:08 PM | Any of my pies .... don't know which one I like best ... maybe apple? or rhubarb ... My crust with anything on it I think. And a BR Jamocha Almond Fudge Single on a sugarcone....
I'd sure like to see the recipe for that French Silk Chocolate Pie. A restaurant in Wyoming used to have it, then changed to something else and that was the end of it. I wouldn't eat the replacement. And now I don't eat store bought pies at all. Someone else would have to order some and I'd look carefully at theirs before getting any.
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/18/2008 11:20:05 AM |
Charon, is this recipe close to the Honey Cake one you have? I'd love to make this one or yours.
It's close, but not quite it. I'll have to search my recipe cabinet, but the one I make has lots of double-strength brewed (perk) coffee, sliced almonds, MUCH less sugar, two or three different kinds of honey, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, but NO zest of anything. I think I may have posted it in an older honey thread, but am having a case of CRS this afternoon, and probably shouldn't be tying at all. 
If you're looking for a good honey cake, check the traditional Jewish recipe sites for Rosh HaShonah treats. | |
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| What are your favorite sweet indulgences?
Posted: 5/18/2008 12:06:37 PM | Indulgences, eh??
I could never go without my homemade spaghetti dinner.... complete with bruschetta or garlic bread with cheese, ceasar salad and a nice white zinfandel..... mmmmmmm
As far as sweets go..... I love chocolate covered cashews...... so terribly bad for you but oh, so good... I like to suck the chocolate off and then bite the nut..... damn.... going to have to go get some now..... | |
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