chefhelen wrote on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:14:53 -0500:


c "Andy" q wrote in message
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?? Julia Altshuler said...
??
?? I just finished talking about sweet potato pie in the
?? parsnips thread. It got me thinking about desserts with a
?? vegetable base. Add to this list, please:
??
?? Carrot cake
?? Pumpkin muffins
?? Pumpkin pie
?? Sweet potato pie
?? Zucchini bread.
??
?? There's an Indian carrot pudding with cardamom and a name
?? I can't remember that goes on the list too.
??
?? I'm thinking of desserts where there's a significant
?? amount of vegetable, not something sneaked in where it
?? doesn't have flavor.
??
?? --Lia
??
?? Julia,
??
?? I await the New Jersey "Fresh" tomato harvest. Sweet! Eat
?? 'em like apples.
??
?? Carrot cake as you mentioned is first rate!
??
?? Best,
??
?? Andy

c Rhubarb pie

Rhubarb pie is very good but rhubarb is one of those confusing
vegetables that most think of as fruit. Going the other way,
lots of people like rice pudding and there are cakes made using
ground rice flour. Another problem is the fruit, the tomato,
that is usually treated as a vegetable. A concoction that I
liked as a child was tomatoes with *sugar* and the sweetish
British cousin of mayonnaise, salad cream.. I remember the taste
as being reminiscent of strawberries!

After having lunch at a Japanese restaurant yesterday, it
occurred to me that tempura sweet potatoes (that I like a lot!)
or even squash are quite sweet and would make good desserts.


James Silverton
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