Julia Altshuler writes:

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:

I'm a big fan of sweetcorn ice cream.

-Nat

Serene wrote:

[snip]
Pumpkin is a fruit.
[snip]
So is zucchini.

One... okay, maybe two... questions:

Is a fruit of a vegetable a fruit or a vegetable? Both? ;-P

Victor

Victor Sack wrote:
Serene wrote:

[snip]
Pumpkin is a fruit.
[snip]
So is zucchini.

One... okay, maybe two... questions:

Is a fruit of a vegetable a fruit or a vegetable? Both? ;-P

The fruit and the vegetable(s) are different parts of the plant.
Some plants have edible fruit and vegetable parts -- for instance,
the flower of a zucchini (courgette) is edible, and it's a
vegetable. The fruit is the long green thing most people think of
when they think of eating the plant.

Serene

Fred/Libby Barclay wrote:
Isn't the gist of Jerry Seinfeld's wife's book to get kids to eat
veggies?

I think she hid carrots or spinach in brownies.


Those are examples that I was trying to avoid. I know that if you take
a strong flavor like chocolate or pure sugar you can hide a small amount
of another flavor in it. But I wasn't thinking of that. If you left
the spinach out of the brownies, you'd still have brownies. I want
desserts where the vegetable is the main event, the way you can't make
carrot cake without carrots or the way you can't make sweet potato pie
without sweet potatoes.


I like the tomato or sweet corn ice cream idea.


I suppose Chinese sweet bean paste qualifies, so peanut butter and
chocolate combinations would have to qualify too (but it still feels
like cheating).


Beets are so sweet that there should be a dessert associated with them,
but there isn't a classic. Same with parsnips. You can make a pie with
them, but I haven't tried it, and it doesn't seem like it would taste good.


These ideas are all good. I wonder why some, like carrot cake, have
caught on while others haven't.


--Lia

On Apr 27, 10:01*am, "James Silverton"
wrote:

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.

When I get bento, there's almost always a small piece of
whatchacallit;
the sweet omelet that is sometimes found on top of a ball of sushi
rice.
Tamago?

Anyway, I usually eat it last and think of it as dessert.

Cindy Hamilton

bean pie
mock apple pie made with zucchini

Tara

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:09:38 -0400, Tara
wrote:

bean pie

and bean topped shaved ice

Tara

Tara wrote on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:09:38 -0400:

T bean pie
T mock apple pie made with zucchini

Are apples so expensive that you want to replace them with
squash?

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:24:05 GMT, "James Silverton"
wrote:

Tara wrote on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:09:38 -0400:

T mock apple pie made with zucchini

Are apples so expensive that you want to replace them with
squash?

I've never made or tasted zucchini pie, but if I had a glut of
zucchini and I wanted to make something new, I'd give it a try.

I believe most zucchini dessert/ bread/ muffin recipes are inspired
by the desire to use up some zucchini. I have seen recipes for sweet
zucchini preserves.

Tara

Serene wrote:

Victor Sack wrote:

One... okay, maybe two... questions:

Is a fruit of a vegetable a fruit or a vegetable? Both? ;-P

The fruit and the vegetable(s) are different parts of the plant.
Some plants have edible fruit and vegetable parts -- for instance,
the flower of a zucchini (courgette) is edible, and it's a
vegetable. The fruit is the long green thing most people think of
when they think of eating the plant.

I would phrase it differently. A plant raised for food is a vegetable
and every vegetable consists of roots, stems, stalks, branches, leaves,
flowers and fruit. So, paraphrasing Jeffrey Steingarten, asking
whether, say, a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable is akin to asking
whether that large gray wrinkled tube over there is a trunk or an
elephant.

Victor

Julia Altshuler wrote:

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.

Carrot kheer or gajjar kheer.

I'm thinking of desserts where there's a significant amount of
vegetable, not something sneaked in where it doesn't have flavor.

--Lia

Bean pie
Courgette/zucchini brownies
Rhubarb bread
Puddings made with sweet potatoes or purple yams (ubu)
Various squashes simmered in coconut milk
Carrot jam

There is a recipe somewhere for pie made from avocados.

Arri London wrote:

There is a recipe somewhere for pie made from avocados.


This one is intriguing. I imagine it could be related to shoo-fly or
buttermilk pie, very creamy and with that slight avocado flavor.


A quick google yields this:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Avocado-Pie/Detail.aspx
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Fruit/AvocadoPie.htm
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/rec...Pie62862.shtml


--Lia

Arri London wrote:

There is a recipe somewhere for pie made from avocados.

I have seen recipes for avocado ice cream. Supposed to be good.

Christine

Christine Dabney wrote:
Arri London wrote:
There is a recipe somewhere for pie made from avocados.

I have seen recipes for avocado ice cream. Supposed to be good.

A couple of our local Vietnamese places offer avocado milkshakes.
They're *delicious*.

Serene

On Mon 28 Apr 2008 05:29:51p, Serene told us...

Christine Dabney wrote:
Arri London wrote:
There is a recipe somewhere for pie made from avocados.

I have seen recipes for avocado ice cream. Supposed to be good.

A couple of our local Vietnamese places offer avocado milkshakes.
They're *delicious*.

Serene


I occasionally make avocado ice cream at home and put pistachios in it.

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Wayne Boatwright
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