What is your favorite snack &/or dessert?
Are you a sweet or salty fanatic? Or both! I love really good desserts! Can't wait to try Momofuku Milk Bar (wanna try the Pistachio soft serve and a share & compare some cake slices with friends) and Bouchon Bakery! (wanna try the TKO and Nutter Butter) Would like to try a macaron-but don't know of a really good place--any suggestions? Got the idea to try both, Momofuku and Bouchon based on the Serious Eats reviews--Love a great cupcake too!!
I also love, love, love the plain frozen yogurt from 40 carrots in Bloomingdales! Too bad you can't find it elsewhere. Or can you?
Garrett Popcorn is another great find...To my surprise I just discovered a shop in NYC. Went to Garrett popcorn shop while in Chicago!! "Oh My God" is all I have to say!!!! Anyone out there ever have this incredible stuff!! .
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20 Comments:
I am mainly a savory person. BUT... once I get a sweet in my mouth there is no turning back. I am a fiend when it comes to that first bite of sweet yum. I like almost everything except popcorn (because I always get it stuck in my teeth), but anything from cookies to cakes to candy to pastries I am on my knees begging for mercy.
pjracz10 at 7:37PM on 01/09/09
Nutella, in, on or with anything, or just by itself is all I need to be satisfied.
dmcavanagh at 7:50PM on 01/09/09
gregg's death by chocolate cake.
dearrie at 8:02PM on 01/09/09
All savory, all the time!
izatryt at 8:07PM on 01/09/09
Savory! But, if I do eat something sweet, I have to follow it by savory. I can't end on sweet. Anyone else like that? Or, is it vice versa?
meg3j at 8:14PM on 01/09/09
caramel with fleur de sel.
Nonny at 8:21PM on 01/09/09
I love (and I know it's weird) a bowl of oatmeal at night with brown sugar and cocoa powder mixed in. If I'm feeling bad I'll add a swirl of PB also :-)
jo_jo_ba at 8:41PM on 01/09/09
Popcorn! Plain, air-popped, no oil popcorn...with a little salt
Traveller at 9:24PM on 01/09/09
I love dulce de leche but restrict myself severely or else I would be twice my size...My snacks of choice tend to be dried fruits (mainly dates, figs and raisins), fresh fruit, rice cakes and muesli but if calories didn't exist or I was a freak that could eat anything and not pack on the pounds, I would be munching on croissants, churros, chocolate cookies and the like.
HappyMuncher at 10:52PM on 01/09/09
I don't fall in the extreme category either way. I love citrus or the Korean version of Yakult at the end of the meal, which is why I love Korean restaurants!
The most memorable dishes when I go out tend to be desserts though. I think it's because they tend to be presented with the most "wow!" factor. #1 on the list is ginger creme brulee at a neighborhood restaurant (Parallax). It wasn't very sweet, the essence of the ginger was present. It was perfect. I don't think we walked off the calories on the walk home.
My obsession with sweetened condensed milk is an anomaly. I can eat that straight, but it's the sweetness that stops me from eating past 3 tsp. It's that vanilla-butterscotch taste that I dig.
Cassaendra at 10:54PM on 01/09/09
Salty pretzels. Sometimes that is my dinner. With a dessert of salted pistachios!
lamora at 1:48AM on 01/10/09
normally its anything salty but lately I made a batch of indian cashew candy and even though its cloyingly sweet, I cant seem to stop eating it. I usually make it every year when SO goes hunting, because if I dont go they done eat before they go out and its a good pick me up with no wheat to make a friend of ours sick.
huneybumper at 7:57AM on 01/10/09
Omigoodness, where to begin. And what's with all you Salty Freaks?? Here are some favorite sweets:
Momofuku and Levain cookies
Batch, Chikalicious, Butter Lane, Sugar Sweet Sunshine and Out of the Kitchen cupcakes
Cafe Claude and Amai croissants
Patisserie Margot almond croissants
Teuscher champagne truffles
il Laboratorio del Gelato lavender gelato
Doughnut Plant dulce de leche doughnut
Bonbons from Kee's, Chocolat Moderne and Vosges
Anything from Dessert Truck
Sweet Freak at 8:21AM on 01/10/09
a nice piece of cheese ... really takes the edge off the late night munchies for me..... sometimes a piece of fruit is a nice accompanyment to that.... like a sliced pear and a piece of regianno.
pooch at 10:19AM on 01/10/09
I have so many!
* fruit and cheese - you know, fruit & cheese should be a separate food group. It can be a starter, a dinner, a dessert, a breakfast...
* pistachios (and/or pistachio ice cream:-)) or cashews or almonds
* a couple of crackers with cheesy salsa or tahini sauce
* plain salted popcorn
* bamba
* a minty Three Musketeers bar (used to be Wispa, but I can't get it here)
* a Jaffa cake or two
* a dark chocolate truffle or two (I always keep a box of good Belgian ones on hand)
* a spoonful of Nutella
* a spoonful of dulce de leche
@Cass - when I was little, I absolutely adored sweetened condensed milk! Now I always make it into dulce de leche, and yes, I can't eat more than a teaspoon or two because it's way too sweet - but oh so good!
If I order dessert when eating out, it will most likely be creme brulee, creme caramel, flan or panna cotta.
brooke29 at 11:39AM on 01/10/09
I tend to lean toward savory, but this Christmas I made milk chocolate pretzel bark. OMG! It was to die for! Plus it satisfied my sweet AND salty cravings.
Josdean at 12:25PM on 01/10/09
the baklava from the pastry guy in the Or Akiva mall on Fridays
or McVities Chocolate Digestives if I can get someone to bring them back for me...
cowprintrabbit at 2:26PM on 01/10/09
Definitely sweet snacker and dessert-er! Gotta end with something sweet at the end of a meal, like a small square of chocolate (and it better be dark). My favorite dessert would definitely have to be frozen yogurt, though you can talk me into a rich, creamy cheesecake every once in awhile!
And, Jo_jo_ba I TOTALLY agree with you about the oatmeal--I don't think it's weird at all! I add pumpkin to mine, with splenda to sweeten and a bit of dark cocoa stirred in at the end. I eat it for lunch almost everyday, and I feel like I'm eating dessert!! (It's healthful though, I swear :) )
luswim06 at 10:07PM on 01/10/09
Whole wheat or multi grain toast and chunky peanut butter
Stilton on Kalvi Thin Crisps
Crisp tart apples with cheddar cheese
Greek yogurt mixed w/a little maple syrup with either apples or strawberries to dip (not mixed in)
Crunchy Cheeto's
chisai at 10:53AM on 01/11/09
hummus & pitas
gourmetgal at 11:07AM on 01/11/09