The Dessert Thread

[Mark The Homer]

Fresh strawberries!

Today is Memorial Day, 2025, and strawberries are in! There's nothing quite like fresh strawberries. Pick 'em in the morning, enjoy them in the evening. Absolutely outstanding.

Around here, Butler's Orchard is best known, but we prefer Larriland Farm. It's closer, it's a little less known and a little less crowded. But it's best to go on a weekday.

Here is what $20 will get you. They sell you the box, and it's up to you to get as many strawberries as you can into the box. Pretend there are twenty more strawberries on top. My wife was rinsing the first twenty when the photo was taken.

Strawberries! Eat them in a bowl with vanilla ice cream. Or if you make shortbread, mash them up into the shortbread and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Maybe a little whipped cream if you want. Amazingly delicious!

God bless America.

 

[Mark The Homer]

Blueberry pie made from scratch by my wife for Memorial Day. Add some Breyers. All is well with the world.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

we pick fruit at Hollin Farms.

Blueberry pie is my second favorite kind of pie.

I LOVE a perfectly made apple pie. But it has to be perfect. There are a lot of bad apple pies out there. My wife makes good apple pies. She’s the baker in the family. But every so often one comes out perfect. And I could eat the whole thing.

 

[DWinzit]

New York style cheesecake is my favorite dessert. While I like it most plain, it is certainly good with many toppings like berries.

One note, while graham cracker crust is the norm, I'm not a big fan of that.

Amazingly so far no chocolate in the thread

 

[Mark The Homer]

My Mom made great pies. When I was a kid, my favorite was apple, and she'd make two pies for my birthday, one for the family and one for me. My wife makes awesome pies. My daughter DLSF makes outstanding pies. My daughter even started a company called "The Midnight Pie Company" when she was in high school. She had a logo and everything. On weekends and in the summer, she'd bake pies all night and the teenagers would come over and hang out on the screened back porch and do teenager stuff while the parents were sleeping. We were known as "the cool parents." Hey, at least we knew where she was. I would literally get up early for work and one or two of them would still be on the back porch. But she made a lot of pies and got a lot of practice, so she can make a damn good pie. And a nice flakey flavorful crust is crucial. Note the artistic work on the top of this pie - that thing on top is a tiny sculpture of the end of a cherry branch modeled out of pie crust...

 

[DWinzit]

My Mom made great pies. When I was a kid, my favorite was apple, and she'd make two pies for my birthday, one for the family and one for me. My wife makes awesome pies. My daughter DLSF makes outstanding pies. My daughter even started a company called "The Midnight Pie Company" when she was in high school. She had a logo and everything. On weekends and in the summer, she'd bake pies all night and the teenagers would come over and hang out on the screened back porch and do teenager stuff while the parents were sleeping. We were known as "the cool parents." Hey, at least we knew where she was. I would literally get up early for work and one or two of them would still be on the back porch. But she made a lot of pies and got a lot of practice, so she can make a damn good pie.

I am not real big on sweets, especially in the morning but I found my moms leftover apple pie was my favorite breakfast!

 

[Boone]

Like DWinzit I do not have a big sweet tooth. I do love a good piece of pie but my favorite dessert is blackberry cobbler. Probably nostalgia driving that one but I did a lot of blackberry picking in my Northern Virginia youth and my mom would make cobbler using bisquick that would be hard to top.

 

[Mark The Homer]

"Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken
And I didn't know a thing about pain
Life was just a tire swing"

-Jimmy Buffett, 1946-2023

 

[skinsmarydu]

Mom always made our favorite for our birthdays, mine was always cherry cheesecake.

But hailing from Winchester, I'm an apple pie fan. Absolutely love anything with apples. Dad would melt a slice of American cheese on his slice.

 

[Boone]

My mom probably made the exact same cherry cheesecake. It was pretty good.

Hard to beat pecan pie. Or pumpkin pie. Or blueberry pie. Or apple pie. So yeah, you know where my tastes lie....

 

[Mark The Homer]

The cherry pie my wife made a couple days ago was off the chart. I even said it out loud. I said, "Seriously, I think this may be the best cherry pie I've ever had." I said that to her. And that says a lot because my Mom and my wife and my daughter make a damn good cherry pie.

But my daughter DLSF makes a damn good pie. She's got some kinda magical thing goin' on with the crust.

And DLSF is the one who had made pecan pie for me. Pecan pie is damn good pie bro.

Cherry cheesecake? Oh my goodness. Who does not like cheesecake? I am pretty sure I've never had cherry cheesecake. I need to add that to my bucket list.

 

[RedWolf]

I am not a cherry cheesecake fan but prefer strawberries or raspberries or blueberries. My favorite cheesecake is from Spain. Basque cheesecake. It is very light and fluffy not dense like a New York cheesecake. I love American apple pie (no cheese, real vanilla ice cream is my preference). I also love Tarte Tatin.

 

[Mark The Homer]

Gotta get that cherry pie in here before it's gone... this is last night... farm picked last weekend. I like to use a spoon in this situation...

 

[Boone]

This past year, myself and a good golfing joined a local golf club. It's a really great golf course, with super-friendly staff. Best decision I have made in a long time. Despite being a small unpretentious community course, they have a lot of 'events' - one being Friday night 'dinners' at the 'Club'. My wife wanted to check it out, largely because the course is only a couple miles away from where our kids went to High School and she knows 2/3rds of the surrounding community.

So along with my golfing buddy and his wife, we went.

Dinner was good. And predictably, my wife literally knew 1/2 the attendees.

But the big surprise was dessert. I am normally NOT a dessert guy. It's rare I will order it. But there were two desserts offered. The first was Key Lime Pie. I love Key Lime Pie, but again, not really being a 'dessert guy', I didn't feel compelled to order it. But the 2nd option was 'Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce'. I love bourbon, and I was intrigued. I ordered it (as did my buddie's wife who is one of the best cooks I have ever met). I jokingly predicted a dish made with stale hotdog buns and a shot of Jack D.

Holy cow. What we got was amazing. The closest thing to crack in food-form I will ever encounter. It was warm, crusty, sweet goodness. I didn't order more 'to go' as our guests did, but I'll admit I wanted to.

I mean - it was THAT good.