Is fruit dessert?
Of course I don't mean that fruit can't be a wonderful ending to a good meal. What could be better than serving crisp apples and passing around a bowl of walnuts in their shell (warm them in the oven) to have with the apples. But is that dessert?
Bananas Foster, peach cobbler and cherries jubilee are definitely dessert, but are they fruit?
I think not.
The closest I can think of would be something like peche melba or poire helene, where the poached peach or pear is accompanied by -- but not overwhelmed by -- ice cream and raspberry or chocolate sauce.
I leave you with this quote from Jason Love:
"Fruit only angers my need for chocolate."
(Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg News)
Comments
Ordinarily, I would say that fruit and chocolate are separate things. But today I had the most perfectly ripe nectarine, and it satisfied my hard-core sweet tooth much more than anything else has this week.
Posted by: sarahkk | August 21, 2007 3:11 PM
I agree with sarahkk...the nectarines from Reid's Orchards have been wonderfully sweet this year.
Posted by: Hal Laurent | August 21, 2007 3:49 PM
I'm a die-hard sugar freak, but a dead-ripe peach from Weber's Farm Market in Parkville is so wonderful that it satisfies my dessert "jones."
Posted by: Dottie | August 22, 2007 9:34 AM
I am not arguing that a perfectly ripe piece of fruit is not a wonderful snack because it certainly is, but when I want desert it probably has some flour and sugar and probably chocolate involved though flour, sugar and fruit can also be great ingredients.
Posted by: Regina | August 22, 2007 12:13 PM