I Heart Dessert

I’ve been searching for a particular Haagen-Dazs ice cream flavor for a month now. I first learned of it through the food network, when they showed a special on creating a new ice cream flavor for Haagen-Dazs and contestants from around the nation could enter and compete. The winner of the contest created a Sticky Toffee Pudding Ice Cream and after taking my first spoonful of it, I instantly knew why this ice cream flavor won. It was creamy, had the right sweetness, a hint of cinnamon, swirls of toffee sauce and bits of moist brown sugar cake. It tasted like heaven! And I must say not that many ice cream flavors taste like heaven or even come close to it. My roomates and I had agreed that if we were to die tomorrow, we would eat a whole barrel of it. Unfortunately, Sticky Toffee Pudding Ice Cream is a limited edition flavor, so it will only be available until January of next year. So, I’ll be back at the store tomorrow to buy a few more pints and I’m just in luck because Albertsons is offering a 2 for $5 special!

So, the other day I went to Marie Callendar’s with a few friends to have lunch and also to make use of my birthday club freebie (see previous post). I ordered my favorite, artichoke and mushroom chicken …this is a dish everyone must try! It’s chicken breast on top of a bed of rice covered with this great creamy sauce with plenty of sliced mushrooms and artichokes. When it came around to dessert time, I ordered a slice of my favorite, boston creme pie, but as soon as I said my order to the waitress, she immediately gave me a what the hell are you talking about, you must be crazy look. I repeated my order again, thinking that she must have just heard me wrong and then she tells me that they dont have that kind of pie. I tell her that there must be some mistake because I always order this particular pie here, and so she tells me that she’ll ask just incase she was misinformed. She comes back and tells me the worst possible news, they don’t make boston creme pies anymore and they dont know if or when they might carry it again. So, I just settled with a chocolate silk pie and with every bite, I thought to myself it’s just not the same.