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What your dessert says about you
Gathering around a crackling fireplace with friends and copious amounts of food is the quintessential spirit of the winter season. We’ve all accepted that we are packing on a few extra pounds to hibernate our way through for survival.
Knowing this, we still hesitate when reaching for dessert, wondering whether the next bite will perfectly finish off a meal, or be the one that pushes us over the food coma edge.
So if you’ve graciously offered up your home for a mid-winter’s feast, know that what your friends show up bearing can be as telling as what they show up wearing. So while they are side-eyeing your beach blanket masquerading as a curtain, feel free to judge the desserts they hand over at the front door.
Grocery store bought pie: If this friend isn’t going to go through the blood, sweat and tears necessary to make a pie by hand, admittedly a lost art, he or she is lazy, lame, or both, and probably peeled the “Discounted for Quick Sale” sticker off in the car outside your house. Be wary of this friend, they are also likely to show up to a cottage weekend having conveniently “forgotten” their booze at home. Unless, of course, it is an organic pie from the neighbourhood’s best local bakery. No one complains about good taste.
A truffle or a trifle: Not to be confused, one is a decadent ball of rich chocolate and the other an impossible tower of flavours. Assuming they are homemade, either points to a friend that is true, committed, and knows their way around a kitchen. They’ve thought about what you and the other guests deserve to finish off their meal with and have settled for nothing but the best.
A truffle requires commitment and attention to details as timing is everything when making these beauties. This friend takes pride in their work and believes in quality over quantity.
The friend who can create a delicious trifle is essentially a renaissance man of dessert and should be invited to every party thereafter. Taste pairings can be tricky and the presentation difficult to perfect.
Because what they show up bearing can be as telling as what they show up wearing.
Gathering around a crackling fireplace with friends and copious amounts of food is the quintessential spirit of the winter season. We’ve all accepted that we are packing on a few extra pounds to hibernate our way through for survival.
Knowing this, we still hesitate when reaching for dessert, wondering whether the next bite will perfectly finish off a meal, or be the one that pushes us over the food coma edge.
So if you’ve graciously offered up your home for a mid-winter’s feast, know that what your friends show up bearing can be as telling as what they show up wearing. So while they are side-eyeing your beach blanket masquerading as a curtain, feel free to judge the desserts they hand over at the front door.
Grocery store bought pie: If this friend isn’t going to go through the blood, sweat and tears necessary to make a pie by hand, admittedly a lost art, he or she is lazy, lame, or both, and probably peeled the “Discounted for Quick Sale” sticker off in the car outside your house. Be wary of this friend, they are also likely to show up to a cottage weekend having conveniently “forgotten” their booze at home. Unless, of course, it is an organic pie from the neighbourhood’s best local bakery. No one complains about good taste.
A truffle or a trifle: Not to be confused, one is a decadent ball of rich chocolate and the other an impossible tower of flavours. Assuming they are homemade, either points to a friend that is true, committed, and knows their way around a kitchen. They’ve thought about what you and the other guests deserve to finish off their meal with and have settled for nothing but the best.
A truffle requires commitment and attention to details as timing is everything when making these beauties. This friend takes pride in their work and believes in quality over quantity.
The friend who can create a delicious trifle is essentially a renaissance man of dessert and should be invited to every party thereafter. Taste pairings can be tricky and the presentation difficult to perfect.