Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption
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JB
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Tex Mex desertsFor an upcoming regional food day (not this region you understand, but a region) we're after a tex mex desert. Any suggestions?
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judith
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Watermelon.
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JB
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Well we were hoping for something involving a bit more cooking skills. This is for a gifted pupils cookery summer school Mrs JB is running.
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judith
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Watermelon scooped out to make a bowl, filled with lots of little melon balls of different colours.
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sean
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According to the Oxford Companion to Food: sweet tamales, candied sweet potato, crystallized fruit, quince or guava pastes, dulce de leche type stuff.
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Bugs
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Oh good, Sean set the precedent for quoting books  - a little book of Treacodactyl's ownership which I have absorbed in to the collective called Cooking the Mexican Way has
- little biscuits, pastelitos de boda
- tropical fruit salad
- mango ice cream
-a curious pineapple dessert and chocolate blancmange, both of which I'm unconvinced by
- chongos zamoranos which is apparently a prettier name for curds in syrup and she says is very popular in Mexico
- dulce de calabaza en tacha, which is stewed pumpkin in sugar syrup (she says pumpkin is more eaten as a dessert than a veg),
- bunuelos, tortillas fried and shaken with sugar and cinnamon
- cajeta, which reads like dulce de leche.
I have carefully revived my touch typing to put the original names as they might be googlable but if that doesn't work I can try to dig out more details.
Sorry this is Mexican...I'm not really sure where the Mex becomes a bit Tex in food...
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Gill
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How about chocolate chip muffins? Sopaillas served with maple syrup?
Slightly east of Texas/New Mexico, but still popular there, is key lime pie.
My favourite southern American dessert has to be bread pudding (a common dessert in Texas, I believe) served with whisky & ginger ice cream. If kiddies are going to be there, I suppose you could leave out the whisky - it'll still taste gorgeous.
Gill
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lettucewoman
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chihuahua? 
....it's a mexican desert area.... 
Well someone had to say it!!!!  
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JB
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Mrs JB has asked me to say thanks for the suggestions (with the possible exception of chihuahua )
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