Saturday, January 12, 2013

Dessert the Frugal Fifth Course Frugal Foods and Stylish Recipes Professional & University Dining Etiquette


Over the Counter Etiquette
by Harold Almon
baesoe.com
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin


Dessert is to be the fifth course with or without coffee. Coffee can be served after.
When the dessert course is served formally, it may begin with a salad plate passed with a doily, a finger bowl, and flatware placed atop it.

Informally, dessert service is to be brought in and set in place on top of a side table. Dessert can be served in a saucer champagne glass set atop an underlying (B&B) plate.

Each plate for it can be passed or served and set in place when it is served.

Get serving trays and bowls pitchers, lots of them. Set each dessert atop a tray or in a bowl. Indoors avoid serving desserts out of containers.

Learn to make one dessert that is great. You can opt to learn where get one that people will, and have a craving for more of it for a long, long time. Share your dessert with anyone you invite to eat with you, eat it, only sparingly. In some circles, a signature drink is suitable dessert substitute. Serve each visitor in your environment something that resembles dessert.

Dessert can be dark chocolate anything. Suggestions are individual desserts from the deli. Get

Chocolate Brownies (Rich & Chewy,) especially when you can buy one and get one free. You can get

Chocolate candy: Dove Dark Chocolate, (hearts when you can get it belongs on a plate. You can serve chocolate coins. Chocolate pieces may be obtained discounted the day after most Holidays.

You may serve:

Chocolate mousse in Chocolate Cups

– just so you can say you have had it. You can later replace it with low fat chocolate pudding or

Anthony’s Chocolate Mousse cake

Cookies: Cookies with chocolate in them or on them could be served with or without ice cream

Chocolate Petits Fours
Chocolate Profiteroles
Chocolate Gateau
Chocolate Pistachio Terrine
Chocolate Pot De Crème
German Chocolate Cake
Grandmother’s Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake, or a
Mini Éclair

You might serve Chocolate New York Cheese Cake. Get
Have a little extra left get

Biscotti and coffee, or holy red wine a la Italy.


For dessert you may want to served something cold

Dark Chocolate Ice Cream Bar w/o the stick on a plate

Dark Chocolate Gelato by the quantity unit pack. Place it in a bowl with an underlying plate. Try it; try to eat it slowly. You may serve

Chocolate Hazelnut gelato, or

Chocolate gelato squares: gelato nestled between chocolate ‘smore or Key lime graham. You could serve

Chocolate-Orange Sorbet, or

Vanilla ice cream and dark chocolate sauce can be served as a dessert. Drizzle the plate with chocolate. Place ice cream on it or place it in a bowl with an underlying plate.

Let Chocolate Shell pour over your ice cream.

Optionally add one or two strawberries with or without chocolate on or in them.
You might serve Cranberry sherbet with vodka sauce, or chocolate sauce. (Buy ice cream only on sale.)

Get an Ice Cream Scoop or Wedge.

You might serve Chocolate Covered or Chocolate filled Strawberries. (Make Them Yourself.) Get

Hershey Crack in Shell; (it is or can be your friend.) Get

Strawberries, a

Peeler and

Wax paper.

Hold each strawberry by the stem and dip each into a small bowl of Chocolate Crack and Shell. Place on wax paper and refrigerate. Avoid getting chocolate on the stem.

You can use a peeler as an insert to open strawberry just behind the stem. Pour in Hershey Chocolate Crack in Shell. Close opening. Place on wax paper and refrigerate.

Non Chocolate Dessert can include

Artisan Tiramisu Bar Cake,
Angel Food Cake,
Hot apple brown Betty,

You can serve Lemon sweet squares,

Mini Cheesecake plain or fruit topped, or

Crème Brule from the Deli. Getting this Deli prepared is OK. Transfer each to another cup if you must. Frugally you could buy and serve just

Oatmeal Almond Raisin Cookies.

Informally you could serve fresh fruit sliced or unsliced with or without a dip. Fruit can be baked or micro waved. Organic apples (may be cooked or baked once pierced like a potato.) Each can be topped with ice cream or cinnamon.

Cherries and Raspberries (and bananas) can go with ice cream. Back to the fruit stand.

Baked Figs and sugar; get the recipe from the marketer.

It has been seen where you just serve Oranges. Each can be served whole or sliced Chinese restaurant style. Nectarines may make a great and more frugal substitute. Each can be segmented with or without something poured over it. A frugal dessert may just be a half slice or two or Watermelon. It could be served cut in chunks or shaped in balls.

Pears, cut on a bias can be placed on a plate.

Most any Fruit can be served on a drizzled bed of Chocolate.

My Palate® Almon Hitt – Dessert

Hot Apple Betty
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Chocolate Dark Candy
Chocolate Dark Ice Cream Bar
(remove stick add sauce)
Chocolate Mousse
Chocolate Sauce
Chocolate Syrup
Cookies Chocolate Biscotti
Figs Baked
Flan
Fruit Drizzled in Chocolate
Gelato
Lemon Sweet Squares
New York Style Cheese Cake
Ramen Mable and Brown Sugar Bowl
Ramen Butterscotch Cookies
Crème Brulee
Rice Pudding
Sherbet
Cranberry Sherbet
Sparkling Dessert Wine
Champagne
Holy Vino
Sparkling Grape Juice
Coffee

Know bake fruit pies and tarts can make a great dessert. You can take a class and learn to bake a fruit pie.

You might wish to serve berry quesadillas as dessert.
What to do

1) Place berries, mint, and maple syrup in a small bowl and toss it in a microwavable bowl.

2) Place cream cheese, sugar, vanilla powder, and lemon and orange zest in a bowl and combine.

3) Heat two tortillas in a griddle or large pan or until crisp.

4) Plan a thin layer of the cream cheese mixture on both and spoon on berry mixture, fold, and serve.

Sauce for a dessert is to be served in a sauce boat and ladled onto it. Sauce can be pre-ladled onto a dessert.

You can save the squeeze bottle. You still have not spent twenty dollars.

Informally you might serve yoghurt topped with walnuts or blackberries or blueberries.

But just in case, if you just have Ramen for dessert you can make…

Ramen Mable and Brown Sugar Bowl
What to do:

Boil noodles. Toss/save spice packet. Crush ramen into a microwave bowl. Pour milk to cover Add syrup and brown sugar. Heat on high. Stir occasionally.

You can add diced apples, and cinnamon, or
Banana or Blue berries. You could make and serve

Ramen Butterscotch Cookies
Heat butterscotch chips, milk and butter until chips are completely melted.

Crumble in uncooked ramen and mix. Place spoon sized balls on wax paper, refrigerate until cool.

Dessert Wine at Table
Dessert wine can be sparkling water, apple cider, or Italian soda.
Each of these can be decanted or poured in a pitcher prior to be brought to the table.

Champagne can be served with dessert. It can be opened at the table.

For after dinner you could serve a Digestif

My Palate® Almon Hitt – Digestifs could be

Amaretto
Amari
Bitters
Brandy
Grappa
Limon cello
Herbal Liqueur
Liqueur
Madeira
Ouzo
Port
Sherry Tequila
Whisky

When a guest stays to long, you can make a tray of good bye drinks: grapefruit juice, prune juice, and cold water.

Glass/Pitcher/Tray

And of these the only one calorie free is water. Learn what you can eat. What you do eat. And learn what you can burn.

Dessert is to be the fifth course with or without coffee.

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