And without further a do, here it is:
While I was indulging in the above, something amusing happened at the table behind. A couple had ordered the apple pie, which I absolutely love. Some of you may remember my apple pie post (click here, if you’ve missed it), where I mentioned the fact that it always arrived on the plate looking like a total train wreck:
Said customers behind me were so taken aback by its appearance, that they felt compelled to enquire whether the pie had been subject to some kind of an accident. The waitress duly rushed back into the kitchen, emerging, a few seconds later, with an entire specimen, in order to illustrate to the dismayed diners that the pie crust didn’t lend itself to being sliced up and retaining its integrity.
I took the opportunity to take a pic of the ‘virgin’ pie:
The couple, by the way, greatly enjoyed eating their apple pie after they got over the shock 🙂
That is some pie! 🙂
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Yup… and look how it almost blots out my friend’s pregnant belly 😉
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That is one huge apple pie 🙂 looks good. Cheesecake is my absolute favorite 🙂 I just love love it. Too bad it is not too popular here in Hungary, So I don’t get to eat it very often.
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Cheesecake not popular in Hungary? Really??? I’m very surprised, considering it can be found pretty much everywhere (at least the baked kind) in Austria.
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The american kind of cheesecake, made from cream cheese is not popalar. But the baked cottage cheese cake and for example cottage cheese strudel are extremly popular here.
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Ah yes, that makes perfect sense 🙂
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Not a cheesecake fan. But I love the giant apple pie. I wonder if they always intended to bake the crumbling-and-falling-apart version, or if they just found that huge green pie dish one day and thought “how can we fill this?”
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My guess is as good as yours, LOL!
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Happy to have your caramel sauce any day.
That pie is HUGE!
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I’ll save it for you next time. Easy enough to just stick it in an email.
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Cheesecake is a cake I’d like to have too, and that one looks really yummy too!
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It wasn’t bad… but I do wonder about Spain’s predilection for ‘soggy’ desserts. I may have to write a post on this…
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uuh, a soggy dessert post sounds like the perfect evening story for my kids 🙂
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I’ll make sure it has plenty of pictures 😉
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I think the disheveled pie looks very sexy, with all its charms tumbling forth…
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Leaves nothing to the imagination, that one…
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Yummm!!
Sitting in my fridge right now is a white chocolate cheesecake on a shortbread crust. It is my foolproof go-to cheesecake recipe when I want something special … like together when I have my family gathered for dinner. Your photo reinforced my decision to have that cake! Again I say YUMMMM!
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Save me a slice! I’ll be round in just a minute. Well, make that 12 hours…
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Cake for everyone!!!!
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YEY!!!!
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If you ever have the opportunity to try New York style cheesecake, DO IT.
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I love it 🙂 Although I’ve not been to NY in ages, I’ve a selective memory for food-related things. Much like a good friend of mine, who doesn’t remember the first encounter with her husband at the dinner party they both attended, but she recalls every organoleptic detail of the delicious lamb tagine on her plate, as if she’d eaten it only yesterday.
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Ha! I love it!
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whoa, that’s a huge pie!! and what a great photo of it. ¿se dice torta de queso para cheesecake en español?
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Casi. Tarta de queso 🙂
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ah…si! claro 😉
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Mmm, that looks amazing! Love both cheesecake and apple pie! Eating a Jaffa Cake as a poor substitute 😦
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Jaffa Cakes!!! I so wish I had a packet or two…
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I also have a couple of packs of Terry’s Chocolate Orange and Caramel bars – courtesy of my mum 🙂
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Oooooooh, Terry’s Choc Orange!!!!!!
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I adore them 🙂 They never tap open for me like they do on the ads though!!
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False advertising, that. You ought to write in and complain. They might send you a whole box full 🙂
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Ooh, now you’re thinking!
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Cheesecake can often be a hit or miss affair. I prefer the baked cheesecakes – they are usually less sweet and my favourite was a New York recipe I used to bake myself! I think I’ll just have a piece of that pie – any custard to go with it?
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I love baked cheesecake, I prefer that to the other kind.
Ice cream with this pie, I’m afraid. Although Spain does do custardy desserts very well, I’ve never had it combined with pie here. A grave omission….
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That’s the biggest apple pie I’ve ever seen! The cheesecake looks good, but for me cheesecake has to have a biscuit base. You need the crunchy, salty butteriness to balance out the sweetness of the cake. It’s ages since I’ve had cheesecake – must make one…
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I’ve given you cravings… 😉
I know what you mean about a biscuit base with cheesecake, although my makes a different kind of base and it works very well.
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Oh lor’! Serious cheesecake 🙂 How go the preparations for your move?
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Don’t ask. LOL.
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Just carry on eating cheesecake. I never said a word! 🙂
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Good. You see how my procrastination strategy works, don’t you?
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I had the best apple crumble half an hour ago, so for once I can look at your pictures without drooling!
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You came prepared 😉
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So I’m sitting here in Jakarta attempting to work up the energy to go to the gym for a good workout… and what do I see? Mouthwatering cheese cake and tempting apple pie! You cruel goddess of cakes and more! Arrghhh!! Now I’m compelled to get out in a quest for yummy baked goods…. For shame!
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I take full responsibility 😉
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LOL, the poor waitress!
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Nah, she was quite chipper. Those customers weren’t being rude at all, just curious, and the waitress wasn’t overly busy at the time. It was all in good humour 🙂
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Now that IS a pie. 🙂 SD
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A pie for grown-ups 🙂
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Normally, I’m not much of a fan of cheesecake, but the one you showed looked pretty nice. And, of course, as you’ve noted, desserts here in America tend to be overly sweet. It’s really a pity. Less sugar would be healthier AND tastier.
Saludos,
Kim G
New Orleans, LA
Where we’ve had some wonderful food, but no cake so far.
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I see you’re holding out for dessert until you get to Mx 😉
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Actually, I had a very nice praline yesterday.
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There’s hope for you yet 🙂
[Devouring a raisin swirl as I type]
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Oh the horror of crumbled pie! If this is the worst thing that happens to one in Spain, no wonder you never have the kinds of exchanges that Linda has in Latvia.
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I could write a mock post deriding jamón…that might just do it 😉
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Jamon Serrano is pretty gross, and you’re hearing it from Carnivore #1
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Oh my… you’ve just put paid to all your potential future visas for Spain. We’ll have to meet in Latvia, after all!
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And you didn’t attack that big pie with a fork after it made its appearance?
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I was tempted… but I’d already eaten the cheesecake and didn’t want to seem too greedy…
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