But don't most of play along with the fiction that if we eat one of these bars, we can indulge ourselves later in a slice of cheese cake?
For the investment club, it meant the possibility of having a few extra dollars for some hard working finance folks and an all-expense outing at the Cheese Cake Factory.
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We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).
At Ubi Maior the group breaks for dinner, a buffet of porchetta (pork stuffed with rosemary and olive oil), pasta fagioli, slabs of salty pecorino cheese and rum cake.
For dinner, Karzai joined the first family for some all-American fare: fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, cheese and garlic biscuits and pineapple upside down cake.
The artichoke appetizer had gone awry and came second, but it was worth the wait--boiled to semi-baby-food consistency and with the season's first fava beans. (They stole the show.) I ended with a whole grilled fish and, at the urging of two guys at the next table, Paradiso's prize dessert, sponge cake with dried fruit and sweetened ricotta cheese.
The lively restaurant buys its goat's cheese from a couple in their 80s, Maria and Vincente Cordona, who produce salty, smooth roundels of cheese, as soft and plump as a freshly iced wedding cake, from their smallholding a few miles inland.
From fetching everyone's fish and chips, slathered with vinegar not ketchup, he moved up to more particular orders: a one-egg omelette for Ringo, cheese-and-cucumber sandwiches for George, and for John caviar and chocolate cake.
Peggy Paul, who is married to son Ron, contributed a recipe for Oreo Cake, which is made with Oreo cookies, instant chocolate pudding, cream cheese and Cool Whip.
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