Based in Manila, Philippines, Dessert Comes First is a chronicle of the food-obsessed food writer, Lori Baltazar. This website is all about desserts, restaurants, coffee, and the pleasures of homebaking. Read more about me Dessert Comes First After All (Your Will-Die-For-It, Favorite Dessert of All Time)
DiscOVIries by Nokia, final week
Tue, November 17th of 2009
12:19 pm
When I began my career as a food writer, I swore to myself that I would never use the term, “… to die for!”
And ten years later, I still haven’t. To my mind, it’s infinitely preferable to be alive to dream about dessert rather than to die for dessert. If it’s that good, I definitely want to be able to live to eat another day.
For the final week of the DiscOVIries by Nokia contest, I’ve decided to pull out all the stops, bet the bakery, go for broke, use up all the sugar in the pantry, and clean out the kitchen. Since I live for dessert, this final week is dedicated to it, my ultimate devotion. Recalling my sugar memories and browsing through photos of desserts past, I realize that my heart pitter-patters for pie, specifically the pili nut pie of the defunct UVA restaurant in Greenbelt.
Long-time visitors to this website will recognize the photo. It was one of the “revolving” food banners on DCF earlier this year. I love pie, partly because Manila doesn’t have enough pies, so I believe that every good pie is worth saving and shouting out to the mountains to. A few years ago when I was at UVA stuffing my mouth with pili nut pie and vainly trying to retain some modicum of decency, chef patron Fernando Aracama was relating how he wanted to make the pie 100-percent pili. “But pili is an oily nut and it just overwhelmed the pie.” Thus some of the pili was supplemented with pecans.
It results in a pie that’s a plethora of nuts barely bound together by a sticky glaze of butter, eggs, syrup, brown sugar, and pure vanilla. Encased in a short fluted crust and gilded in a pleasure pool of muscovado syrup, it was made better only when forkfuls of it were chased down with the accompanying ginger ice cream made on-site. I’m still haunted by the memory of the cold ice cream pocked with pockets of the ginger’s heat. Oh, how I miss this pie! I did so love it fondly and without restraint.
This week, show me and the world Your Will-Die-For-It, Favorite Dessert of All Time Whether it’s homemade or store-bought, it’s got to be the dessert that for you, has no compare. Photos can be taken with any digital camera or camera phone. What matters is that you open an OVI account. If you’ve already got one, then this should be easy for you.
- Create an OVI account and activate your OVI email address.
- Upload a photo into my OVI share folder. Just in case you’re prompted for a password to my folder, it’s “food”.
And please, for those who have trouble uploading or can’t find the upload button, please make sure that you’re signed in BEFORE you attempt to upload. - Create an OVI account and activate your OVI email address.
- Upload a photo into my OVI share folder. Just in case you’re prompted for a password to my folder, it’s “food”. And please, for those who have trouble uploading or can’t find the upload button, please make sure that you’re signed in BEFORE you attempt to upload.
- For every photo you enter (yup, send multiple photos if you like!), please include your name, your OVI email address ([email protected]) and a short description about your photo.
- NEW REQUIREMENT: All photo submissions should be at least 500 pixels in size.
Contest Mechanics:
1. This week’s contest is open from Nov. 16-22, 2009.
2. Get your photo(s) in for this week’s theme by Sunday, Nov. 22, at 11:59 PM.
3. The prize for this week is P2,000.00 worth of Ayala Electronic Gift Check (as good as cash!)
4. You need to be a resident of the Philippines.
There’s a grand prize to be given at the end of the 8 weeks: a brand new Nokia phone.
Kudos to OVI by Nokia for making this contest possible.
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I agree. Shouldn’t excellent desserts be desserts to live for? =) Where’s the fun when you’re dead? haha
I’m glad you’re up and about Lori.
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Comment by chip — November 18, 2009 @ 3:55 am
Hi Lori,
Barack’s Sweet Potato Pie by Myron’s Place in Greenbelt 5 is one of my happy desserts.
The story behind it is sweet too!
It’s good to share with someone special or a few girl friends.
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Comment by Geia — November 24, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
Thank you very much. The information was very nice and the service was excellent.
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Comment by Thai Food & Thai Desserts — January 10, 2010 @ 10:04 pm
Additional,
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Comment by Thai Food & Thai Dessert — January 10, 2010 @ 10:13 pm