Do you have dessert?

[Indadhanu]

I was just thinking, as I made our custard for our special Sunday dessert tonight, if others eat dessert regularly, or if it's just a 'treat'.

Do you have dessert? Is it regular or occassional? What do you have for dessert? Do you make dessert or buy it ready-made? Is it an 'official' dessert at the dinner table, or is it just a grazing type dessert when you feel like it?

It's usually a treat for us, but thats mostly because I never remember until after Sunday night dinner LOL. Tonight is fruit and custard, next week maybe caramelised mango and cream or ice-cream... Sometimes we have ice-cream after dinner if I've made some, but mostly it's just dinner. Donuts if I can be bothered... I might make a hot chocolate (the real kind, melted chocolate and milk ) occassionally during the week...

Anyway, just wondering if people still ate 'dessert' at the end of a meal?

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

We used to have it every night when I was a kid, and then when I got married I was surprised coz DH never wanted it! These days I generally have fruit icecreams or jelly made up, and we just have it as we feel like it

[Trillian]

My grandparents have dessert every night - icecream, stewed fruits and jelly - without fail. On a sunday it is usually homemade steamed chocolate pudding and cusard. When we visit I always ask if Nan can make the pudding for us.

We don't have it all the time - we might go for weeks without having it, other times we might have it several times a week. Mostly just icecream and topping or with sprinkles on it, or an icecream cone. If icecreams are on special at the supermarket I might buy a box as a special treat. If we have stewed fruit (seasonal only) we have that. Every now and then I will make a sticky date pudding - scratch one not a packet one - or a cheesecake.

[Tinks]

As a general rule, we never have it although sometimes in Winter I'll make a pudding. Growing up we rarely had dessert but DH's family did every night, his parents and grandparents still do. DH thought it was weird when we moved in together that I didn't make dessert.

[~Hestia~]

We seem to go through a run of it - usually during summer when it's icecreams or frozen yogurt after tea. Then nothing for ages til at some point in winter when I start making self saucing chocolate pudding all the time as a treat for DH!!

[Kazbah]

We have icecream or custard and tinned fruit pretty much every night. Or fresh fruit in season - mmm, mango, strawberries! Fresh strawberries & cream!

I'll make jelly for DS or on cool nights apple pie or hot danish / fruit strudle.

Mmm, might make some jelly for tonight!

[sloane]

we do sometimes...we might have ice creams or sometimes i'll make something like crepes, donuts or a pudding in winter.

growing up we had dessert most nights - i think my parents still do although my dad only has 'lite' ice cream now.

[AnyDream]

Not as a rule although the kids often have custard/yoghurt/icecream with fruit or just fruit, esp the toddler (because it's a good way to send her to bed with a full tummy if she has mucked about with dinner).

Saturday night is our big night for a proper dessert - we pretty much have something desserty every week esp in winter when we all love to have crumbles, hot puddings etc. In summer it's often fruit based like fruit salad (fresh) or brulee'd mango or some kind of fruit in a meringue case. In Summer I am partial to an iceblock or icecream a couple of times a week.

DH's parents eat dessert *every single night*. I think it's because they eat dinner so early (like 5 or 5.30) so by 8 oclock they are hungry again and out comes the dessert.

[STARRYSKY]

Growing up we only had dessert on special occasions, big family dinners, birthdays, easter, xmas, and the like.
Usually things like roly poly, pears in jelly, or very occasionally in summer mum would buy two fruits ina can and we'd have that, with ice cream and cream.
DP's not into dessert, I really only ever make it if we have people over for dinner.
my mum and aunties are always banging on about who is bringing "sweets" to a gathering..

[Daydream Believer]

We dont sit down & have dessert together, if someone wants something they go & have it. DD has fruit, yoghurt or a sandwich after dinner if she's still hungry before bed. It's only really if we have people over that we have a sitdown (planned) dessert IYKWIM

[Rach75]

not very often but that being said the last month or so I have bribed DS #1 with jelly if he eats all his main meal so we have been having lots of jelly sometimes with custard

probably once every few monhs we will have a cheesecake or something, Jase goes thru a stage every 5 weeks when is on call and not having a evening drink where he will eat icecream every night

[Phteven]

We don't have desert often and when we do it tends to be something simple, crumble is about as complex as dessert gets in our home.

[indie24]

We only have dessert as a treat. Usually its a self saucing pudding or golden syrup dumplings. When MIL visits we have it every night and its nice. Usually old school desserts

[Cherished]

Oh how wonderful to read about grandparents having dessert every night if only my hips would allow it! We never plan to have dessert and we really only ever have it once in a blue moon (maybe if we have guests over). I have ice cream in the freezor at the moment but that probably only happens once a year. If we had dessert when guest are over I try to keep it light eg choc mouse with fresh whipped cream and some cherry ripe or pepermint crips crushed up on top of it. When I was a kid mum would make pudding or golden syrup dumplings, paves etc YUMMMMM Ahhh those were the days

[STARRYSKY]

DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL.....golden syrup dumplings!! I havent had those for years!

[Cherished]

Yeah I started drooling when I was typing I think next time mum visits I will have to get her to make them! hehehe

[mrsmac]

DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL.....golden syrup dumplings!! I havent had those for years!

MMmmmmm me neither, I love them!! I used to make them years ago I must find my recipe for this winter.

We always had dessert as kids but we very rarely do now. If we have visitors or its a celebration I'll make something, I made a pav a few weeks ago and it went VERY quickly LOL

[sangie]

DH has a sweet tooth so I try to make a dessert every weekend. That is what I had growing up too unless there was a birthday on a weekday as we'd have birthday cake then too!

In Summer we might have fruit salad, ice cream, cheesecake, trifle, tiramisu. In winter we love apple crumble, choc pudding, hot choccie with marshmallows. I have been trying to be a bit more adventurous lately though and I did make a yummy vanilla pannacotta with berries.