His "fresh" diet was mostly starchy cassava and sweet potatoes cooked in pork fat.
Raccoons - Fresh or canned fish, honey or sugar covered vegetables, watermelon, sweet corn, cooked fatty meat, crisp bacon, Marshmallows.
Those we tried were bliss: the rasmali (sweet cheese cooked in syrup, with nuts and cardamom cream); the halwa (almond paste) with ice cream; the Indian flan.
Croustillant de langoustines literally lived up to its name: three nem-like rolls (like Vietnamese egg rolls) of crackly phyllo pastry encased sweet, perfectly cooked langoustines.
The spicy shrimp soup would take the chill off an early winter day, with its juxtaposition of hot and sour against sweet shrimp, cooked just to peak tenderness.
She calls relatives in India and Nepal, she said, to be reminded how to cook the once-a-year Losar dishes like khapse and dresil, sweet rice cooked with sugar, nuts, raisins and butter.
The U.S.D.A. says that a 100-gram serving of sweet potato cooked with its skin contains 2 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber, and 20 milligrams of vitamin C.
As for the prix fixe entrees, we loved the radiant freshness of the house-made pea tortellini — four or five pasta pillows filled with sweet peas, cooked in brown butter with a tang of honey, on a plate decorated with fresh pea shoots and tendrils.
