Mmmmmmmm mochi
@Massmomm besides mochi I’ve never heard of any of your items!
I really enjoy a great beer! Goes with the pizza!
Having great food prepared perfectly where someone else cooks and someone else cleans—heaven!
If someone else pays the bills as well, even better!
Last month I had this mochi combination at a Bon Odori in Tacoma. Mochi, topped with sweet bean paste, topped with a strawberry. The bean paste has a chocolately taste and went perfectly with the strawberry.
Note to self - plan a trip to Tacoma. 
Taiwanese shaved snow - tough to find the in US outside of the West coast though, and hard to find a really high quality version.
For those that haven’t heard of it:
https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/shaved-snow
I had some of the worse Japanese food in my life in Tacoma. Glad something is good there.
Amazing thread. I enjoy gluttony in many forms, on rare occasion. Distant and unobtainable is what I dream about. Perfect Hong Kong dim sum. Pastries in France. Cheese filled breads in Georgia.
Here in the Midwest, Culvers frozen custard on a hot day is about the best thing accessible. Well, there are some restaurants with fried cheese curds to die for as well.
I’m probably in the minority here, but my cravings are definitely savory:
Potato chips - not all that picky and very open minded, but Cape Cod is pretty great, along with Lays with ridges (the non ridge chips are way too thin).
French fries - must be crispy bordering on over done. Rosemary, cheese, truffle? Bring it on.
Baked potato - butter, chives, salt and pepper.
Fried calamari - spicy with fried and battered peppers - Rhode Island style
Hummus of any type scooped up with pita or good crackers.
Well, @Gourmetmom - I am with you on the savory! I can ignore the dessert menu, but a bread basket served with some good olive tapenade or hummus will get me excited.
Just had my dinner of a bag of Costco Madame edamame and a cut up red bell pepper with guacamole. Speaking of guacamole and potatoes, I always crave those two things.
@BunsenBurner I’m with you and @Gourmetmom. Speaking of avocado, I love avocado toast on good bread sprinkled with some good salt or everything but the bagel seasoning.
@mom60, that is my breakfast 3-4x a week but I also add a scrambled egg on top. The TJ “everything but the bagel” seasoning is a must!
I’m also definitely in the savory category as well when it comes to food cravings/weaknesses.
@abasket
Sweetened chestnut paste is pureed candied chestnuts, sweetened and flavored with vanilla. It comes in a can and you serve it with plain yogurt or, in France, a plain soft cheese called fromage frais. It is so delicious it defies description.
Torrone is soft Italian nougat. Home Goods/TJMaxx sells it for a steep discount, which is unfortunate.
Rum babas are sweet yeast cakes baked in cylindrical molds, and, best of all, doused in rum syrup.
Berry genoise is a sponge cake moistened with simple syrup and filled with whipped cream and berries.
Victoria sponge is similar, though filled with strawberry jam and cream.
Coconut mochi is just mochi made with coconut milk, eggs and butter.
All of these things are fattening!
Is hummus a “sinful” food? Or guacamole?
Guacamole has a ton of calories, both have a ton of salt, and neither is usually eaten alone… sounds sinful to me!
I don’t think of guacamole/avocado or hummus as sinful food. What makes it sinful treat to me is eating it on good bread or with freshly fried tortilla chips. In the case of hummus my favorite is from middle eastern places with fresh pita bread. Eaten with fresh vegetables it’s not sinful in my book.
I love carbs and crave them when I eat them. My waistline and my joints don’t appreciate when I eat a lot of them. In my dream world I’d live on toast and good bagels with good salted butter.
I have a different take on the title of this thread. The first time I heard the term “sinful food” I was maybe 5 or 6 years old.
Our neighbors had an antique vineyard that the owners had installed as they used to make grape jelly. We used to play in the vines as a way to beat the indian summer heat. But the old man had been widowed and was barely able to get around - he never tended the vineyard or his orchard.
I was raised to “never eat between meals” and of course, never take something that didn’t belong to me. Stealing is a sin, after all.
But those concord grapes were so ripe, and tempting, and they proved to be so sweet, right off the vine. My older sister and I, and our other neighbor across the street, probably ate two pounds of them each.
It was later that afternoon that I heard my aunt talking with my mom about “sinful foods” they were thinking about making for the church potluck picnic - they were both delighted to have picked a dessert. The guilt of “stealing” overwhelmed me and I started bawling.
My mom didn’t understand, so I confessed, She explained that the neighbor (well, his grown, married daughters who didn’t live there) had told her to please help ourselves to anything in their orchard or the vines. She told me that what we should do would be to go pick a big pot full of the grapes, and make some jelly with them. Then we’d bring some of it over to our neighbor.
It was a lot of work, but I have never had grape jelly taste anywhere near as good as that. It will forever be on top of my “sinful food” list.
A good chocolate malt or potato chips and French onion dip.
I eat a lot of junk food but do not care for candy corn or Doritos.
Avocados have healthy fats…
I don’t put salt in my guacamole and it still tastes great. But yeah, if you eat it with chips, you’re getting into trouble area if you are carb intolerant, pre-diabetic or diabetic.
D1 eats hummus, but dips carrots, celery, and cucumber slices in it rather than crackers o pita bread. I like it okay, but rarely have it.
Dunno—I like plain, unseasoned avocados and believe they’re probably healthiest that way anyway. We have mini ones on our tree — guilt free and yummy!