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Written by foodie pam   
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
You read the menu, eye your choice, and imagine what it will taste like.  But they best laid plans can go awry.  A recent Grey's Anatomy ended, to paraphrase, by saying it is the unexpected that creates the best pleasures of life.   This is also true with food as Husband and I recently discovered.

We were dinning at Paragon, San Jose and examining the dessert menu when both of us eyed the "chip-wich" described as:

"Vanilla ice cream sandwiched between chocolate chip cookies served with chocolate sauce."

Immediately, we both knew that was what we would be getting. How could we get anything else?  Years ago, when we lived in Buffalo, NY we would go to a pizza place that had a dessert called the "Ice Screamer".  Great name - even better dessert. The 'Screamer consisted of two chocolate and peanut chip cookies with ice cream in the middle and hot fudge over them.  It was simply amazing.  The cookies were about 5" in diameter, 1/2" in thick and warm.  The ice cream was either chocolate or vanilla depending on our mood and the fudge thick, rich, and loaded with calories.  We've gone back in recent years but they just aren't the same anymore...

Here in front of our eyes was a San Jose take on our old-time favorite.  We had a plan and we plunged in.  But something unexpected happened when the dessert arrived.  It was absolutely nothing like what we expected!

The "chip-wich" is actually a play on the old-fashioned ice cream sandwich.  The dessert consists of two individual sandwiches cut-out from a sheet of chocolate chip cookie crust with a middle layer of ice cream.  They were really cute and looked just like ice cream sandwiches but made with chocolate chip cookies instead of the traditional dark chocolate crust.  The chocolate sauce was in a little dipping bowl.  They were not what we expected, they were not what we planned but we really enjoyed them. 

We may not have a new tradition but we have learned to crave the unexpected...

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