March 26, 2013
By Annie Beckmann
In the last edition of The Commons, we visited with Margaret Garrett, Mary Odegaard and Kip Kniskern, the trio of chefs who cook for SU's Jesuits.
Odegaard, left, is the cook who asks all members of the campus Jesuit community what their favorite desserts are, then takes the time to make them for birthday celebrations. When a priest is too agreeable and says most any dessert would be just fine, she asks, "But what did your Mom make for your birthdays that you really liked?"
Here's a look at the list of favorites she creates for birthdays of every Jesuit.
Dave Anderson - German chocolate cake
Mike Bayard - Pumpkin cheesecake with chocolate crust
Brendan Busse - Berry pie
Emmett Carroll - Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Bob Egan - White cake with white butter cream frosting
Peter Ely - Chocolate cake with white frosting or carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
John Foster - Marsala zabaglione or creme brulee
Ron Funke - Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Lorenzo Herman - Rum bundt cake with walnuts
Pat Howell - Carrot cake with nuts and cream cheese frosting
Mike Kelliher - Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting
Pat Kelly - Vanilla ice cream pie with graham cracker crust
David Leigh - Angel food cake with chocolate frosting
Tom Murphy - White cake with peanut butter frosting
Natch Ohno - Chocolate cake with raspberry filling and chocolate frosting
Pat O'Leary - White cake with lemon frosting or lemon meringue pie
William O'Malley - Tiramisu
Trung Pham - Cheesecake
Matthew Pyrć - Cheesecake
Jim Reichmann - Lemon cake with lemon frosting
Steve Sundborg - White cake with lemon curd and white butter cream frosting
James Taiviet Tran - Angel food cake
John Topel - Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting
Pat Twohy - German chocolate cake
Josef Venker - Vanilla cake with strawberries and whipped cream, lemon meringue pie or vanilla bean ice cream with madeleine cookies
Bill Watson - Chocolate cake with raspberry filling and raspberry cream frosting
Eric Watson - Chocolate cake with raspberry filling and chocolate frosting
Jason Welle - Chocolate/peanut butter ice cream cake
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