End of the month round-up, part one…pastries, bread, and cookies
The canolli came from Fraboni’s and it was a mid-afternoon snack that follwed a Fraboni’s crazy-tasty sandwich called The Otto…I swear that sandwich is so good it defies logic…of course it’s filled with porky products. The canolli, consumed with a double espresso was heavenly…sweet, creamy, crunchy…mmmm!
Snickerdoodles have to be my all-time favorite cookie in the category of cookie that contains no chocolate. They somehow manage to have a tangy flavor that accents their sweet, cinnamon goodness, and their texture is so toothsome…I get addicted to the texture when I eat them and I can barely stop myself.
Madison Sourdough Company makes a reliable and flavorful baquette…if they would just make one with seeds like a Semifreddi’s seed baquette (fennel, sesame, and poppyseeds) I’d be blissed out.
I’m a sucker for lemon curd and poppyseeds. Scott’s Pastry Shoppe here in Middleton had the audacity to combine the two and cradle it in a buttery, almost brioche like pastry…I confess this pastry left me speechless. The frosting on top was more than gilding the lily…it was slitting the wrists. Woohoo good.
A cherry scone is good…not as good as a strawberry scone but it’ll do. I made these using jarred morello cherries from TJ’s and they were pretty good. Just take any one of the many strawberry scone recipes I’ve posted and substitute cherries.
We’ll move on to savory food next.
5 Responses to “End of the month round-up, part one…pastries, bread, and cookies”
1 Vicki 29 January 2008 @ 11:48 pm
Having grown up in Chicago and then moved to San Diego, I never thought I’d say this, but I want to move to Wisconsin. It looks like the food-pros outweigh the weather-cons!
2 vanessa 30 January 2008 @ 7:45 am
Vicki…it’s an official cold day here…windchill is -28 and kids have no school…it’s brutal. But it is sunny today. Come on over…the espresso machine is warmed up and we can bake something delicious.
3 Paula 30 January 2008 @ 9:32 am
I grew up in Madison and now live in Texas, and I have to say Fraboni’s canolli is one of the things I miss most about home. I knew there was something I forgot to do over Christmas!
4 JEP 30 January 2008 @ 6:36 pm
Your photos & descriptions are truly mouth-watering! I could follow you around to taste the best eats–ha! btw–I hear ya weather-wise—IN was close to the same wind chill temp this a.m. & am so glad the snow decided to bypass us:)
5 Crys 31 January 2008 @ 9:46 am
everything looks *so* good.
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