Maybe, maybe not so much. I currently live in Driscoll’s country, and I don’t buy their berries in or out of season. I also didn’t do so when I lived on the other side of the country and they had traveled 3K miles (I just got used to only having strawberries for 6-8 weeks, when the local ones were available). Shipped strawberries have little flavor and not-great texture, IMO (YMMV, of course).
Oh, wow. That is beautiful!
FM strawberries were a pleasant surprise. Tart has whipped , sweetened ricotta, pate sucrée crust and excellent strawberries.
Raspberry Dessert:
Crème pat, amaretti cookies dipped in Liqueur Créole Clément, layer of raspberries. Dusted with raspberry confectionery sugar.
Lovely!
Landed in montreal without a plan for dinner. Found myself in Chinatown, so I had a great bowl of pho and then wandered into an immense bakery. They give you a tray and your own pair of tongs, and you serve yourself.
I settled on a mango white sugar mochi and a pineapple sable. The first was good; the second was not
What a coincidence … you found a bakery!
Nice!
I was given a bottle of lemon sugar and one of chocolate sugar in a restaurant in Montreal. That was the first time I came across a flavored sugar.
I just grind up a lot of freeze dried raspberries with confectionery sugar. Also strawberries, but they have a higher moisture content and tend to clump a bit over time.
Raspberry, cocoa, sugar work well.
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Yah, didn’t think so.
Underwhelming Sicilian pistachio gelato on a hot city afternoon:
Cookies and pastry assortment for afternoon coffees. I stayed strong and resisted getting a lobster tail as well
Butter pecan biscotti. Just alright.
Such a shame to waste calories on sub par treats.
Right? We finished the scoop anyway (of course we did), but… there weren’t even any pistachios in it, and it only vaguely tasted of them. I admit we’re spoiled from having just been in Palermo, where we practically OD’d on pistachio gelati — several varieties even, and my PIC makes a mean pistachio ice cream himself.
Oh, well. Lesson learned. Even institutions can slip, I suppose.
Where did you buy these?
When I’m in supermarkets etc I’m not tempted by the desserts. I tell myself “it’s not warm” “it’s not homemade”
If you follow the link you will see that these were purchased at a very famous pastry shop near the Italian market, so we decided to try a few things. I’m not much of a dessert person in the first place, but my dood is
It’s certainly not the end of the world, and we’ve yet to try the other goodies. Domani!
Shoulda gotten the lobster tail.