Mar 19
As promised, I have photos of the 2 types of St. Joseph’s pastry. Warning: Do not look at these pictures when you are hungry. It will only torture you.
The one on the left is the zeppole & the one on the right is sfingi. The pastry for both is just puff pastry. The main difference is that the zeppole has custard cream and the sfingi has cannoli cream. (I have no idea why the custard one is called “zeppole” because to me, that is not zeppole. Real zeppole is fried globs of dough covered with powdered sugar. You’ll have to wait until May to see photos of that.)Naturally, you can’t eat those without having coffee. Not that weak American kind. You want black coffee with these. Black coffee is not regular coffee without milk. It’s espresso.
I tried to make cappuccino, as you can see by my poor attempt at foamed milk. I guess Stephen is right - the only real way to foam it is to use steam. I cheated & used a little electric whip thingie.
I tried finding my recipe for puff pastry but it seems to have disappeared. I guess if anyone wants a recipe, they’ll just have to google it.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:28 am Quote
Thanks for the pictures, and yes, you’re right….pure torture.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:01 am Quote
I still need to find where I stuck that cream puff recipe. And it seems I’m becoming a photo critic. I keep looking at that picture & thinking - “The lighting is off. You should have had a light source from overhead.”
March 21st, 2007 at 9:14 am Quote
Now wait a minute! You’ve cost me part of a night’s sleep. I woke up thinking, huh?…no recipe??? She cooked the doggone things. She had to have something to go by. “I tried finding my recipe for puff pastry but it seems to have disappeared.” Excuse me?! You’re not getting off the hook that easily.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:28 pm Quote
I never said I was going to make them. I just said we were going to have them. Geez, just because I now have a reputation for making good Italian food, ya think I make everything?? (Yeah, so now that you said this, you know I’m going to have to try to make them. It’s like this challenge, now.)
By the way, Janet, we still say you’re wrong & we’re right on the zeppoli/sfingi debate. Frank is going to poll some Italians in work tomorrow if he has time. Maybe I’ll even stick a poll on my blog for people to vote except then we’d get all sorts of non-Italians trying to swing the vote.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:29 pm Quote
Hey, Gin, I found a recipe:
Zeppole di San Giuseppe
March 21st, 2007 at 9:34 pm Quote
Benedicali, il mio bambino.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:24 pm Quote
Gin, I have no idea what that first word means, although I’d guess it’s good something. Did you make that word up?
And I did put a poll up but some people are too busy recovering from surgical procedures to do important stuff like read my blog and vote.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:28 pm Quote
Nope. Blame Babblefish. It’s suppose to be “bless you.”
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 am Quote
I did not get to have a st. Josephs pastry and I see that you did. I’m jealous and offended that I was not offered one. It would have been well worth a 20 minute trip home to eat something so delicious…
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm Quote
Yeah, yeah, yeah - I’m a bad mother. Hey, who’s the mother who never took her little girl sledding? And then there was that Barbie van that you never got. You poor, deprived thing.
Oh, Gin, by the way - my grandmother always said our last name, Bonagura, meant good luck. Not that this has anything to do with anything…