Lola at the Coffee House

They're normally filled with cream, but you can fill them with almost anything, the snap itself is a brittle ginger flavoured biscuit.

This is a link to a recipe. Remember UK measurements so you'll need to convert them to US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/brandy_snaps_47363

An olden stottie recipe -

http://neil-pearson03.blogspot.com/

The bbc site has a recipe of the lighter stottie type. (you have to register)

I've not had cannolis, I didn't even know they existed until they featured in an episode of The Sopranos I saw last year.

I know, I should have seen the series long, long ago.

I have seen them all now.

vonny, I've gotten you a birthday gift I think you've been longing for--A PUPPY.

He's still a little too young to leave his mom and his litter, but you can play with him, and help take care of him, in the meantime.

The puppy of your choice is waiting for you here...

http://www.foopets.com/adoption

That's why it's great to have Italian friends, if you aren't lucky enough to be in an Italian family.

When I was a kid, one of my girlfriends was Italian. Her mom invited me to stay for dinner one night, and she had made lasagna. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. In those days, pizza places weren't even all that ubiquitous, and I had never been to an Italian restaurant, so I didn't know lasagna even existed. I was such an enthusiastic dinner guest, I soon got invited back, and this time her mom made eggplant parmigiana. Don't ask. I was ready to move in with them. When I was older, the cannoli were a treat an Italian boyfriend showed up with one night. The romance didn't work out, but he will forever have a special place in my heart, thanks to those cannoli.

I found the recipe for the brandy snaps in the photo - truly an extravaganza I won't try making -
back in a minute.

http://ourkitchen.fisherpaykel.com/recipe/white-chocolate-mousse-and-brandy-snap-baskets/

While everyone's checking out the cannolis I'll grab some of the unfilled brandy snaps. Much like cannolis, I prefer brandy snaps empty and crispy.

We need a little music to liven this party up.

I wonder, who had had Bossche bols - quite ... ehem ... nutritious. And better eat it with with fork and knife (if you're not a native Dutch, that is)



Takes some time to get them during rush hours (but we even got a table inside with English friends

Definitely not me. I don't understand desserts with cream/s.

<shudder>

I had to look those up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bossche_bol

Ummmm.....How many did you bring with you, Walter? I've got my knife and fork ready.

Uh, oh, ooooh, a recipe. That one looks doable:

http://www.holland.com/us/tourism/article/bossche-bollen-1.htm

You've made my day ff! I've been playing with a black Labrador X puppy for ages! Best gift in the world - wonder if husband will take the hint ... puppy please, darling!!!

Glad you're enjoying the puppy, vonny, I thought you would. And that one can't chew up your shoes and furniture.

Can't stop playing with the puppy - crazy!!! I've sent the link to all of my friends too - be a busy little group of people feeding puppies and playing 'fetch' this evening!

Lovely cakes and birthday songs - thank you so much!

Happy Birthday Vonny. Sorry I can't bring food and entertainment, we're having gargantuan tornadoes here today. I'm ok, so far. Tomorrow is supposed to be worse for us.

I'm pretty sure that was a well-known scene from 'The Godfather', definitely not 'The Sopranos'. It was said by Peter Clemenza, whose wife asks him to bring home a few cannoli.

OOhhhh Lola, that must be awefully frightening.. Stay safe... Whereabouts are you? Not literally, maybe you can't answer either until they pass...

Yep. One of my favorite movies.

Sopranos, I haven't seen.