On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:17:11 +0200, "Giusi" >
wrote:

> But I ate one once and it was just terrible.

To be honest, I don't remember what they tasted like - but I'm not
surprised at your reaction. I've retried things I didn't think twice
about eating as a kid and found them horribly lacking. Back in those
days, I was a Hostess SnoBalls aficionado though. As a matter of
fact, I still like almost anything that has coconut on or in it.

> I'm not trying to be superior
> here, either, because I have an inexplicible weakness for those commersial
> cream horns with the greasy fake stuff in them. My kid holds it over my
> head that I have been known to binge on six in the old days. So it's not
> that Twinkies are bad for me, it's that they are nasty.
>
> I think I could get behind pot luck of all kinds of dishes that LOOK like a
> Twinkie when done. That I could do.

Isn't that how those copy cat web sites got started? To be honest, I
don't eat commercial products and want to replicate them... same with
chain restaurant signature dishes. However, I do still want to
recreate that dish with calabrese sausage I had a year or so ago.
It's a wall photo on my FB page and here's the description. Rigatoni
Salsiccia Calabrese, which is rigatoni baked with calabrese sausage,
roasted fennel and artichoke hearts in roasted garlic cream sauce with
(a topping of) herbed bread crumbs.

Would that cream sauce be béchamel or heavy cream? Would it have
cheese in it or not?

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