Happy National Pastry Day. If that doesn't tickle yer' fancy then you can celebrate weary willie day. Your choice.

 

I love pastry, especially flaky pastry, like lobster tails filled with custard, yum

 

Then today is your day my friend.

 

and phyllo pastry, puff pastry, you name it I like it.

 

How about zeppole? I like a good cannoli.

 

oh yeah. Now we have a peasant version of zeppole that are potato based and deep fried, very much the same dough as gnocchi but deep fried, and made in large sized ring shapes., they can be sweet or not sweet, made both ways. There is another version that is made from a pastry dough that is sweet with sugar. While I really like them they always give me terrible heartburn, I've had to reduce my fried food intake for a number of years. My mother makes them all the time and they are so hard to resist when they are hot from the fryer. I also like a good cannoli , Buddy Valastro (Cake Boss) brags about having the best cannoli but I know someone that ate his and said they were nothing special, lol.

 

I don't think the zeppole I had was potato based. Bialy is something that I was curious about never had the chance to try one they always mentioned them on The Soprano's

 

yeah the potato based ones are a peasant type of food from very south Italy where my parents came from. I never had bialy , but I do have burek some times , it is a meat or cheese filled pastry, pretty good.

 

I never heard of burek just looked it up looks really good. I had something that was greek that looked similar and had spinach in it along with the meat.

 

Yes the Greeks have some similar items, burek is Croatian I believe.