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thing1

  • aka Joth
    • TandemThings
PBP - The best dessert of 2011...
« on: 11 August, 2011, 11:57:55 am »
http://www.gq.com/food-travel/alan-richman/201101/best-desserts-2011-alan-richman
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1. Paris-Brest
Perhaps the tastiest of all great French pastries, created a hundred years ago to honor a bicycle race.

Looking forward to getting a few of those in.

Re: PBP - The best dessert of 2011...
« Reply #1 on: 11 August, 2011, 12:07:53 pm »
The Delice de pommes au calvados we had at the Semaine Federale final meal will take some beating.

Andrew

Re: PBP - The best dessert of 2011...
« Reply #2 on: 11 August, 2011, 12:51:17 pm »
The Paris-Brest is also about the most sickly sweet pastry going I've ever tasted, rammed full of sugars.... lordy I like them!  ;D

Assasin

  • It can only get better
Re: PBP - The best dessert of 2011...
« Reply #3 on: 11 August, 2011, 03:02:59 pm »
A good incentive to finish.
After all you need to earn it!
Just gear down things & give those joints a chance.

CramCycle

  • Mille Failte
    • The Bicycling Biochemist
Re: PBP - The best dessert of 2011...
« Reply #4 on: 11 August, 2011, 11:24:39 pm »
The Paris-Brest is also about the most sickly sweet pastry going I've ever tasted, rammed full of sugars.... lordy I like them!  ;D

Apparently it is solely responsible for the onset of type 2 diabetes in Europe, personally, i can't wait.

Re: PBP - The best dessert of 2011...
« Reply #5 on: 12 August, 2011, 04:07:47 am »
The Delice de pommes au calvados we had at the Semaine Federale final meal will take some beating.

Oh is that what I was eating? For some reason the guy serving my table gave me a load of extra calvados. It was very strong!