I bought 2 cannolis last week for $6.42. Ouch! Yesterday I noticed the new Lowe's Foods makes them. I bought 2 for $3.58. They were just as good as the ones I bought last week.
The are my all time favorite treat. The deli back home used to sell them.... yummm.... I have had some from the bakery at 40/42, they were ok.
The cheater answer is; Cannoli are Sicilian pastry desserts. The singular is cannolo, meaning “little tube”, with the etymology stemming from the Latin "canna", or reed. Cannoli originated in Sicily and are an essential part of Sicilian cuisine. They are also popular in Italian American cuisine. Cannoli consist of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling usually containing ricotta cheese (or alternatively, but less traditionally, sweetened Mascarpone) blended with some combination of vanilla, chocolate, pistachio, Marsala wine, rosewater or other flavorings. Some chefs add chopped succade or chocolate chips. They range in size from "cannulicchi", no bigger than a finger, to the fist-sized proportions typically found in Piana degli Albanesi, south of Palermo, Sicily. I like the small ones, and I love them with chocolate chips! Go try one, you wont regret it!!! (with a maiden name of Rerisi, I ate a lot of these growing up!)
They are something you couldn't eat on a daily basis. As Hught said they are probably artery cloggers.
You would think that someone with the "last name" of MAFIA would know what a cannolo (singular ) is!!!!
Don't feel bad... I ain't ever had one either. I'd probably equate it to a Long John. But, hey... I do know how to GOOGLE! :mrgreen: <ducking and running>
The best cannoli isn't filled until you buy it - The ones that are filled and sit for hours/days are all soggy and yucky-poo! Of course, in many bakeries up North, so many are sold quickly, that they can fill them and sell them before they mush up.
I haven't had the ones at Lowes. Most of their bakery stuff scares me with the over filled cool whip cakes. The cannolis at Venero's aren't too bad, but the best cannolis are from Mike's Pastry in Boston. They ship and reasonably priced. 10 for 25 bucks! http://www.mikespastry.com/
Are we talking about the Lowe's at 50 and 42? And I don't think they are too bad for your arteries. All they are is ricotta cheese, vanilla extract, powdered sugar, and chocolate chips.
I just love messing with you. According to this chart... http://www.fatfreekitchen.com/cholesterol/cholesterol-cheese.html Ricotta has just about the most cholesterol you can get in a cheese - besides a "cheese sauce" whatever that is.
Well it just depends on how much you eat. I don't see lasagna as unhealthy. But it tends to have riccotta cheese in it. Anything is going to be unhealthy if you eat it alot. But as for a cannoli. I don't think you have to worry too much. Not unless you eat them like potato chips.
That's how I would eat them. Anything worth doing, is worth doing well. You don't want them to get soggy, better eat those buggars fast!
OK, the best cannoli's were the ones my grandmother used to make. She was from Sicily...her husband, my grandfather, was from Palermo. We used to make them in her kitchen when I was a kid. I remember my uncle cut up the dowel we used to wrap the shell on and then fry them. Sweetened ricotta filled the shells with honey dripped over them...that was good eats!
