Key Lime Pie Pilgrimage - Part II
6. Flamingo Crossing [Key West]
I love ice cream a lot so I had to try the ice cream at Flamingo Crossing on Duval Street one night. The Cuban coffee ice cream was intensely coffee flavored and wonderful and the key lime ice cream was refreshingly creamy and delicious.
5. Wooden Spoon [Marathon]
We read about the Wooden Spoon in the key lime pie article so we grabbed a slice to go on the drive back to Miami. It's a little yellow dive diner on the side heading away from Key West and they make an interesting pie that's the consistency of whipped cream. It's very light and fluffy and mildly key lime flavored. There was much discussion whether the graham crack crust was homemade or packaged. I vote machine made since it was so evenly pressed, but Adam argued it was homemade by a highly skilled pie maker. The verdict is out, but the filling is definitely one of a kind and tasty in its own unique way.
2 comments:
The crust could be both homemade and machine made w/o being packaged. I saw a little counter top size machine for pressing pie dough into pie pans in Julian, CA a few years ago (I think the famous Julian apple pie is a tempest in a teapot, but that's another matter). The baker put a ball of dough into the pan, the press came down, and voila! That was for pastry crust, but one could imagine it working just as well for graham cracker crust.
You learn something new everyday. Pie crust machines...genius. I remember seeing a dough rolling machine once at Dancing Deer where they cut the circle cookies out for the first time. Shattered all illusions that there was someone "scooping" out the cookies one by one.
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