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I had fun making these. They came out rock hard and perfect for dunking into coffee or wine. There’s no oil or butter in this recipe, so I suppose that is key to the tooth-threatening texture I happen to like. What I didn’t love was the cornmeal. The brand I bought from the bulk bin [...]
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Today’s cookie, which I’m packing up and taking to a party tonight, is a spin-off of the biscotti on my Top 10 list. That is, Gourmet Magazine’s biscotti. It’s a great recipe, but I decided to give it a Mexican theme and added espresso powder, Mexican vanilla, pecans and cinnamon. Hershey’s cinnamon chips would be [...]
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Biscotti seemed like the perfect cookie for today so I did a search and found a great recipe – Double Almond Biscotti by Pam Simmons. The intro to this recipe, which I found on Recipe Goldmine, says that Pam developed it in her test kitchen and it became the most popular biscotti in her office. [...]
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TGIUUBD! That stands for Thank God it’s “Use up Banana Day”. This special day comes around every 6 months. It starts when my daughter launches a campaign to buy bananas, which no one in the family really eats – including her. Not wanting to hinder the natural evolution of her mercurial little taste buds, I [...]
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My friend Karen Tedesco tipped me off to this recipe. It’s an old one from Gourmet Magazine and can be found on both Epicurious and in the big, yellow Gourmet Magazine Cookbook — one of my favorites, even though it has no pictures. This is a very good and reliable biscotti recipe which has enough [...]
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