Good morning.
Lets recap yesterday to relive how I made it to this post title…
Morning…. blah’s still sick, skip the gym. have a 10 a.m. meeting to attend but go home from work afterward. Fall asleep in recliner until 4:15 pm.
Afternoon: Wake up when Chance gets home off of bus. The plan is to crawl from my recliner position to my bedroom and go back to sleep, but oddly I have a burst of energy.
Late afternoon: I start making Biscotti for my co workers. I had bought the ingredients over the weekend but have not felt well enough to do anything with that. I start by making a double batch of Chocolate Dipped Orange and then a double batch of Chocolate-Chocolate. I complete both of these and then proceed to make Pickle Butts (hey – I don’t make the names for these things!) for an appetizer potluck and White Elephant Christmas party we are invited to.
6:30 pm: Arrive at White Elephant party, eat real home-made connoles made in front of us by a guy who is 100% Sicilian. Uhhh… yum.
8:30 pm: back home and crank out a double batch of Cinnamon hazelnut biscotti to finish off my gift bags for tomorrow at work. Finish cooking at 10 pm.
6 batches of biscotti – thus the post title.
As of this morning I am feeling good and am optimistic that my 4 days of being bogged down with this horrible sinus/cold/headache/achy bone thing is over.
*Happy dance.*
Book Journey 
Ha! We call those deli rolls. :p
Are you referring to the “Pickle Butts” Hannah? It was a friend who first made them for a gathering and she called them pickle butts so I stuck with it. 😀
It’s good to have a real name for them.
Yes, that’s what I was referring to. 🙂 I didn’t know they were so widespread, either! Other than the couple we got the idea from, we’re the only ones I know of who’ve served them (well, excepting people who got the idea from us …).
Sky high biscotti…I know how you feel! My daughter and I baked all weekend and there must be hundreds of cookies all over my kitchen yet…yikes!
Joanne, I am not a baker but when I do… I go overboard. I plan to make more tonight. 🙂
Would that be the daughter I met when we went to the Book Fair? Tell her hi from me and Merry Christmas to you both!
They are pickle roll-ups in my family and they have made their way to every family gathering for the last couple of decades. I finally decided I was done making them but the torch was passed on to Brian and Sarah.
And I just want to know…where were the biscotti last Christmas when I was a co-worker????? Just kidding, they look wonderful. I may just have to bake some up myself today.
Oh…..
uhhhhh…..
awkward. 😀
Lets get together for dinner as we planned and I will bring you Biscotti too 🙂
Or…. potatoes.
Fair enough. Have a wonderful Christmas sweet friend!
Glad you are feeling better and how I wish I was one your co-workers! Yum!
Thanks Kelly! 😀
(I kind of do too not that I realize that I did not bring any in for me to go with my coffee…. LOL)
Oh well, I think I sampled enough last night!
Oh thanks Sandi – I really needed your kind words today and appreciate you so much! Merry Christmas!
Ooh, when you get a burst of energy, watch out! I love biscotti, but I think my favorite one above is the Cinnamon Hazelnut with Chocolate…Yum!
Since there is no chance in H… that I’ll be baking—yeah, another story for another day—I might just make it to the gym (have to earn my reward), followed by a trip to Barnes & Noble, where they have biscotti in the Starbucks cafe.
Maybe that will get me out of the house today! I’ve been hibernating (and reading), but I can read at B & N.
Happy Holidays, and hope the burst of energy lasts.
Laurel I think I likes the cinnamon Hazelnut best too…. it smelled wonderful!
Enjoy your outing! To a book store even – I am jealous! 😀
Happy Biscotti Holidays! Wishing you a BRIGHT Chrismas Week and then some.
Thanks Care! Same to you 😀
So much biscotti and you feeling unwell – You put us to shame. Hope you are soon feeling 100% and able to fully enjoy your baking.
Thanks Terri – I am feeling better. Now I just ave that annoying left over cough. 😀
I’ll take some of the orange biscotti please….sounds really yummy.
Ryan they smelled divine! I think they would be awesome with that caramel vanilla tea you have me hooked on 😀
Yay glad you’re on the mend! Yum the biscotti looks great, I’ve never made it but I’m tempted now. Not no sure about the pickle butts LOL what’s on the outside of them?
Sheree, oddly the pickle butts are delicious and addicting! They are regular sized pickles – wiped dry with a towel and then take a quarter size amount of softened cream cheese and form it around the pickle… then you wrap it one slice of really thin deli turkey or ham. Now lay pickle on side and cut into slices.
hmm thanks Sheila, I think my dad would love them so I might give them a go. Not too fond of pickles myself 🙂
I love pickles! Let me know what your dad thinks of them Sheree 🙂
So glad that you’re feeling better and that biscotti looks yummy! What are those pickles wrapped in?
Thanks Staci – cream cheese and thin deli meat…. see details in above comment 😀
Yay for feeling better! I hope you have a fantastic Christmas!
Thanks Laura! You have a wonderful Christmas as well 🙂
Looking at the picture in the morning like this makes me want to have my secon breakfast. Seems so yummy
Aleetha I ate way too much biscotti and pickle butts in the last two days 😀
Pickle butts. Hehe. Love it!
Amused….
heh heh
Yeah. 😀
ooooooooh yum , those chocolate chocolate ones I could so get lost in lol,
glad you’re feeling better too – my son just started coughing , hoping its nothing but seems like every Xmas he gets something and on his break too at that lol poor kid.
Donna that chocolate chocolate ones are deadly…. like a really (REALLY) good brownie.
hmmm… what is a pickle butt (the outer wrapping)?
I’m glad you are feeling better. I have been so busy this week that I just posted my ‘It’s Monday’ update (HA). The next few days should be quieter on my end.
The biscotti looks delicious, have a wonderful day!
Mari – cream cheese and a thin deli eat wrap…. I have the instructions in an above comment. 😀
Are you hosting a global challenge for 2011? Someone mentioned it but I haven’t located the post with details.
Did you see this post (of mine)? http://www.bookwormwithaview.com/2010/12/books-read-2010-in-review.html
I will join if the rumor is true! 🙂
Hi Mari, no I have the WHERE Are You Reading Challenge…. link is in the top sticky post. 🙂
Off to check out your post!
So glad you are feeling better. Darn those pickle butts look good!
Goodgolly, biscotti AND cannoli! I do hope you recovered enough to taste these wonderful treats! I grew up on cannoli from Brooklyn and I will love them forever!