this particular recipe started a lengthy internal debate: hmmmm...this would be something a bit different to try. I don't LIKE biscotti! - (insert whining tone) how do you know you don't like it? you've only ever tasted the anise type and you don't like anise....lots of people like biscotti....and think of all the other good recipes you've used from KAF. well, yeah, but PJ like some things I don't like, like coconut....she seems to like everything...I bet she even eats lima beans! so don't put coconut or lima beans in your biscotti...use flavors you like...isn't that the whole idea of baking? making the things YOU like? but I don't have any pistachios! and you've never substituted a different kind of nuts in any recipe? there are plenty of almonds, and cherry-almond is a wonderful combo....and if you don't like them, give them to the boys....they'd eat sawdust if you added enough cherries and almonds to it. well.......... so I baked the biscotti with cherries - unsweetened dark, didn't have the sour -and almond extract and almonds....and oh my, are they ever GOOD!...can't wait to try this again with chocolate chips and nuts, or maybe almonds again, but with dried peaches this time? or lemon and blueberries? and best of all?...hubby doesn't really like the cherry kind...he's holding out for the chocolate nut type, so these are mine, all mine...if I can keep them hidden from the grandsons, that is. thanks PJ....you've made a convert here to the biscotti bunch. HOORAY! That was my goal, to get more people baking biscotti. Thank you SO much for sharing your internal dialogue; I'm smiling. And BTW - I LOVE lima beans, esp. in succotash, but only the baby limas - not the big ol' Fordhooks. A gal's gotta draw the line somewhere! :) PJH

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