Joining You from South America

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Silly kitty cats, I am sure they will adjust! It won't hurt them a bit, I worked a few yrs at a veterinarian hosp. and often times after surgery we filled the litter boxes with shredded paper to keep the kitties from getting litter into their incision areas (esp. if they had just been declawed) so I know for a fact they will adjust to the new kitty box litter Cats can be so spoiled!

Too bad the oil that Venuzuela has been blessed with has turned out to be crude oil (Ha-Ha) you could have used the other type to at least cook with!

I won't make any political judgements, but I sure hope something drastic happens to make Ven. turn around and get better for one and all!!!

[Lynda Lee]

Good to know about the kitty litter—you ARE a fount of useful information!

If we could eat oil, we'd be in good shape. The only cheap thing here is gasoline (6 cents a liter). We'd all be rich! I pray that things will turn around.

I just took the cookies-turned-biscotti out of the oven. They look like the real thing. After I pay the electricity bill I will test them with a cup of coffee. Stay tuned.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Were you able to find some almond extract for the dough? I wonder....can you get chocolate bars? Or cho. chips? You could melt some choc. in a small vessel and drip choc. onto your cooled biscotti (If it turns out good enough to put choc. on that is) and they will be authentic looking enough!

Too bad I couldn't trade you sugar, eggs and butter for gasoline! Our gasoline is slowly inching it's way higher and higher and the price of milk and everything else has finally started coming down since the last high gasoline prices pushed our food costs over the brink of normal I rejoiced to see milk return to a normal $2.00 per gallon it had gone to $4.00 per gallon! Never having been one to drink much (I always saved it for the children) I now indulge again and hope I will be able to continue to do so. I get my calcium from a tablet form called Caltrate! When milk went so high I made a decision to start drinking and enjoying it more if it ever came back down! So wa-la I now indulge as often as I can, although it has got to be 2% so I don't turn too awful rotund hee-hee!!!

[Lynda Lee]

It worked! They turned out just like biscotti. I thought about putting in almond extract but the dough was very solid and I wasn't sure I could get it distributed well enough. The original recipe has vanilla in it anyway, but if I use this one again, I put almonds in it plus the extract (I have a bottle I brought back with me from Canada). What I like best is not having to use shortening, or margarine, or butter—just yogurt—at least that part is healthier (we won't talk about the sugar, though the recipe calls from brown sugar which is a little better.)

Yes, we have good baking chocolate here and since this recipe is quite "plain" in taste I might zip it up a bit by dipping in in chocolate. Chocolate chips too!

Me too—1% milk I think ours is, but it seems to have a little more "body" than that sort of watery blue stuff we can buy at home. Everything now settles comfortably around the middle of my body (maybe I should forget the chocolate on the biscotti—or maybe not!).

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Everything now settles comfortably around the middle of my body (maybe I should forget the chocolate on the biscotti—or maybe not!).

No kiddin! You have that "full-figured girl thing" starting too=oh my!!! BUT>>> Don't fret go ahead and dip 'em in chocolate at least we will be keeping good company with the likes of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe

[Lynda Lee]

Great minds think alike!

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Hi Lynda- and welcome to EPI!

I hope you'll enjoy us here- we're a fine bunch of folks who always enjoy meeting others and making new friends... smiles- kevin (chubbyalaskagriz)

[Lynda Lee]

Thank you. Great to be here.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Hi Lynda- and welcome to EPI!

I hope you'll enjoy us here- we're a fine bunch of folks who always enjoy meeting others and making new friends... smiles- kevin (chubbyalaskagriz)

Hey Kevin you are so funny>>>this aint' EPI it's SP!!! You gettin' enuf sleep lately

Ya' know I love ya!!! Cath