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He has the best Italian cookie recipes of all the recipes I have ever researched.
http://www.nickmalgieri.com/blog/recipes.html
http://www.nickmalgieri.com/blog/recipes.html
Italian? I see a lotta other countries.....Spanish, Dutch, French, Austrian, etc. Is there pics of the cookies? I have a hard time making a baked item without pics.....don't know why.
In my town (Kenosha, WI) there's a huge Italian population and there's no function without both biscotti and genetti (shown):
I buy them at a couple different Italian bakeries in town, but MIL's friends always make them homemade for holidays, etc.
All the kids grow up on them here.
ETA: Oh and here's the product info: Anise flavored cookie.
This recipe was brough over from Cozenza, Italy by my grandmother Santalli, and is still used today at our bakery!
I heart Nick because before I had a computer w/internet access, I discovered his books at the library. I had a hard time finding a recipe for a cookie called a Cucidati, basically a fig newton, because all the recipes that my aunts had required a pinch of this and a pinch of that. I can't bake that way.
So funny, I'm hoping to make these in the next week or two! I've never done them before...I'd read on a blog or two that they were a real pain to make, so I always take a pass b/c I don't have the time. This year, I'm just going to do it. Any tips? Do you follow his recipe exactly?
And I found Nick about 15 years ago on the Food Network. That was before it blew up into the whole celebrity chef thing. He used to host Cooking Live on Fridays. You could call in and ask questions. Great show and he always had such an approachable personality. I learned so much watching that show.
Hey, are these cookies hard? Seriously.
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