tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191139875305354818.post6666124855523526150..comments2023-04-30T11:18:59.135-04:00Comments on Letting Our Light Shine: Derailed by biscottiMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705406667714209252noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191139875305354818.post-53464419466532944622011-07-11T17:09:10.272-04:002011-07-11T17:09:10.272-04:00I am just now seeing this post. Did this occur bef...I am just now seeing this post. Did this occur before or after Owen got sick? Sounds like Thursday was a slightly frustrating day! <br /><br />If it makes you feel better, the first birthday cake I made for Owen crumbled and I had to re-do it the morning of the party ;)Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13194177789083945149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191139875305354818.post-5043300476375822922011-07-11T08:55:19.810-04:002011-07-11T08:55:19.810-04:00Oh my goodness, this story is SO my life! I was l...Oh my goodness, this story is SO my life! I was laughing with you in frustration and the lost time and ingredients! Just a few months ago I had a bad kitchen flop (resulting in the ruining of my new bread baking stone that I had to throw away!) and I literally stood in the kitchen sobbing saying "now I wasted all those ingredients and I don't even have a dessert to serve my guests! My life is RUINED!" and then I ran upstairs, throwing myself on my bed in the most dramatic way a 30 something stay at home mom possibly could! Eventually Rick came in, calmed me down and I made cupcakes from a box I had in the pantry! LOL! At least these things make good blog posts!<br /><br /> I was totally laughing about the dough hook, which I will happily show you how to use some day! (I did think to myself before reading that "why is she kneading this by hand and not putting it in a mixer!") Oh my, I have had too many kitchen flops to list or even count... What I have discovered the only real way we find the "keepers" is by weeding out the "flops"! I did recently read a party throwing tip in the newspaper (from that dude your hubby dressed up as for halloween, guy something or other) last week I thought was good: don't try all new recipes, stick with things that are tried and true and maybe incorporate one new thing into the party menu. That way if the new thing "flops" your guests still have good food to eat! <br /><br />I hope the rest of the party was uneventful and went as planned!!!Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08689068800012023329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191139875305354818.post-16853411293124530132011-07-08T22:43:13.365-04:002011-07-08T22:43:13.365-04:00(This is Amanda, btw. Since I don't have a blo...(This is Amanda, btw. Since I don't have a blog, it won't let me comment as anything but Anonymous. I feel so mysterious!!)<br /><br />Are you sure that you read the recipe correctly? I've made biscotti before, and I've never had the dough be that runny, even at the beginning of the mixing process. Jackie is right, sounds like it needs more flour (or less egg). Also, the bread hook mixes and kneads bread dough so that you don't have to. Before I got my bread maker, I tried using it. It didn't....go well. Like at all. I accidentally left it on too long and ended up with the hardest bread dough ever that refused to rise and was super duper dense. So...yeah...if I need to make yeasty baked goods that I can't do with a bread maker, I just knead it by hand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191139875305354818.post-19972084316204301162011-07-08T09:45:39.380-04:002011-07-08T09:45:39.380-04:00ah shoot!! what a frustrating situation - i would ...ah shoot!! what a frustrating situation - i would have screamed :) i am sure all of your other cookies will be scrumptious - can't wait to eat them all up!! and like jackie, i am NOT a baker and seem to screw up anything i try to make from scratch. i don't really have any ideas or suggestions for what happened here. i like the boxed mixes - i stick to those. so i applaud you for even trying!!!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09620502895941905724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191139875305354818.post-63976393908373407902011-07-08T07:20:27.868-04:002011-07-08T07:20:27.868-04:00Boooo. That stinks! And I totally know what you m...Boooo. That stinks! And I totally know what you mean about lost precious time during naps. What a bummer they didn't turn out. :( Maybe they needed more flour during the kneading process? Who knows. Either way, UGH! I also don't know what that bread kneader attachment is for necessarily, but I THINK if you start with all the ingredients needed for bread, and use that to mix them, it will form a dough for you and even kind of form it into a ball. But again, I have no idea. I am not a baker by any means! haha.Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08837196718329052731noreply@blogger.com