Twice now over the years I've made my biscuits and left out the salt! Once when company was staying over. The biscuits look the same and everybody sits down at the table happily buttering and putting on honey etc then Yuck! .... they are totally inedible!
I've made them hundreds of times over the years and only messed up twice, but no one will ever forget the awful taste and a common question before taking a bite of biscuit is: Did you remember the salt?

I can't see how biscuits would be inedible without the salt....I would (and have!!) just put on more butter!!
Actually, now that they are sliced and in for their second bake the biscotti are not too bad....just skinny!

Maybe you can rename them: Biscotti Thins. And don't forget that they are supposed to be that way!!

No.... extra butter doesn't work. In desperation we even tried sprinkling salt on the cut biscuits under the butter, but the garbage can was the only place for them. Like eating warm cardboard. Trust me, you don't want to do this!!

I'm not going to say a word...just donate them....maybe they won't know they are supposed to be biscotti...
And I won't even own up to having been the one who made them....
Just an anomoyous donation! LOL!

"Just an anomoyous donation!" ROFL! I love your wit and style Linda.

My last screw up was over cooking that eye of round roast last weekend. THen there was the time I was making pizza dough. I thought I had added a little olive oil to the bread machine.....went to check it to see if it needed a touch more flour and it smelled like dish washing soap. I keep my soap in the same kind of jar with a pouring spout that I keep my oil in...grab the wrong one this time. LOL!

David

When I was a child (I think about 6 years old) I grandly announced to my mother that I was going to make dessert one night.

I had a great idea. We had 3 things I loved, peanut butter, milk, and strawberries. I decided to make strawberry peanut butter soup.

So, I cut up strawberries and put them into bowls, filled the bowls with milk, and put a generous spoonful of peanut butter in each one and stirred it up.

Of course, what we ended up with was strawberries in milk, with a glob of peanut butter on the bottom. But we ate it anyway.

I learned very early that in cooking, sometimes things just don't work.

I've made a few strange recipes, leaving out an important ingredient trying to multi-task on too many tasks. Now, I put a check mark next to each ingredient as I prepare a recipe. Some have a lot of check marks on them!

That's what mise en place is for, so you have everything measured out and don't forget anything!

Well, the party is over....the biscotti were a lot better than the store bought mini pumpkin pies with the faux butter cream topping and the "not quite" mini pecan pies.
She's a dear friend and the party was very nice, mostly by virtue of the compatable friends and the lovely house and the gracious hostess.
But she has a couple of trays of things like cut up apples and a bad dip from Wal mart on Rose point crystal and a couple of other trays of little pieces of meat and cheeses stuck with toothpicks, all from Wal-Mart....all presented very graciously and beautifully arranged on lovely plates in a beautiful dining room and everyone had a perfectly lovely time.
So...I guess it's not really necessary to cook after all!
Linda C

I once tried to make AnnT's sticky toffee pudding in a friend's microwave. Oy. Either it's just not my kind of dessert or I really blew it. It was so traumatizing I blocked out my memory of the results so I can't even go back to HOW I messed up,

Linda,
The Biscotti Beasts must having been roaming everywhere this weekend.
I was trying 3 new recipes (to be sold at a Christmas Bazaar on Friday).
First one was very dry, crumbled upon slicing and ended up mostly in our "Bowl of Nibbles".
Second one mixed up well. Rolled well. Held it's shape.
Third one mixed well, but seems a little soft compared to #2. Add a little flour and it seemed 'problem solved'.

Decided to bake the 4 rolls on one cookie sheet. D _ _ N!!
Wouldn't you know, they'd spread....together.
Yes, one chocolate dough, one almond (light) dough.

Of course, it's the only opportunity I have to finish this baking and it's now 9pm.
Gave 'em a "shave" to separate colors, sliced and baked.
Rescued, but still not a proudly successful attempt.

Sigh.
Can the Beasts please go live somewhere else now? Another planet maybe?

Deanna

I never met an ugly biscotti I didn't like!...all the more for the nibbles bowl!
I was going to make another batch today, just to prove that I could....but the furnace pilot went out and I waited while the repair guy tried to fit me in, not sure that he wouldn't have to shut off the power.......and finally I no longer have icecicles hanging from my nose, and I am out of the mood!
And tomorrows' just Party Party Party all day!! LOL! I have a bridge luncheon and a dinner meeting LOL!
maybe Wednesday!
Linda C...social butterfly!