i don't have the recipe but I do have a Stella D'Oro presence in my life. I work in the Bronx and get off the subway (the 1) at W 231st street, right where the Stella D'Oro factory is. Every single morning it smells like cookies baking when you get off the subway. It is the most amazing thing every and has led to some emergency cookie purchases at 8:20 in the morning.
oatmeal oatmeal oatmeal. I'm literally obsessed. every single morning during the week and weekend, not matter whether it's hot or cold out. I go to bed at night excited about waking up for it. always old fashioned, never ever instant.
I have 6 or 7 variations that I go through: walnut & apricot, peanut butter & apple butter, peanut butter & banana and on and on and on. love. it.
i'm so obsessed with pho. i made a ridiculously easy vegetarian version that was amazing. i'm still dreaming about it.
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i have to second (third? fourth?) smitten kitchen. I'm made several things off of her website and have loved everyone. and Deb's amazing (serious food porn here) don't hurt either.
everytime i go to someone's house or to a party, i'm always expected to have a few different types of (homemade-duh!) cookies in my hands.
also, i'm well known for a lentil recipe that i developed when i lived in spain as an english teacher when i had no money-it's a really inexpensive but fantastic recipe.
i bought my first bunch this past saturday and sauteed them in a little olive oil, salt and pepper. they were so delicious and simple. i think this method highlights the unique flavor and lets you enjoy their specialness. i'm now addicted!
barefoot contessa. i just love ina sooo much no matter how many hundreds of pounds of butter she puts in her recipes.
and i also love tyler's ultimate for some reason. it's always a good episode no matter what.
i'm a lurker, but thought i'd throw mine out there!
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i very much second a bowl of steaming pho. it's so amazing and certainly does the trick. slurp it down with some advil and lots of water, and you're all set.
even though it's starting to get warm, i like lots of broth based soups and stews. they are sooo good for you and filling.
I tried them once (probably '70's) and didn't care for them. Never bought again.
Wookie, they most certainly do still make Breakfast Treats! They're with all of the other Stella D'oro products...
As a child, I remember liking the fudge-filled shortbread cookies and going through all sorts of contrivances to just eat the fudge. I also liked the pale chocolate and vanilla shortbread fingers. The S-cookies not so much, because I found them very hard. You must have very strong teeth!
I Googled for the OP, and found two possible simulations:
Italian Love Knots (http://www.italiansrus.com/recipes/loveknots.htm)
and
Susamielli:( http://italianfood.about.com/od/biscottietc/r/blr1527.htm)
If anyone can tell me the traditional Italian source of the fudge cookies I'd love to know!
Oh man, the eighties! I used to love the Stella Doro commercial with the woman in her bathrobe at the kitchen table in the middle of the night eating the breakfast treats and wondering why she should have to wait til breakfast. I made sure we bought some and they were super good. I don't recall seeing them in the grocery stores anymore...I'm rarely in the cookie aisle, though.
I loved the "S" biscuits. Anisette Sponge and Toast. I grew up on Stella D'Oro - my dad is from Naples. Good luck finding a similar recipe! (But if you stop buying them they'll stop making them - like the White Lily Flour people...)
OMG! I grew up eatting Stella D'oro every morning for breakfast. I thought i was the only one, thank goodness i'm not alone! ;) I envy you betsyg! I can rarely find those yummies in the south, and when i do i tend to hoard them. SO doesnt care for any cookies so, they're all MINE!!! (cackling maniaclly) oops sorry guess the meds wore off ;)
I only get them occasionally but that's mostly because I can eat a package in 3 sittings.
My aunt adds a layer of geltanized milk between each flavored layer for a cool striped look - a childhood favorite.
Weekdays and weekends for me are pretty much the same: either Nature's Path Kamut Puffs or pumpkin spice french toast with cranberry sauce. Odd, but tasty!
During the week I try to set a good example for the kids, I'm big on having some protein for breakfast so I always try to get an egg, in some form, down their little gullets. I also have, at any given time, 6-7 tupperware containers full of washed, cut-up fruit in the fridge, which makes it easy to toss some on our plates in the morning. I love cheese omelets, oatmeal, chocolate malt-o-meal, hotcakes and turkey bacon...those are our weekday staples.
On weekends we usually head to out to eat for breakfast and we eat a lot heartier foods, corned beef hash, hash browns, eggs, turkey sausage. Sunday is always hotcake day with either turkey sausage or turkey bacon....I like to try a different hotcake every Sunday....last Sunday we had strawberry hotcakes, next Sunday we'll be having buckwheat with apple topping (or chocolate chip, pumpkin, sweet potato, blueberry, peach, whole wheat hotcakes, hotcakes made with cornmeal, banana pecan, german, pb&j hotcakes, buttermilk hotcakes....we are a family obsessed with our Sunday hotcakes.)
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