yummy biscotti alla giovanna

ok so find that after Easter you have an extra Columba. Maybe you're like me and the man at the fish market gave you one like a regalo when you bought two small fresh tunas.

And let's say that even after offering that Columba to friends at dinner, you still seem to have 1/3 of it, because everyone is on the dieta and no one wants to finish it all or take it home.

This is an idea inspired by the theme "transformers cookies in disguise"

Take 1/3 of a leftover columba, and crumble it using your hands into a big mixing bowl
Add 2 rows (like 8 squares) of chocolate chopped. You can use hazelnut milk chocolate by President's Choice, brought to Italy from Canada to show the Italians what kind of goods are produced in Canada, but then never offered to anyone out of embarassement. So you just keep it in the house for when you may need to transform a Columba and bake some cookies

Add one egg

A bit of milk (like a 1/4 cup or so)

17 noci, whizzed up into noci butter (I prefer the fresh ones that I sbuccia myself)

A bit of flour

1/4 of leftover pancake mix you happen to have in the fridge

Some sugar like a 1/4 cup (when I have no idea how much I put in I like to refer to all measurements as a quarter cup).

mix it all togther while cutting in 1 tablespoon or even one and a half of butter

grease a baking sheet with some butter and then sugar it

the dough should be too sticky to roll into balls, so with the aid of some flour on your hands work the dough into balls

Place on tray

cook at 180 for like 15 - 20 minutes. Alternating between the top and bottom rack
watch closely since I don't remember for exactly how long I cooked them for.

when the tops are goldeny brown they are done

They will be yummy and chewy and keep well in the freezer.

you will have your friend Daniela writing you texts the next day asking for the recipe.