Guilty pleasure, well that not that guilty…. I love to wake up to a double espresso. A couple years back I started having some strange feelings, fluttering in my chest, a feeling almost as if my heart was beating erratically. As I started working with @giftsofayurveda and Yogi Manmoyanand, I learned that I am vata dominant, in their words, like a feather, light, airy and my attention and body move rapidly from one place to another. Manu suggested a few simple changes that successfully eliminated all those strange sensations. He told me to wake up to a cup of warm water and drink it seated. You would never imagine how difficult it can be for a vata like myself to actually sit still for one cup of water. I often feel the need to wipe down the kitchen counter, weed my garden or get busy in some other way.

While he would have preferred that I drop my coffee habit (one double espresso a day), he said at least put something in your mouth before you have it. So, in honor of this pre-coffee bitre and many recipes later, these biscotti were born and they are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

So here´s the deal with biscotti, sometimes they leave behind an eggy flavor. I started making a recipe I got from a friend that is delicious but it was full of white flour, baking powder and soda, eggs and sugar, not the most nourishing. That said, the addition of a nice swig of liquor did an incredible job of reducing the eggy aftertaste and aroma, and so I began with different trials and experiments. 

I happened upon a recipe from Sarah Owens for a sourdough biscotti and since I am a bread-lover and sourdough obsessed, a love affair began.

What follows is my favorite combo of flours and aromatics, but please feel free to play.

Hope you love them as much as I do.