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Hazelnut Cookies

Food has always been a love of mine, but it took me a while to turn that love into a profession. Seven years ago, while working as an account manager at a ad agency, I told the Art-Director that I dreamt of publishing my own cook book, with all my recipes. She offered to introduce to me her mother, Elinoar Rabin. I almost fainted at that moment. Anyone in-the-know about the Israeli culinary scene knows that she is a well-known cook-book author and editor, and the woman behind the food column in Israel's Maariv Style Magazine for 15 years. The same column that I now have wrote for, for the past year. A few days later, sitting in Elinoar's apartment in Jaffa, we started working on my first cook- book, "Simply Entertaining". Elinoar is the one who helped me get my start and opened my eyes to the Israel culinary world, which until then had been just a dream of mine. A week ago I was invited to Elinoar's new book release party: "Coffee and More", which she wrote in conjunction with Ilan Shenhav,... 
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Fig, Macadamia and Pistachio Biscotti

Oh biscotti, how I love thee. Crispy, tasty, easy to make, fat free and mostly addictive. A loose interpretation of these Italian cookies is "twice baked"- first you bake the entire ball of dough, then after it cools, thin cookies are sliced and then baked again until dried out. If you have two bowls and a good bread knife, you are set, because those are the only tools you will need to make these cookies. If you don’t have dry figs, macadamia nuts or pistachios in your pantry, no need to worry, the fillings can change according to whatever you have at home- see the ingredient list below. Get to work. Ingredients for 35 cookies: For the buttering of parchment paper: Oil spray (such as Pam) For the biscotti: 2½ cups (350 grams) all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 2 large eggs + 2 egg yolks 2 tablespoons Frangelico (Hazelnut liqueur) or any liqueur of your choice 1 cup (200 grams) sugar 1 cup dry figs, cut into quarters or ¾ cup raisins,... 
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