Bake off or Blog off?

All is fair in baking and blogging.

Well, actually it wasn't a competition. Tamara and I just had a fun afternoon baking cookies together and we both knew we would blog about it. You can visit Tamara's blogspot at Mara's World to the right of this post and see how she handles the same subject!

We made comfort cookies for our husbands - chewy oatmeal raisin with walnuts and for a bonus we made Meredyth's snowball treats - which are the bomb, if I say so myself. Scrumptuous!

Are you kidding me? Did you think we made these too???

This is the reason I didn't take pictures of our cookies.

These little lovelies belong to Judy and her daughter Jennifer.

Some things are beyond me.

First of all, I would never even be able to make the cut out shortbreads, let alone decorate them!

My red chef's hat off to Judy for an excellent job. If there really was a bake off she would have won.

Here she is hamming it up with her doggy Tucker.

Carol, Linda,  Carol, Judy, Diane, Karen

Susan is missing in the group photo...

Here's the Joy Club enjoying Judy's eggnog lattes.

Hey, it's a rough life.

And check this out...

Here I am with Diane and she's actually telling me that she's going to try Bikram's hot yoga with me.

That's a conversation worth recording!

And do you know what?

She did it!

Again, my red chef's hat off to Diane for a job well done.

She managed to stay in the room for the full 90 minutes.

She was rewarded by our teacher Barb singing opera to us.

And it just happened to be Diane's favorite childhood song that her

mother used to sing to her in French.

Is that a reward, or what??

I haven't mentioned that Diane had Bob and me as guests the other night

for a gourmet meal that you wouldn't believe. I might as well just give

her the red chef's hat. She's amazing!

Fun times and more keep coming.