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Okay, I just received this lovely blog-feedback from a loyal reader:
...Man, enough cookies and shit...let's get back to world poverty and infant mortality and the utter futility of life...I guess the holidays bring out the estrogen in everyone.
I know, I know... I haven't posted anything for a few days... I figured I'd revel in my Bake-Off entry for awhile... after all, even though some people used interesting ingredients like Kaffir Lime and Habanero Chiles in their non-baked items, I did notice that no one so far has turned up with anything even remotely close to the Limited Edition, Bill O'Reilly "I Got Yer Holiday Package" Cookie...
Here it is again for those of you who have forgotten the splendor of its cookiness... And yes, it is completely edible... that is if anyone truly wants to think about eating Bill O'Reilly...
He was not the only cookie in the submission though. There was a vast cornucopia of holiday entries. Enough to boggle the mind and the taste buds, but I digress... And besides, I was told, ENOUGH ABOUT COOKIES! As if there could be enough. As one of my fair judges would say, "Pshaw!!!"
But... I'll agree... enough about cookies for awhile... enough until I WIN! :)
I have been meaning to write about something else... but my mind has been blank. Some of it is due to sheer exhaustion from keeping up with the increasing demands of the season, but a large part of it is that I realized I am brain dead from the social aspects of the season. Don't get me wrong, I am a social animal. I love to talk, to debate, to babble on endlessly, but there are some events where you walk away and wonder why you were there. Those events happen with increasing frequency during the holiday season. I have gotten better at begging off of most where I know I really have nothing to contribute other than to honor the invite, but still, there are those where you still must say yes and what has this whole blog thing been about if not saying yes???
This past week I went to a couple of events that had me scratching my head, wondering why I was there. Sure, they were okay, but were they as fulfilling as this event must have been?
No...
Instead of coming home with my head swimming with interesting thoughts, I noticed my brain was rather thought-free and just a tad bit sad... so that is the reason for the thought-free blog. It was easier to post about cookies...
Ahhhh! Cookies! Now there's a subject I can get behind!
Hey, that reminds me... have I told you about the Peppernuts and my hand-painted cookies??? And... have I mentioned BILL O'REILLY???
Alright, how about a compromise: cookies depicting frozen-solid mountain climbers? Or how about that pit-bull puppy that chewed off a baby's toes while the parents slept in a drunken stupor? THAT'd be a dynamite cookie scenario. Just trying to do my part...
Posted by: glen | December 18, 2006 at 02:45 PM
GLEN!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 18, 2006 at 02:49 PM
Boy, that's what I've needed. Some *glen* humor!
:)
Oh boy. Can't laugh. Nope. Something will attack my Chakra again. Something will mess with my star alignment. My karma will get me.
Nope. Not going to do it.
You're bad, glen.
Bad.
Santa's watching.
Posted by: blue girl | December 18, 2006 at 03:55 PM
"Man, enough cookies and shit...let's get back to world poverty and infant mortality" Perhaps he broke a crown on the neuse in the pfefferneuse. I loved those, btw, but brother and sister liked springele(?sp) when we were growing up.
Posted by: Exiled in New Jersey | December 18, 2006 at 05:28 PM
Exiled- I preferred the pfefferneuse as well, but just hearing springerle makes me smile... which then had me thinking of lebkuchen...
Oh my GOD!!! I'm back on COOKIES!!!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 18, 2006 at 05:55 PM
Oh my.
Posted by: The Heretik | December 18, 2006 at 05:56 PM
Think of glen, Jennifer.
Think of glen.
:)
Posted by: blue girl | December 18, 2006 at 06:27 PM
Anyone notice that Blue Girl only comments on cookie posts, too?
PSHAW indeed, J-bird.
You blog about cookies until your heart is content. What the world needs is more cookie love, not less.
Posted by: Adorable Girlfriend | December 19, 2006 at 08:26 AM
Jennifer, can I get your recipe for the peppernut cookies? I want to see if I can't stop eating them too.
Posted by: Claire | December 19, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Jennifer, your Holiday Cookies look like masterpieces. I used to go into cookie-making frenzies, and so can imagine just how much energy and how many hours, besides sheer artistry, those cookies must have taken. Do you make them every year? My suspicion is that you must be possessed. And if so, you have no choice but to ride your cookie obsession out: poverty and infant mortality will no doubt be waiting for you when and if your baking fanaticism fades. And if they are NOT waiting for you? Who is to say that your baking in some wholly irrational, mysterious way did not conquer evil?
Posted by: grasshopper | December 19, 2006 at 11:26 AM
Claire... warning, the recipe takes 16 cups of flour and makes approx. 600-700 cookies... are you sure you want to tempt fate? :)
Grasshopper- I like your thinking!!!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 19, 2006 at 12:59 PM
AG- I agree! More cookie love!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 19, 2006 at 02:25 PM
Just send me some cookies!
Posted by: Chuckles | January 03, 2007 at 01:03 PM