Update: We've got a photo and a cookie post link!
7th in our continuing stream of baked goods comes from exotic lands from the north!! It's Mendacious D, recently elected ombudbirdpersonpantedman of 3Bulls!!! His baking, however, is connected in no way with 3Bulls! and all complaints regarding his baking should be made directly to Billy Pilgrim.
I was not sure if MenD was going to bake. You never know who the heck is going to bake in these bake-offs because everyone acts as if they're going to bake, but it's not until the cookie dough hits the road that you realize which people were serious and which were half-assed. Well baby, MenD baked!
I received a call the other morning from my beloved Grizzled. He said a strange package from foreign lands had arrived, what might it be?? Who was it from?!?!? We did not recognize a package of this sort because it was in good shape and had apparently not been beaten, squished, or mishandled within an inch of its life. This package must not have spent much time in the US Postal system. No... it had been sent air mail from our moose-loving brothers up north. It first touched down on US soil at O'Hare and was then quickly driven to Grizzled's office. I think the lesson here is perfectly clear. If you would like your goods to arrive undamaged, unharmed, unmaimed, you need to send your goods via Canada!
But onto the actual goods... As I said, I had not been sure if MenD was going to bake. I'm not sure I'd go to so much effort or expense. God only knows what you need to do to get homemade baked goods across country lines!! But MenD did it. Not only did he do it, but he cut out all of the crap and falderal that most entries succumbed to. He merely baked one most excellent cookie and then sent it through a superior postal service. End of story. MenD wins! Oh, I'm kidding. I have no clue who is going to win. Numbers have yet to be crunched. However, my point is, in this bake-off you can most definitely win even with an entry of one!!!
I've gotten off topic again, back to the actual baked good. MenD baked the most delicious and most beautiful peanut butter and jelly cookie. He has not supplied photos and had I been thinking, I would have taken one of my own because as I've mentioned, THEY ARRIVED INTACT! There was nary a molecule out of place and it's not even like he used mega-packing products! He packed in a Tupperware-type container with waxed paper and put that in a bubble wrap type of envelope! That's it! And they arrived INTACT!!! But back to the cookies. MenD's cookies were awesome. I think the thing we all appreciated was the lack of peanut butter hammer. I don't mind a peanut butter cookie, but one is usually plenty. Grizzled prefers less than that. Have I mentioned that Grizzled ate most of these??? Except for those that the lamblets won in battle? These were delicious. These were really moist as well... and the center dollop of jelly? Sublime. I don't know all that was going on here and MenD did not include his war chart in the lightly packed item that somehow still arrived intact, but these worked. I've been asked by those who live in my house, to GET THE RECIPE!
MenD??? If you're out there... send info! Send photos! Send details! We loved your cookies. We love your postal service!! We love your moose!!!
Give it up for MenD... our entrant from the exotic and faraway land of CANADA!!!
w00t!
I just wanted to second everything Jennifer had to say about the peanut butter and jelly cookies. I don't like peanut butter cookies very much, but there were more than palpable; they were scrumptdillyicious. Very soft on the inside and with the right amount of jelly in the center. My cookies also arrived in impeccable condition - nary a crumb had been displaced. These also are keeping very well, and will be a critical travel companion for AG and myself on our trip to Cauliflowernia tonight.
Posted by: The Uncanny Canadian | December 24, 2007 at 10:13 AM
CauliflowerORnia.
Posted by: Mandos | December 24, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Homeland Security and the USPS live in fear of the bureaucratic juggernaut that is Canuckistan. There is fear, real fear, of bringing down the Maple Hammer in/on George's pants.
Posted by: billy pilgrim | December 24, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Wow. How could Mendacious D come up with such a nefariously simple and delicious cookie. I am outraged! I was expecting some maple covered bottle cap and a Labatt's toque.
Posted by: Pinko Punko | December 24, 2007 at 01:53 PM
PB&J cookies!? what is this, kindergarten nap time?!
Posted by: Kathleen | December 24, 2007 at 01:56 PM
merry christmas to Jennifer, Grizzled and all their lamblets!
Posted by: almostinfamous | December 24, 2007 at 09:09 PM
Thank you, aif!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 24, 2007 at 09:15 PM
Apologies. A picture is here.
Posted by: Mendacious D | December 25, 2007 at 10:34 PM
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