Everyone who's anyone is all aflutter over Jennifer's Bill O'Reilly Cookie. It is, indeed, a wonderous piece of culinary artwork, to be sure. I, myself, am jealous of her artistic skills and the flawless execution of said cookie. So, please no one take this the wrong way.
My underling, last year's Number Two, who I am about to have thrashed at any moment, just left this comment to the Bake-off contestants and observers:
Jennifer has indeed astonished and amazed us all, but remember that taste is worth 20 points, whereas appearance and creativity only count for 10 each. And while I can’t speak for other judges, I personally give reasonably high scores to even simple items that are well-executed. Being a cook myself, I tend to ask: did you accomplish what you set out to do? Does this taste and look how it should?That being said, outlandishly beautiful or surprisingly flavored items tend to gain points in the creativity column.
To which I replied...
"did you accomplish what you set out to do? Does this taste and look how it should?"As I sit here stroking my chin and lighting my pipe, wearing my navy velvet blazer beside the roaring fire…I have to say I shall contemplate the same worldy questions…
Being last year's Grand Prize, Number One Winner, that means I am indeed a cook myself...
So, I tend to ask ... please, will someone -- please, I beg of you -- thrash him?
It's gettin' ugly!!! :)
Hey, I have all of my cookies up at my place. I am hoping that some also taste good. :) Not all are flavored with the essence of media whores and loofahs.
Posted by: Jennifer | December 16, 2006 at 05:31 PM
BG, I think that if you can find a way to hand paint a likeness of the photo you posted below, that of the "really cool, old weathered little garage with a pretty Christmas wreath" on a sugar cookie, your chances are still good...
Posted by: Connie | December 16, 2006 at 05:37 PM
I loved most of BG's but the green wreaths, they tasted like Play-Doh. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they WERE Play-Doh. However, GC's fave cookie topping EVAR! are red hots, so somehow she still loved those.
Posted by: Pinko Punko | December 16, 2006 at 05:42 PM
Play-doh tastes good.
We serve it at every holiday.
Posted by: TC | December 16, 2006 at 05:58 PM
Your underling? Someone's feeling bold. Or been drinking.
Nice lime-green candy-studded cookie buttholes, by the way.
Posted by: Res Publica | December 16, 2006 at 07:33 PM
Hey, BG, at least Res thought they were cookie buttholes.
Score one for faboo!
Posted by: Pinko Punko | December 16, 2006 at 07:45 PM
Can we please clean up the language people?
Don't say gross words on my blog. Santa's watching.
Res. I'm sorry. But, that made me laugh too hard not to post it so it could be filed away for all eternity!
:)
p.s. I'm drinking Champagne.
:)
Posted by: blue girl | December 16, 2006 at 09:45 PM
Play-doh tastes good.
We serve it at every holiday.
:)
Please do not think that I am not totally and completely aware of how burned my lovely, best buddy Res must be knowing that I won last year using edible Play-doh!
...And that dastardly ingredient: Coconut.
:)
Posted by: blue girl | December 16, 2006 at 09:54 PM
Champagne, how charming. I'm drinking cognac on the rocks. And by "on the" I mean "from the bottle". And by "rocks" I mean "with pills".Anyway, play-doh girl, all I was trying to communicate with my comment that yoy found so amusing is that you don't automatically get low scores for simple things and high scores for hand-painted royal icing sculptures of The Decider in Chief falling off his bike. Uncomplicated baked goods can still be mind-blowingly good (unless they were extruded from Blue Girl's "kitchen"), and we will judge accordingly.
Posted by: Res Publica | December 16, 2006 at 10:38 PM
Make it stop!
Posted by: Pinko Punko | December 16, 2006 at 10:58 PM
Champagne, how charming. I'm drinking cognac on the rocks. And by "on the" I mean "from the bottle". And by "rocks" I mean "with pills".
:)
I wish I could embed my cackle into comment threads. That would be great! Sometimes that dumb smiley face does *not* say it all.
I know what your (do air quotes now) main point was (end air quotes) in that comment, pill popper! What do you take me for?
It just sounded a tad serious for my liking.
Posted by: blue girl | December 16, 2006 at 11:06 PM
...and stop calling me a yoy.
Posted by: blue girl | December 16, 2006 at 11:07 PM
Look, I'm gettin' tore up and I'm blogging on a 3 inch wide keyboard where I have to type with my thumbs. Cut me some slack, yoy!
Posted by: Res Publica | December 16, 2006 at 11:17 PM
Cut me some slack, yoy!
No!
...cackle
Posted by: blue girl | December 17, 2006 at 12:08 AM
"Nice lime-green candy-studded cookie buttholes"
LOL!!!
Posted by: Jennifer | December 17, 2006 at 01:23 AM
So, I was in the fetid crawlspace under 3 Bulls! trying to figure out what had been chewing on the wiring, and I found (in addition to a shiny green cookie that looks a lot the ones in that picture – what are those things made of?) a leftover comment from several months ago which says: "I hereby ... renounce my thrown". While this comment is not really signed per se, it does seem clear that the person who wrote it may quite easily have at least two Ps as initials. I thought other possessors of throwns might be interested in knowing this.
Posted by: plover | December 17, 2006 at 04:13 AM
Plover, I made recipe cards for all my deliciousables last year, but lost the files when my computer crashed and burned a couple of weeks ago.
PP? Do you still have them? Did you save them? If so, drop the recipe here in the comment threads for my edible Play-Doh. I feel as though people are dying to make them for the Holidays!
Also! Plover, You mean, I not only sit on my Thrown and own the Bake-off? But, I now have a Fake Digby PhD in Nailing It!?
Awesome!
Posted by: blue girl | December 17, 2006 at 08:45 AM
put up a couple of genesis mash-ups for you to totally decry the state of the world on the blog.
and champagne? wow. someone's started the holiday party early. what timezone is your thrown in?
Posted by: almostinfamous | December 17, 2006 at 11:09 AM
I am hardly a Fake Digby to go around bestowing PhDs hither and yawn ;)
I was merely pointing out that the production of throwns was not limited to one instance, and that the multiply P'd denizen of this bloggy neighborhood seems to have been involved in producing one.
A humble person such as myself could not possibly predict the consequences that might result from carelessly leaving a thrown lying around. Perhaps you should send your underling to investigate? As I recall, it was he who was most attuned to pointing out the glories of your thrown when it arrived.
Posted by: plover | December 17, 2006 at 06:28 PM
Et tu, plover?
BG- chickety checking on yo recipe cards, give a yoy a break!
Posted by: Pinko Punko | December 18, 2006 at 12:57 AM
Blue Girl the cornhole called your cookies Play-doh. Are you going to take that?!! Mark him down.
Posted by: Adorable Girlfriend | December 18, 2006 at 07:03 PM