Twenty-four different cookies! You have got to be kidding!

Maybe we should run a Calcutta for the Sandboxers who enter the cookie contest.

Bucky - run a Calcutta?

Dahlink, so totally on. What sort of life has this woman led?
But what am I saying? I know EL. It's entirely possible she baked a different cookie every day for 24 straight days (and we wonder why The Gailor swoons at accounting minutia?) worked a couple daily tennis matches into a full-time (albeit newspaper) job and demanding blog schedule even as she dined out, cooked in, and read a couple dozen books and magazines a day.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit, come to think of it, to learn she's quadralingual and ambidextrous.
And here's the kicker: she's lazy.
Scary? Brrrrrr.

Twenty-four different cookies: Martha Stewart eat your heart out. I guess this is one of the perks of Mom being Food Editor (time for a trip in the Way-Back Machine.)

I should send her the one I have for kourabiedes. Dry, Greek, sugarcoated cookies. My aunt loves them. Last Christmas, I got out my Yaya's old cookbook and my mom, sister and I attempted the recipe.

I do not exaggerate, it calls for about 15 cups of flour, some sugar, chopped nuts, and like 2 sticks of butter. Needless to say, the dough doesn't exactly "stick" together. We had to separate it into multiple bowls there was so much flour. I have never been so disgusted making cookies in my life.

I'll stick to making baklava.

As any unix geek knows, the path to efficiency is laziness.

One year, my mother handed me _The Joy of Cooking_, and asked me what holiday cookies I wanted. I thumbed through, picked out a few and gave her the list. She said, "Great, I've got most of the ingredients for these. You can go to the store and get the rest, then bake them. They sound yummy."

Beware of mothers bearing cookbooks.

Bourbon Girl...a Calcutta.

Any contest is more interesting when you have a betting interest in the outcome.

Twenty-four different cookies!

I have a son who, when offered a fancy, the-ingredients-cost-a-week's-lunch-money and they-took-forever-because-the-dough-had-to-chill-twice Christmas cookie, asked "Are we too poor to buy chocolate chips?"

wow! I used to think I was lucky the one or two times a year my mom got in the mood to bake and we got Tollhouse cookies!

As any unix geek knows, the path to efficiency is laziness

Laziness is just a jealous person's appraisal of your efficiency and happiness.

My lovely Mexcian friend Nadine used to say that we had an ideology of laziness. Now that's committing to an idea.

Bucky, if you want a contest you have a real betting interest in, try a Tontine.

R-I-E - I've never heard of a Tontine. Thanks for adding to my gambling knowledge. (Mrs. Bucky thanks you, too. Ha Ha Ha.)

But I wouldn't want that. It appears that in a Tontin, I would be betting on myself. In a Calcutta, I could bet on...well, let's just say I know who I would bet on, but I'm not sayin'.

Bucky -- if you want to learn more about how a tontine (mal)functions, I highly recommend the classic 1966 English comedy The Wrong Box.

Dahlink - I'll add it to the queue. Although I have to tell you, I'm just starting to get the newly-issued Man from U.N.C.L.E. series and it will take me a while to get through that.

There was also a MASH episode about a tontine.

Tontine. Oh the tontine is a classic of the msyery genre, because everybody but one has to die.

Don't forget the tontine episode of the Simpsons where Grandpa Simpson and Mr. Burns are the only surviving tontine members.

Bart finds his Grampa's war stories farfetched, until Mr. Burns tries to kill the elder Simpson to seize a treasure the two found during the Big One as members of "Flying Hellfish" battalion

hmpstd - you are correct about The Wrong Box. Not just about tontine malfunctions but a classic! I am going to make it a point to see it again in the next couple of weeks!

hmpstd...my apologies. I addressed to Dahlink my reply to your movie suggestion. I'm a doofus.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Is the cookie in the top left corner of the picture a cherry nut slice? My grandmother makes these and they are a big family favorite however I have never known anyone else to make them.

There was also a MASH episode about a tontine.