Had the Bake Off 2013 last night at my place. It went extremely well.
Above is a group photo of everyone. We had a lot of fun!
These and a few more pics are up on my password protected site of: www.royaltruecolours.com
Jamie Hawkins, Jeremiah Jacques, Reniel Padua, and Benjamin Tauer fill out a fun game questionnaire that we played later on that evening.
The Eagle has landed! Tasha Eagle just after she has arrived.
I really like this pic of Paulette Corey working on the game questionnaire!
Justin Goodearl and Jordanya Rouzer smile
Sean Davison tries to avoid the camera, but that is impossible to do with me around! :-)
Sharalee Fraser and others working on the game papers and chatting before dinner.
Let the Judging Begin! Joel Hudson-Stewart and Justin Goodearl who by the way has a black eye from trying to do gymnastics, ha, ha, no he didn't get punched by anyone, begin to judge some of the desserts along with the other judges..
All of the judges worked hard, and took their job very seriously to be fair. Took them a bit of time to decide the winner. Let's see the judges were Joel Hudson-Stewart, Reniel Padua, Anthony Chibarirwe, Grant Turgeon, and Justin Goodearl. Such a great act of sacrificing service they had to perform in eating desserts. :-)!
Okay, so Grant might get me for posting this pic, but as you can see this job was "so difficult" tasting and judging yummy desserts. :-)! BTW--Winston Schlote baked the cake from scratch that you see in the front. He got second place.
Grant announces the winning dessert to everyone...drum roll please.
The winning dessert was Tasha Eagle's and Danielle Underwood's cupcakes! They worked hard on them and they were yummy!
I like this pic of Chelsea Cocomise and Winston Schlote. They, along with everyone else look so happy. That's great!
After the judging we played a game that I made up called "Building up the Family." It's where everyone anonymously had to write down their favorite character quality of everyone there except themselves(what you saw on earlier pics), and then we put them in a big bowl, shown with Reniel above, and we took turns randomly pulling each one out. We would read them and try to figure out who the person was according to their character quality that was being read. We learned a lot about each other in this way, and it was an interesting way to see what others thought about us. Fun game!
Still playing the game
....and still playing the game...it's Tasha's turn. :-)
Food prep for pizza...So fun, I'm so addicted to cooking. Love it!!!
Everything went well, but I pulled one pizza from the oven too fast and the crust wasn't completely done, but people still ate it. I only noticed after folks had gone through, but oh well, the rest were in tact! :-)
A trick that my high school home ec teacher showed me, put corn meal on the bottom of the pizza pan to add texture.
Spiced up the lemonade with strawberries on the cups. :-)
Thanks for Paulette for helping me top the pizza's when I was running late in getting things in order before the rest of the guests arrived.
I cook so much I've gotten absent minded. I was "jamming" to music while cutting up onions and was cutting to the beat of the music without looking at what I was doing when the knife came down and my exact thought was "uh oh, that didn't feel like the onion that I cut." I'm okay though, my thumb just looks ugly and it's what slowed me down putting me behind in getting things ready on time. Paulette saved me! Thanks again P!
The cool game questionnaire!
I'm keeping my answers that others wrote from the game. I heard some others are keeping theirs too. It's nice to know what strengths you have to work on them to serve others even greater. A great night thanks to and b/c of the wonderful friends who attended!
