This morning, I had the pleasure of appearing on Portland radio station KPAM AM 860 as a guest of Simple Kitchen with Missy Maki. Missy is a local food blogger who talks about everything food on Sunday mornings. This year, Simple Kitchen hosted its first-ever Holiday Cookie Bake-Off, asking listeners to send in their recipes for a chance to win a gift basket with prizes including goodies from Tillamook Butter, LaGrima Vanilla, Wild Friends Peanut Butter and Bee Local. Out of the hundreds of recipes submitted, they chose a handful of favorites to be baked and brought into the station, enlisting a group of area bloggers to serve as both bakers and judges. I was assigned Chocolate Spice Crackle Cookies with Gingerbread Caramel and whipped up a fresh batch last night to share with everyone at the studio. I couldn’t wait to see what the other entries were!
There we so many treats to taste, from yummy Pistachio Cranberry Christmas Crisps made by Marisa to Rebekah’s tasty White Chocolate Cherry Almond Teacakes, which was eventually crowned the winner by our votes. But the prize for “Most original/insane” cookie has to go to Brandie, who was assigned the task of making a cookie using pine needles and Parmesan cheese as ingredients. You know, like pine needles from a tree? Brandie actually had to get a trimming from a pine tree and told of her adventures trying to chop up pine needles in a food processor. (Spoiler alert: It doesn’t work.) She did an awesome job baking such an unusual cookie!
I was the first guest on air, and I discussed the process of making my assigned cookie and what I thought of it. This is the first time I’ve been on the radio – unless you count the time I called into a local station in the 1990s and won a Flintstone VHS tape for answering a trivia question, but I’ve never been a real guest before. 😉 You can listen to the full show online at the KPAM website:
Hour 1 of Simple Kitchen With Missy Maki: Holiday Cookie Bake-Off – my segment begins at the 12 minute mark.
Hour 2 of Simple Kitchen With Missy Maki: Holiday Cookie Bake-Off
This was a very fun experience and I’m so glad I had a chance to take part with these lovely bloggers and DJs!
Beeb Ashcroft
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It was so fun to meet you! Remember, if you EVER need to chop pine needles, you’ll need a sharp knife. 😉
OMGosh I LOVE that picture of you! That had to be SO exciting! And thanks for the spoiler lol… I’ll have to keep that in mind if I ever get the idea to give that a try 🙂
Danielle – like Brandie said, just make sure you have a sharp knife 😉 And thank you!!
Brandie, it was awesome meeting you!
I’d love to try your cookies! That’s so cool that you were on the radio – it sounds like a fun program.
pine needles! in cookies!! i have so many cooking disasters…
you did great on your segment 🙂
The first time was when you won a Flintstone’s tape. That cracked me up. Congrats on your first real radio appearance!
What a totally FUN experience. Those cookies look yummy too!
What a fun experience. I love all of the pictures
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