{"id":17879,"date":"2012-01-23T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=17879"},"modified":"2012-01-24T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:51:07","slug":"homestyle-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/homestyle-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Homestyle Cookies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/photo-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"photo-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"photo-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/photo-1_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, at our church, we always eat dinner together.&#160; It\u2019s no secret that I don\u2019t like to cook, and since it\u2019s potluck, sometimes, let\u2019s just say, I get shown up.&#160; Those of you who go to our church, know exactly what I\u2019m talking about.&#160; Long story short, one week I bring cheesecake with strawberry topping (from Costco) and Nick brings homemade cheesecake (giving him the nickname \u201cHomemade Nick,\u201d sorry Nick, it\u2019s stickin\u2019).&#160; The next week, I bring brownies and even sprinkle them with powdered sugar but oh no!&#160; AK brings brownies with a layer of oreos and a layer of cookie dough\u2026 what are the odds someone would bring the EXACT same dessert (only better) the last two times!&#160; Trust me, it\u2019s way funnier if you were there when I was being shown up\u2026 pretty hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this week we were supposed to bring a food that started with the first letter of our name.&#160; So, Mike got all fancy with the double \u201cM\u201ds\u2026 if we weren\u2019t going to win the fancy shmancy food award, we at least got the double initial award (which counts for something).&#160; Top that Betty Crocker Kitchens! (I just said that because Noelle and Anna Kate watch that EVERY day and are obsessed with how-to cooking videos\u2026 I guess I need to be too, oh snap!)<\/p>\n<p>*What makes these cookies Homestyle anyway?&#160; We were cracking up when we read that on the label.&#160; And the rest of the story is\u2026 our store bought \u201cHomestyle\u201d cookies were SO good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, at our church, we always eat dinner together.&#160; It\u2019s no secret that I don\u2019t like to cook, and since it\u2019s potluck, sometimes, let\u2019s just say, I get shown up.&#160; Those of you who go to our church, know exactly what I\u2019m talking about.&#160; Long story short, one week I bring cheesecake with strawberry topping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17898,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions\/17898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}