The Apple Adventure

Today, Christine Noble and her sisters hosted "The Apple Agenda-The Great Gala Bake-Off". Each sister baked five different dishes made with apples. Then each of the guests tasted each dish and voted. There were several categories. You were given a small colorful strip of paper for each category and you were to place your votes in the Mason jars by each dish. I could not believe how many apple dishes they came up with; sweet dishes, apple/cheese, and Christine even had a smoked salmon with apple horseradish.

Below, one of my favorites was the "Apple in a Sleeping Bag." 

It was delicious but I really liked the title.

I didn't take pictures of all of the dishes and wished I had close-ups of

the tags with the titles. They were very cleaver.

My favorite choice was actually one of Christine's dishes:

Apple and Cheese Quesadilla

They were out-of-this-world. I ate five triangles, what a pig!

They also encouraged everyone to come dressed for the occasion. I made a simple apple apron that turned out pretty well and even won a prize, but the real prize went to Colleen's mother who came as "Granny Smith." She painted her face green and, you can't see it but, had support hose and her husband's black dress shoes on. It was a riot.

Doesn't Colleen look so cute pregnant?

The Four Diehl sisters, grandma Diehl on the left and an "adopted" sister on the right.

It was a great afternoon, but I am stuffed and won't eat for at least 24 hours.

Thanks Christine for inviting me.

For all of you who live outside of Ohio, have you seen the same gas advertisement at your local gas station? I just had to share this picture because I am still in shock that we are below two dollars.  Tom and I just returned from New York where the low price was $3.09. Well then that's New York.

Hope all of you are having a great day.