Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for November 20, 2020

Well, to be fair, he really has no idea of volume control. He was very young when he lost his hearing, so when told to make the announcement, volume goes to nearly full.

Of course, Lupin doesn’t know how loud he is. =3

Classic recipes all around!

Laughing hysterically at Lupin’s scream, Pucky’ description of kitchen activity, especially the Girl’s creation!

Many thanks to the Orb for all the prayers and good wishes sent my way. Love you all! ♥

It’s the Great Pink House Baking Show…

Yes, the Holiday Baking Championships. Hope Duff and Nancy like your creations.

This year has been tricky with Thanksgiving vs. Virus. Instead of being invited to niece’s place… I gave her a bunch of bakery items. One was a Rose Bundt Pan. Another was a Giant Gingerbread Man. Grand nephew seem to be thrilled with it. But…. I will have to admit… I am spooked they will bake something and send it over! A full Bundt cake will take me a month to eat! And the giant Gingerbread… maybe I could finish before Valentines!

The woman should make some marzipan for the boy to mold into whatever his creative mind fancies.

The Woman is wonderful, the boy brilliant, the Girl great and Lupin loud.

15 minutes? Can he finish the giraffe in that time? Will the woman be able to get the pie filled, covered, and baked so quickly? I think their efforts are doomed. Only the girl has a chance.

Poor Goldy. Her paws don’t quite reach her eats.

I meant ears not eats. Somehow Kindle does crazy things.

I love baked goods. My good friend who bakes constantly, lives on the other side of the country.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Thomios: Now for the technical challenge. Each baker will bake three batches of cats. One batch should be gingerbread, one sugar cookies, and the third is a dough of your choosing. Remember, you will be judged on taste, design, and creativity. You will have two hours to complete your cookies. Or biscuits, depending on which side of the pond you’re from!

Puckmosis: This is your Baking Cat News roving reporter. Sophititi, what are you doing for your special dough?

Sophititi: I’m making a spice dough from an ancient family recipe.

Puckmosis: Can’t wait to try them! Maat-Tilda, I see you’re going for a more abstract design.

Maat-Tilda: Yes, this is my special Krazy Kat design.

Puckmosis: Very innovative. Now a word with our judge Elvis-Anum. Elvis?

Elvis-Anum: I’m looking for that special something in a cookie. A simple decorated cat biscuit just won’t do. But I won’t be easily pleased.

Puckmosis: And there you have it, folks! Our best bakers trying to please a Siamese!

Is that an old grape or a raisin?

Yumm, I haven’t eaten paperclips for a long time.

Oh joy! The PBHBS continues!

Bake free, as free as the flour blows

As free as the grape rolls

Bake free, be it cake or a tart

Roll free and dough’s all around you

Boy & Girl still astound you

Each time you look at those stars

Live free where no rules confine you

Bake free ’til bright sweater guy

Yells that you need to hurry

Bake free and life is worth living

But only worth living

When you follow your own recipe

(Don Black / John Barry – Born Free)

Ah memories, baking with my Gram. She would let little hands play with the dough scraps and even those creations that turned grey from being handled would be sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and baked.

OT. Yen

What is Lupin shouting about?

Why aren’t we seeing the Severe Siamese Judge stalking around the work benches? Eyeing the contestants and sending them into a frenzy of self doubt.

Love to bake, thanks Mom and Nan(grandmother) for teaching me! The only problem is I want to eat it. Made apple dumplings yesterday, and share with my aunt. Next up Christmas cookies (sand tarts) can’t wait they are addictive!

It’s a gi-raffe, a gi-raffe! ;-)

There’s always an old grape under the refrig.

15 MINUTES!!! BAKERS!!! 15 MINUTES!!! WHAT GOLDIE?!!! I CANT READ YOUR WHISKERS WHEN YOU TALK THOUGH CLENCHED TEETH!!!

Who is everyone’s fav cat? It’s so hard to decide .

Lupin is the perfect one to do silly “Noel-esque” things.

The Girl is at a crucial moment. Will her paperclip structure hold up long enough for the judging or will it collapse at the last moment? The tension is almost unbearable.

jeez lupin, my hearing is bad enough without your shouting

It’s time for the Iron Chef Bakes – BCN Edition, with you host Lupin. I love the 15 Minute warning at the end.

The call of doom.

Sooo … Is Lupin being The Iron Chef ?!, … or Gordon Ramsay ?! … or WHAT??!! :)

I’m making educated guesses here but I’m assuming this would make more sense if I watched Reality TV, specifically programs on the Don’t You Have Anything Better To Do Than Watch Other People Prepare Food? Network.

Meanwhile, there’s a cat in living room “covering” a fur ball by scratching lint fluff over it.

OMG this is hilarious. This honestly should be on The Food Network.

The grape isn’t that old – it’s not a raisin.

Today is:

National Absurdity Day: What makes today different from any other day? When viewed objectively, the human race is absurd.

Speaking of absurdity, on this day in 1985, Windows 1.0 was released into the wild …

Name Your PC Day: Windon’t machines are typically named some variation of “!$#&*%$#!!!” Linux machines are named after fish (think penguin). Chromebooks are all named “Megalomaniac.” Macs used to have user friendly names, but are now more often called some variation on “!$#&*%$#!!!” or “Big Brother.”

Beautiful Day: Beauty is in the mind of the beholder, but so many fail to see even a small portion of the beauty that surrounds us. I’m not just talking about the obvious things that almost everybody agrees are beautiful—those are easy, and fine of themselves. But you have truly developed an eye for beauty when you can see it in a dirty, grimy, old, rusted diesel locomotive, for example.

National Peanut Butter Fudge Day: Aw fudge! I wanted chocolate. But then, I always want chocolate. One hundred grams (about the mass of two standard paper clips) may contain over 450 calories. So for those on a diet, the Girl’s paper clip confection may be recommended … also has plenty of iron …

Plating a pile of paperclips??

More ugh.

Lupin looks good in the rainbow sweater. It also guarantees his visibility.

That paper clip tart’s going to be interesting coming out of the oven.

You know, the more I look at this, the more I think the girl in panel 3 has the equivalent of the fang of enthusiastic concentration . . .

I laughed so loud I scared my cats.

I wanna sweater like Goldie’s.

O.T.

I see you’ve let Lupin watch CHOPPED.

What a lovely giraffe, Boy.

Chortling with gleeful abandon every time I look at Lupin in the last panel! If I wore sweaters, I’d want one like his.

Love the food network baking championship reference!

I found the show this is based on! It’s actually offered on Hoopla, which is connected to libraries and offers tv, films, audiobooks and so forth if you have an account at a library that offers it. Another service like it is Kanopy.

I love the Great British Bake-Off.

NAILED IT!