I never really got why fruitcakes was so reviled either. Maybe we just had people who made damned good fruitcakes giving them to us. It was quite the scandal that Cousin Birger always sent my grandparents fruitcake and they were teatotallers. They'd always pass it off to someone else, and once my parents were married, they were the recipients. Too bad Birger's dead now....
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 7:09:54 am PDT #9531 of 10002
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2005 7:10:24 am PDT #9532 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother's rum cake is amazing. Mmmm.
I had this really cool cookbook (I think it's underwater in NOLA right now) that had counter-intuitive (to the North American tongue, anyway) recipes. A great one was pepper chicken and apple pancakes. Nice, simple, and got me broken in for pepper and sweet, which blossomed into a love of brownies with chiles.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 7:11:48 am PDT #9533 of 10002
Kat & lori had me try some pepper chocolate. It was different.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2005 7:12:09 am PDT #9534 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
A great one was pepper chicken and apple pancakes. Nice, simple, and got me broken in for pepper and sweet, which blossomed into a love of brownies with chiles.
Mmm, that sounds good.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2005 7:12:43 am PDT #9535 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Pepper chocolate sounds like something Leif might invent.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2005 7:15:29 am PDT #9536 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat & lori had me try some pepper chocolate. It was different.
That stuff is like my on switch for a steak craving. So I pretty much avoid it.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 7:17:22 am PDT #9537 of 10002
Oh, it wasn't bad. It was just different, the way unsweet chocolate in some mexican recipes is different. There's a moment when you just sit there, trying to figure out, now what exactly does this taste like? I'm not a big sweet chocolate fan, so that was the biggest part of the eh for me.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 28, 2005 7:18:13 am PDT #9538 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
My grandma would cook fruitcake on New Years and store it in a container (in the coset or the fridge, there is some dispute over this) soaking it in rum monthly and gifting them the following christmas.
Last year we did this for a shorter period of time, before Thanksgiving, through Christmas. We referred to the daily spritzing with brandy as "feeding the bitch."
Me, getting home from work: Hi, honey. Did you feed the bitch?
Man that cake was good. I don't understand the bad rep fruitcake gets either. It must be those neon things in there.
msbelle - Oct 28, 2005 7:19:58 am PDT #9539 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
"feeding the bitch."
the only part I liked of KC, the book.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 28, 2005 7:22:40 am PDT #9540 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
yes, it is our fond Bourdain shout out.