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.
Kat & lori had me try some pepper chocolate. It was different.
Pepper chocolate sounds like something Leif might invent.
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.
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.
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.
"feeding the bitch."
the only part I liked of KC, the book.
yes, it is our fond Bourdain shout out.
Where is Kat? She was looking for saddle shoes the other day. Because here`s a source that was a Dress A Day today:
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