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: [link]

I don't understand the bad rep fruitcake gets either.

I did not know that fruitcake was drinky. Or maybe, it isn't consistently so, because my experience of fruitcakes was seeing them at various relatives' houses, full of those neon things, never being eaten. They seemed very generic (and probably store-bought) and pointless, as holiday confections go. You gotta be prettier to compete with church window cookies and gingerbread people and buche de noel, you know?

I wonder if you can make fruitcake without the fruit. Probably it would just be called "cake." With some nice confectioner's sugar or glaze on top, there's a chance I would eat it.

Anyone guessing next supreme court nominees? I'm thinking Edith Clement.

Because my grandma always used to make peparkokr (that's how she spelled it, who knows?- ah. Looks like it is pepparkakor) which was a really thin spice cookie.

This is what pepparkakor were to my Swedish grandmother. Small, thin, spicy, not at all sweet, and from a child's perspective, miserable, excuses for cookies. To this day, I eat a single pepparkakor at Christmas to please my mother, and then give thanks that I have a year before I have to eat another.

I wonder if you can make fruitcake without the fruit. Probably it would just be called "cake." With some nice confectioner's sugar or glaze on top, there's a chance I would eat it.

Nutty speaks for me. In general, I'm not a fan of dried fruit, nor anything made with it, and while I enjoy fresh fruit and many fruit-based desserts (peach ice cream, blackberry pie, etc.), with infinite desserts to choose from I go for the chocolate and/or nut-based.