Things You Probably Didn't Know You Could Do With A FruitcakePaint a few white and place them outside on the grass so people won't park on your lawn.Use it as building material. (This is actually what the Ancient Egyptians used to build the Great Pyramids.)Keep one under your pillow for home defense. Send one to the junk mail company with a note asking them to take you off their list.It's colorful, use it as a Yule Log.Carve the Presidents' faces in it and submit as a science or art project.Give one to your boss and tell him it's a life preserver.Use it as a base for flower arrangements.Donate to the local airport for use as airliner wheel blocks.Grind a few up and give it back to your in-laws in a bag marked "lawn fertilizer"For a community project, sink a few in the ocean and build an artificial reef.Tie one to each foot when you walk through deep snow to keep your feet dry.I see you! Don't forget to leave a comment and have a great day. :)
That’s right, faux fruitcake. As, I've mentioned before, after hearing about my friend K’s real Christmas cake, I’ve been wanting one. Nevertheless, I was too late to start one of my own. Then while browsing my favorite blogs, I noticed people making butter rum cakes. “Ooooh” …Butter Rum Pound Cake. I checked to see if I had all the ingredients, butter …check, rum …check, eggs …check, cake mix from a box …check, wait ...what? Cake from a box? Oh, no. I can’t. I won’t.I know some cakes mixes are …okay. It’s just that I don’t want to bake from a box. I like to know what I’m eating. On the other hand, should I say, I like to be able to pronounce what I’m eating. I generally like to bake as organically as I can. Through trial and error, I know that organic powdered sugar doesn’t work well when making icing. It doesn’t mean I won’t try a new brand of organic powdered sugar if I see it. One day they’ll make it great and I’ll give up my C&H po
By: Robert E. Bear My grandmother, Martha Wobik, used to make fruitcakes, actually I enjoyed a little bit of them, as they were rich. Over the years they have received various degrees of notoriety. David Letterman used to have them thrown off the top of buildings. Here's a comical look at the generic species of them.After one becomes unemployed it is amazing where one’s thoughts can become lost (In light of the following suggestions it’s highly debatable as to whether or not they should be found.). One evening while lying in bed (Not that I really lie or purposely tell untruths, but I do spend many evenings...morning...afternoons... and, well, some holidays in bed.) I was contemplating ideas for a comic strip on working class people. I used to be in that group; so, I figured I knew something about it. My best ideas usually come in the “twilight zone”, that nebulous period between the time I take an antihistamine for allergy relief to help me sleep and the moment my mind opens
We bought fruitcake from Costco, a few weeks ago. They're the pre-packaged kind with the Kirkland brand. As soon as I saw it, I wanted to get it because I got reminded of a fruitcake I'm used to getting as a present from one of my former colleagues at Procter & Gamble. It's so delicious. It's made by my friend's mother, a British national. Every Christmas, I used to look forward to that fruitcake.Now, this Kirkland fruitcake was so bad, it tasted like sugar. After my first bite, I knew my $12.99 was gonna go down the garbage bin. Believe it or not, it's that bad, that I only took just one bite. So buyers, beware...
Despite a general begrudging acceptance amongst a large swathe of the corporate media that Ron Paul is a real contender for the Republican nomination following the hugely successful November 5th "money bomb" campaign, a CBS News op-ed piece today labels the Texas Congressman a "meaningless" "fruitcake" with "no chance" of winning.read more | digg story
Hearing The Boy's car crunch the gravel in the driveway at 9:30pm last night, I raced down the stairs to greet him. He was accompanied by 4 buckets of Viognier grapes, complete with visible creepy crawlies escaping from the top. But, before I could freak out, he gave me this:
Oh. Well, OK then.
He explained that he needed "toping" juice for his wine as it fermented. This is sometimes called the "angels share". When wine ferments in oak barrels, often times 1 to 5 % of the juice evaporates. (you oak ferment for a number of reasons including imparting the toasted flavor of the oak into the wine) and to keep then amount of oak that is imparted into the juice, you want to be consistent and not have one barrel of wine be more concentrated with oak flavor then another. But, Ryan doesn't need the Viognier grapes yet, or rather, he doesn't have time to press them for the juice. So, they need to be kept cold, until he is ready to sue them.
I happily trimmed the
(Resep Online) - I love to cook and so I would love to share one of my favourite fruit cake recipes. About the second time I made this fruitcake I made a mistake with the flour and made it with plain flour instead of self raising and you wouldn't believe it, it still turned out OK. Of course it didn't rise, but the fruit was still distributed evenly and it was more like a slice rather than a cake. So whatever you do with this cake it still turns out OK.So here it is and I hope you enjoy it!Take 350 grams of sultanas and 350 grams of mixed dried fruit, cover with water in a large saucepan and boil for 5 minutes or until fruit is plumped up. Drain water off and add 125 grams butter 1 cup of brown sugar 1/4 teaspoon Almond Essence 1 teaspoon Vanilla EssenceMix the above with the fruit while it is still warm and then allow to cool somewhat.When cooler, add 3 well-beaten eggs, then approx 1 and 1/2 cups of self raising flour. (You may need more if white flour is used. I always use wholeme
Back by popular demand - Friday! Such a nice day to put before Saturday. Fridays are for fun, well at least on my blog they are. I have written about everything from socks to fruitcake. The next logical step is to try it all in one post. I won't do it but the idea does put a smile on my face.
The title for this may not seem like a good fit but it makes sense to me. Sometimes friends and family members give me ideas for Friday blog posts. The title comes from their suggestions. I put it out there so they know I am paying attention.
I decided that I would like to try a rerun. They do that on television all the time and I don't see why it can't be done on a blog. Last December I wrote a post about fruitcake. The post got a lot of traction. Kristal Kraft - Denver's top Realtor has often been invited to my blog for fruitcake, she really hates fruitcake. I just send her a note
Someone has been eating the fruitcake.A large platter of fruitcake was set out last night and by noon today, only two small pieces remained. I was shocked. "Who here likes fruitcake?" I demanded of my in-laws when I saw the telling remnants. There was an awkward silence and then my mother in law confessed, "actually I kind of like it..."It was a sobering moment. I had so many accusations, questions and pleas spinning in my head. My stare was fixed on the cake platter and I couldn't understand how something this terrible could happen on Christmas day. My sense of security with these people has vanished. After six years of marriage into the Flake family I suddenly discover them to be fruitcake eaters. How could I have known? The sick feeling in my stomach could only be compared to finding out that your spouse has contracted some devastating disease. Now what? Like so many before me, I realized that education was my only defense. Perhaps if I learned more about this disgusting
