How I spent my day off.....

Members own writings, photography, music, art, poetry, prose.
Show off your own stuff, share the pleasure, suffer the critics.
Post Reply
User avatar
Gob
Posts: 33642
Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:40 am

How I spent my day off.....

Post by Gob »

Image

Image

Image


Image

Image

It now gets sealed in glad wrap, and fed whisky once a week until Xmas.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

User avatar
Guinevere
Posts: 8989
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:01 pm

Re: How I spent my day off.....

Post by Guinevere »

You don't spend enough time with fruitcakes already?
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké

User avatar
Bicycle Bill
Posts: 9015
Joined: Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:10 pm
Location: Surrounded by Trumptards in Rockland, WI – a small rural village in La Crosse County

Re: How I spent my day off.....

Post by Bicycle Bill »

... they were probably as edible now as they were on the day they were baked, although 'forged' was a better term.
Looking at that, I can see from where Terry Pratchett got his inspiration for the Discworld's 'dwarf bread'.
Image
-"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?

User avatar
MajGenl.Meade
Posts: 20703
Joined: Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:51 am
Location: Groot Brakrivier
Contact:

Re: How I spent my day off.....

Post by MajGenl.Meade »

Delicious! Save me a piece! (And may God save us all from ignorant barbarians!)
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

User avatar
RayThom
Posts: 8604
Joined: Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:38 pm
Location: Longwood Gardens PA 19348

How I spent my day off.....

Post by RayThom »

Gob, I've been an out-of-the-closet fruitcake lover for quite a few years now. If friends come over I no longer have to pretend to use my fruitcakes as doorstops, footstools, or auto jack stands. I now freely display them on my kitchen counter, especially with slices missing.

I now proudly proclaim, "Hello, my name is Ray... and I enjoy eating fruitcake."
Image
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.” 

User avatar
Gob
Posts: 33642
Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:40 am

Re: How I spent my day off.....

Post by Gob »

Guinevere wrote:You don't spend enough time with fruitcakes already?
Between here and work, probably.....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

User avatar
BoSoxGal
Posts: 18298
Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:36 pm
Location: The Heart of Red Sox Nation

Re: How I spent my day off.....

Post by BoSoxGal »

Looks lovely! I too am a fruitcake aficionado; one of my keen lamentations over the loss of the elder generation is that there are no more homemade fruitcakes at holiday gatherings.

Do you share your recipe?
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan

User avatar
Gob
Posts: 33642
Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:40 am

Re: How I spent my day off.....

Post by Gob »

It was my first attempt at a Xmas cake, so I used this recipe, but did some variations on it.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/260 ... stmas-cake
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

Post Reply