FRUITCAKE

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Well, it has arrived once again this year. The traditional fruitcake from my cousin in Colorado. She just keeps on baking. It tastes pretty good but she packs it full of whiskey. After two or three slices I head straight to bed. And it toasts up pretty good for breakfast, burp!

[bobbbiez]

LUCKY YOU! ;D

In my family (who all hate fruit cakes) it's said if someone gave you one, then they didn't like you much. Same is said of someone giving your kids Play-Dohl.

Just for the record, I actually do like fruit cakes (not as in people), but in small amounts. Just don't tell my kids.

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lol. say play dough taste pretty good if I remember right. Gee, I must have not been liked very much what with getting play dough and fruitcake--oh well. at least the fruitcake is a little intoxicating

[chris]

Chris <---------------she never met a fuitcake she didn't like! ;D

[Clipper]

When we were kids, my mom had a friend on City St in Utica that made excellent fruitcakes, if there is such a thing. We used to be tasked with selling them door to door for her in our neighborhood in N Utica. They didn't have much money, and my mom said that it was the money they used to provide Christmas for her kids, so I really didn't mind.

Kathy and I don't like Fruitcake. We always got one every year from one of Kathy's relatives that has since passed on. We always regifted it to an uncle that loved the stuff. That way he got two, haha.

[bobbbiez]

Dec 19, 2010 12:39:30 GMT -5 @alanquigly said:

oh well. at least the fruitcake is a little intoxicating

Ya can save me a piece of that one. ;D

[stoney]

I LOVE fruitcake! I can't understand why most people don't like it. (But then again, I love fried liver, too...)

[Clipper]

I LOVE fried liver with onions. Especially when it is fried in bacon fat. Good old healthy high cholesterol, artery clogging, gout causing, greasy fried organ meat with onions and bacon. Haha.

I love a good fruitcake too! I they are big enough I use them for a wheel chock for the camping trailer, and if they are too small for that, I use them for door stops.

[bobbbiez]

Whose making us liver and onions? Please make mine with bacon along with the onions. ;D

Clip, don't worry about all that health crap. It's good in providing iron for the body when one can't take the pills.

Absolutely LOVE liver, especially chicken livers wrapped in bacon.

Both are from our poverty days when we couldn't afford much in meats but we still enjoy.

[Clipper]

I love liver and onions too BZ. Kathy sometimes wraps it in bacon and puts it in the oven, but usually dredges it in flour and fries it in bacon grease just till it is a little pink, but not raw in the middle. Liver is great stuff. When I was married to my youngest son's mother, her brother ran a small slaughter house. We used to quite often be gifted with the liver when he slaughtered a cow or pig for someone that didn't like the liver. I also used to look forward to one of my first meals from a fresh venison being the liver cooked with caramelized onions and bacon.

Chicken livers are very big here in the South. There are some places that make chicken livers that melt in your mouth, but more often than not, they are over cooked and dry as hell. I seldom make the chicken livers, but often buy calves liver or pork liver cut fresh by my favorite meat cutter. Not many stores cut the liver themselves any more. Most buy it shrink wrapped and frozen, but my favorite grocer here has the custom cutting department and takes pride in having the whole livers to slice fresh for the customer. Surprisingly enough, he sells a lot of it.

[Clipper]

BZ, we also used to eat a lot of pork kidneys, split open, soaked overnight in salt water, diced up and sauteed with onions and green peppers. Beef heart, boiled and pickled, or boiled and then sauteed in butter for sandwiches and there was always a ready supply of soup bones.

[bobbbiez]

Damnit! Now I'm hungry and wishing for liver.

When we take a trip to Flo's at least once a month I always order liver, onions and bacon. They do have the best and their pork steak dinners also. Both very comparable to mine. Mouth watering.

[stoney]

Gee, Clip. Don't they also have raccoon & squirrel liver down your way??

Hahahahahaha

[bobbbiez]

Actually Stoney, I think possum liver is most popular in Clip's area. ;D

[Clipper]

Squirrel livers are too small and it takes too many to make a good sized "batch'. The racoons have rabies, so that is out of the question. I will have to look into the possum possibilities. We have a huge Possum that comes at night to drink from our garden pond. The motion light kicks on, and I look out the kitchen window, and she is drinking from the pond. The light doesn't seem to scare her off. I opened the door once to take a picture, and she just hissed at me and waddled across the yard and up a tree.

BZ, pork steak from Flo's is a gourmet delight, haha. I actually like pork steak as well or better than pork chops. Must be from our meager grocery budget growing up. Marinated and done on the grill as you do them makes them as good as any old dry filet mignon that one could cook. Something wrong with a cut of meat that costs 8 or 9 bucks and you have to wrap it in bacon to make it moist enough to eat. LOL

Everything I have ever had at Flo's is wonderful. The guy across the street from our camp in Verona Beach and I used to go there every Sunday for breakfast. She makes pancakes that are the size of hubcaps, and the best homefries ever if you order eggs and homefries with onions. Gotta love it, and gotta love Flo too.