I've always been a fruitcake fan (the conventional kind), even when we lived in California, where fruitcake is only ever used as a noun to describe a person. The first time I served my green tomato mincemeat tarts there, I think people fainted in horror. Sad, really, because I make a fine green tomato mincemeat.
But a good fruitcake, ahh, it's a lovely thing. Pair it with some aged cheddar, maybe a nice Wensleydale, and a glass of good scotch (no ice), and you have a meal Wallace and Gromit would visit you for.
cheers / sheila
Well, it's not as if you were trying to feed veggie Californians mincemeat with real minced meat, as it was originally. Can you imagine the looks you'd get.
If you bring the Wensleydale, I'll spring for the cheddar and the scotch.
I am a huge Capote fan, and I will look for this addition at our local library. My daughter just read In Cold Blood and she was as creeped out as I was when I read it twenty years ago. His work holds up.
Thanks for the recipe link.
I think that is the first bit of Capote's work I've ever read! Living in Key West we hear so much about his life (rather creepy) and very little about his work with the result that I'm afraid I've steered clear of poor Capote entirely. 10 to 1 the library will have a copy of A Christmas Memory though!
Mrs. G, thanks for stopping in. I'm a big fan of Derwad Manor. I'd think "Christmas Memory" and some chocolate fruitcake balls would be a good antidote for your daughter. "In Cold Blood", much like the silent movie version of "Phantom of the Opera", kept me for years from going to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Jennifer, I'm so glad you want to find the book at the library. I'm sure it won't disappoint. And it's a good introduction to his "The Grass Harp", which isn't creepy/too Southern Gothic, either!
I like to build a snowman as much as the next guy, but zero degrees? That is way too cold for me. Fruitcakes, indeed!
There's a reason your paradise is in Hawaii, Kris!
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