Christmas Eve Cake - Last Addition

So since tryptophan didn't make you nappish, and isn't to blame for your couchpotato stance. Get up. Go to the store. Buy the big can or jar of pineapple chunks, in juice if you please. Better grab a bag of sugar while you are there. Tell the cashier that you are making a fruit bomb (its kinda true).

Get out the big jar with the fruit and sugar syrup with the apricots and peaches floating in it. Give the mix a good stir.

Now, add approximately 2 to 3 cups of sugar, the whole thing of pineapple chunks along with the juice. See our artsy photographs.



Stir it all up again and loosely cover and back to the fridge it goes. Now you really need to be stirring this every day. And stop eating all the fruit, its like you are a kid, for Hestia's sake.

Now you have 25 days to get ready to bake the best Christmas cake ever. We will give you a shopping list in about a week for the final preparations.

 

How to order at Chipotle!

This guy nails it! 

"When you walk into Chipotle, don’t look ashamed or frightened. You’re eating some righteous food, so own up to it. Stride purposely to the first stop at the Chipotle station and in a commanding voice say: “I’ll have a burrito with black beans and steak.”....

....if you've impressed the manager so much that he says “That’s a big fuckin’ Burrito” as you’re paying, then not only have you done your job well, but I’d like to go out to lunch with you. It was the proudest day of my life."

Link

Dilbert wears gloves while cutting Jalapenos. Must read LOL.

Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) on cutting Jalapeno peppers:

"A few minutes passed, and I felt a tingle in my left hand - the one that directly handled the peppers. The tingle turned into a warm sensation, and the warmth turned into...well, this will take some explaining.

Imagine turning a broom upside down, so the pointy bristles are facing up. You take your hand, palm facing down, and bounce it on the pointy bristles. Can you imagine how uncomfortable that feels on your hand? Okay, good.

Now imagine that a giant troll sees you playing with the broom. He snatches it out of your hand, chews the handle into a point and shoves it so far up your ass that you can taste it. Then he uses you like a huge flyswatter to kill a nest of porcupines that are living in his salt mine. My hand hurt like that."

Story here

Study finds sight of meat makes men less aggresive!

Beware the vegetarians!

Source

EGG NOG Time

We noted today that in our local food market and money exchange that the counters in the cold storage have once again been graced by little cartons of Egg Nog. This is always a sign of good cooking, fat duds in red and private moments under the mistletoe. All good things in our book. Well. We really just like to laugh at the dudes in red.

So get out there and buy up the first consignment of winter packaged up in little waxed cardboard boxes. If you happen to see egg nog in a glass jar, buy two. Just don't look at the price. Trust us.

And don't forget the fresh nutmeg.

Melting Chocolate

We are chocolate snobs. Deal with it. What we didn't know was that we could be chocolate MELTING snobs as well. Check this beauty out on page 13 of La Cucina Italiana, the November issue or here at Peyrano's site. Sadly we may have to make do with this 

Vintage Pyrex 

or whichever one of these we can manage to win the auction on. 

Enjoy

Apricot Time! Christmas Eve Cake Step II

Okay all you Christmas Eve Cake Folk. You too Solid Waste Girl. I know people have been asking what that big thing of goo is in the Fridge, just hit them with a wooden spoon and tell them they will thank you later. Okay, take the covered but not sealed container of fruit and syrup out. You will need a can or so of apricots, and a dose of Apricot Nectar, and some sugar.

Open the apricots and cut them into bite size bits, add them to the mix, pour in the nectar.

Pour some sugar on it, about 2-3 cups and stir it all up.  You should have a HEAVY sugar syrup with fruit floating in it at different levels.

Now we are a third of the way, besides you have been at this too long now to give up. And the cake is rockin good.

Enjoy.