Calamity Shazaam in the Kitchen

Everything I eat in a box to the left. Click on the link on the left for pictures of the phood I phoootograph.

Ever since I read Laurie Colwins passage on Black Cake, I have been slightly obsessed. I love fruit cake - not the crappy dry kind with the burning awful cheap liquor taste and the frightening bits of bright green and red candies studded throughout But I will eat almost every other kind of cake/fruit/alcohol combination. I had lovely fruited tea loaf in Waterford, white fruitcake from Texas, rum cake in Barbados, fig cake from Croatia, if it's fruit and alcohol bound in batter, I will try it. So the idea of a gorgeous black damp rummy fruity cake made me both drool and then want to read every recipe Colwin put on paper. This past Christmas I started my fruit in November. I made one gi-normous 10 pound cake(12" round) that disappeared in about one minute. And about 6 little loaves, 5 of which disappeared equally quickly. I kept one to see how it age.s I've already started my fruit for Christmas 2007. I am so excited

Ok, so my last post was back in May. Whoops! But in all honesty I barely cook in the summer. Too hot! Now suddenly summer seems to be gone and I am feeling like cooking again!