My dearest friend since high school, Kurchta Harding, is in hospice care. I knew she was sick before. Her wife Faith has been keeping a journal for friends and family to read. It’s that I just learned she was moved to hospice and I’m incredibly sad.
Fantasy Update
I know you’ve all been dying to know how my fantasy football team is doing. As we enter week 14 I’m still in first place. And unless all my players fall on their faces today, I’m likely to still be in first place tomorrow. Bwahahahahahahahaha
Rum Cake
I made a white rum cake with black-strap rum glaze. The glaze is so delicious I could just eat it with a spoon.
Recipe here: www.tasteofcuba.com/bacardirumcake.html
Changes: (1) No nuts, (2) 1 cup white Cruzan rum in the cake (no water), (3) Black strap Cruzan rum in the glaze
Pumpkin Monkey Bread
I made a cinnamon pumpkin pull-apart “bread”. It’s sort of like a coffee cake really, and delicious.
I started with the recipe here: www.thelawstudentswife.com/2013/10/pumpkin-pull-apart-bread/
Changes: (1) Tripled the amount of cinnamon called for. (2) I mixed the butter with the sugar and cinnamon topping and made it like a streusel or coffee cake topping. Then rolled balls of dough in it and filled the pan. Added the remaining topping at the end.
Next time I would try a larger pan for sure. Maybe less sugar in the topping. Also want to try a variant with apple sauce.
So Handsome
