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It is a traditional recipe - there are dark fruitcakes and light fruitcakes - this is a light fruitcake. I'm surprised you think of pound cake as "fluffy." Sponge cake or angel food cake are "fluffy" - pound cake is rich and dense with a fine crumb - the batter is full of butter and eggs. It doesn't sound like you have ever made a fruitcake.

If you want to experience a REALLY dense fruitcake, try a slice of Italian pan forte sometime. I know don't about your part of the country, but it's become trendy here in California. I've been thinking about trying my hand at it, but haven't yet.

Correct - a pound cake is made from a very dense batter. The main function of the batter in a fruitcake is to bind the fruit and nuts. Our recipe also has a fair amount of spice. Believe me, if you ate a slice of this fruitcake you would agree that it is a real fruitcake.

We spend Thanksgiving with friends in Northern California. One of them is pre-diabetic and is working very hard at maintaining a low-glycemic diet. When thinking of a potluck dish to bring, I have never really considered his special needs - I just thought if it doesn't work for his diet, he doesn't need to eat it. I've started thinking I'll be more supportive - he would do the same for me - so I'm bringing a keto-friendly side-dish - cauliflower au gratin. - made with gruyere and imported parmesan.

What sort of batter? The fruitcake recipe I have used for years is basically a pound cake with lots of dried and candied fruit added.

The booster hurt a little bit, and my shoulder is sore today. Didn't feel a thing when they did the flu shot and that shoulder is fine today.

Thanks for suggesting that. I'll be in San Antonio for 3 days and I could spend 2 more days in Austin. I'm sentimental about San Antonio - I was stationed at Fort Sam Houston when I was in the Army and have very fond memories.

It's reputed to be a Superfood - don't remember why.

I've keep pondering a visit to Austin, not for the men, but out of curiosity. I hear such good things about it. I'm going to San Antonio in January.

We bought some purple yams once - I don't remember where.

Thanks for the recipe. Yep - Velvet. Terrific series.

We like to make fruitcake for the holidays, but sometimes we make other stuff. Several years we've made Stollen. A couple years we've made Panettone. Last year we made an English Christmas cake. This year, after binge watching a Spanish series on Netflix, we're going to make a Spanish King Cake.

It must be some sort of protocol. I went to Kaiser this morning for both shots. The nurse who gave the shots asked me exactly that question. I said "no, I'm here for both." And I got both.

I really love to suck big dicks. One time, at a bathhouse, I connected with a guy who was so thick that the sides of his cock scraped against my back teeth. He really was too big.

The funeral home that took care of my mother's parents was in a small rural village in western New York and had been serving the family for decades. The funeral director was on a first name basis with both my parents. When we went to view my grandfather the day after he died, my mother didn't like the way his hair was combed. She mentioned it to the funeral director and he got a comb and brush and rearranged my grandfather's hair to her satisfaction.

They love to talk about it, but they will never do it. The amount of federal assistance they would sacrifice would instantly make them one of the world's poorest countries.

There is one who says he loves seeing me. He treated me to lunch once and comped me once, so I believe him. We were walking along Union Square once and a homeless guy told me I looked like I drove a Lambo and my guy said, "You kind of do."

That would be a bit of a conceit - thinking that the escort was wondering what had just happened.

You use that eyeroll emoji a lot don't you? I wonder what that says about you?

Unicorn may have revealed what is top of mind for him in his interactions with patients.

I have one type that I call my archetype and when I have sex with someone of my archetype it is singularly exciting and satisfying. I have lots of other types - in fact, I have so many types that it could be said that I don't have a type - except for my archetype. And I have great sex with my other types, but it isn't like sex with someone of my archetype.

And don't forget a trust. Modern estate planning almost always involves a trust and a pour over will. Settling an estate in which the assets are owned by a trust is much simpler and prevents the estate from going into probate. Additional essential docs are a health care proxy, a HIPAA authorization and a power of attorney. The power of attorney can be a durable power of attorney or it may be structured only to take effect in the event of incapacity.

You can't take yes for answer, that's what I said.

Is Wikipedia the best evidence you can find? Given your usual insistence on well-vetted information, you seem to be slumming. The Wikipedia chart did not include polymyalgia in its list of non-autoimmune diseases.

That is incorrect. It is widely accepted that polymyalgia is an autoinflammatory disease. The inflammatory response is a function of the intrinsic immune system. And polymyalgia is commonly referred to, even in peer-reviewed literature, as an autoimmune disease. It is true that it does not appear to be a disease of the adaptive immune system. So, If you are going to be persnickety and insist on a narrow definition of autoimmune as being a disease of the adaptive immune system, it is not an autoimmune disease, but you seem to be out of step with the rest of the world