Boozy Fruit

some friends call it Rumtopf, the Joy calls it Tutti Fruiti and down at the chicken ranch...well we call it Boozy Fruit. You take some rum and some brandy and bang it in a crock pot. About a quart all together but please believe me when I tell you that measurements are nothing to do with this particular recipe...

to start this season of fruit - I put in red currents and cherries with the pits taken out with the handy olive pitter...

then bang in a bunch of sugar - I put in a couple of cups but again it really doesn't matter.

then I stir it up and put in the back of the fridge. In the next month or so, I will add wild blueberries, the last of the strawberries, some peaches perhaps or almost anything from the market that looks yummy. I won't add raspberries or blackberries - too woody, pears - too soft or anything that doesn't grow around here - too ornery. If it looks to need more booze - I add about 1/4 cup and some sugar with each fruit addition.

Long about winter solstice we start ladeling it on the homemade icecream or if the kids, dog, chickens, or man are making me crazy I've been known to siphon off a bit and sip on it in my office with the door closed. hmmm....

update - writing life

this is an upside down pear cake - recipe later...

51,010 words! that's where I'm at and I'll be there until tomorrow - wednesday - my regular writing day. Which means that I'm steady at 1,000 or more a day. goody for me.

I have to do some cleaning tomorrow. Before writing. The kids have gone to their ma's and we're going to whoop-de-doo this evening or maybe in the morning but then man oh man the dust is going to fly. It is rugged around here!
oh recipe break:
take as many smoked pork chops as you have people to feed plus one or two - preferably from a butcher or farmer you know. Put a nut of real butter in the fry pan and get it sizzling. Add a thinly sliced onion and when it gets nice and soft but not brown throw in the pork chops. On top of them put some real marmalade that you get from your best friend or other reliable source. My best friend makes her marmalade dark and with long slices of orange. Yummy! So put some on the top of each chop - flip them and put some more on the other side. Then put some orange juice in the pan and put the whole works in the oven at 375. cook for bit - not too long because really smoked pork chops are pretty much ready to go. Serve with baked sweet potatoes and yukon golds, some greens cooked and buttered and some Australian Chardonay. ah...

I'll put in the upside down pear cake in a post coming soon to you, dear reader!