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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • South US, but in the mountains where it is much cooler. SO is vegetarian and I am an omnivore but skew vegetarian, especially at home. I leave heated things out to cool from hot to warm before putting in the fridge. About an hour, maybe 2 when I am being forgetful. Anything over that is taking risk. I’ve had a few nasty bouts of food poisoning before so I skew on the safe side.

    My mom on the other hand grew up very differently. Lives by the beach in a much warmer more humid climate. She’ll leave moist dump cakes unrefrigerated for days. She’s more homeopathic than me, says the spices have been used for ages to preserve food. She’s not wrong, but you have to throw in a lot more cinnamon than what our Americanized palate is accustomed to. We are very careful about what we eat when we visit, and even then, small bites to try first.








    • cut off the top and bottom
    • on the bottom, look for the pith lines, usually 5 of them. Cut down from there all the way to the bottom, so that you have 5 slices. Remember your affirmations, you don’t have to be perfect even if everyone wants you to be. If you’re a pro you can not cut all the way through to the top and simply starfish it out
    • Take a slice and a wooden spoon. Beat the ever living daylights out of the back of the slice, the delicious rubies will go flying everywhere…hopefully into the bowl you put underneath where you’re thwacking. Or, if you don’t have an anger management disorder, just tap the backs gently, ymmv.

  • Here’s what I think I know, some may be wrong:

    • It’s in the land of the Stans
    • It has steppes, high mountains and high mountain deserts
    • it has a bit of the Fergana valley, one of the fertile and most contentious valleys in the world
    • the president is a dictator, but not as bad as Uzbekistan
    • y’all make a giant dish that you all share and scoop with your hands
    • you have a fermented sheep or goat milk drink
    • you’re on the Silk Road and had one of the most populated cities in the world at one point
    • some if the Turkic people moved to Turkey and Hungary, which is why those countries exist
    • you really weren’t organized as a country before the USSR rolled in, more of loose group of regional leaders (I hate the term warlord)
    • y’all are known for your horses