THEY HID WHAT WHERE?
Well, I don’t know if it’s exactly a ‘treasure’, the item I will talk about, but when a comment came in about mama forgetting where she stashed the Christmas presents, I thought of a funny incident that happened at papa’s ex-father-in-law’s house during the holidays once when trippa alla romana was served for dinner and the dish kept coming around and NO ONE wanted tripe and passed it on to the next person and when the head of the family, who loved it (so there was HUGE bowl of it) finally left the table, someone hid the tripe in a cabinet so as not to have to eat more…and it was forgotten!
For two months or more. Two months later, someone opened the cabinet and there was the enormous dish of…maggots!
So if you’re planning to hide the beef kibble or the roast chicken pate or the nice raw T-Bone for OUR kitty prezzies, set an alarm, haha. Mama’s mama tucked a Corsicana Fruit Cake in an out-of-the-way place because everyone gave fruitcakes for holidays and this was one too many! Mama found it in February in an unused cabinet and it could have been used as a building block for a concrete wall!
Poor fruitcake. Plus it had shrunk in its lovely decorative can to about half the size. But mama says that they were very good, fruity fruitcake (even if they weighed a gazillion pounds).
If you like fruitcake, that is.
I thinking I should hide my medicine next time in this pillowcase and it will dissolve in the wash, haha!
hahahahahahahahaha Loulou In the wash? What a good idea
Well, it WAS a good idea but the pills were pink and now papa’s underpants are PINK.
Oh LouLou, that’s just pawful. Maggots? We can’t even magine. But we’ll pass on the tripe too. Hope ya’ll find all the hidden treasures. Big hugs
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
Fruitcake…you can keep it! 🙂
Oh, thank you!
MOL ! Claire loves fruitcake, and bakes one every two years, but she didn’t know it could stay good for so long ! Purrs
Laughing our loud at the tripe fiasco!!! Well, Loulou, too bad WE weren’t around or we would have taken care of that dish in no time flat! And the fruitcake for dessert. That’s a great idea to hide the medicine – no one will have a clue where it went – and I’ll never tell.
Well, medicine is over, thank cod (every time I say that I thank the Queen Blogger for that phrase and I think it’s 15 and Meowing or Island cats and I’m embarassed to say I can’t remember! Maybe the ‘thank cod’ blogger will help fix my brain!}. But now I am freezing because our water heater went out, but where does a water heater GO? Maybe to a heavy metal concert, haha.
LOL – maybe it went to Paris to explode on the Champs Elysées! But what a horror for the anthros not to have hot water!! You and I could care less since we don’t get baths – at home anyway.
What the gilets jaunes began has been usurped by radicals and is not the way to achieve answers to legitimate demands. But yes, Macron had better wake up. Hot water is a luxury, after all, but to be in it is not so great.
Our Jan LOVES fruitcake, especially with rum, but she hasn’t had one in many years now. Years ago she had a friend whose relative sent one every year and her friend HATED fruitcake, so she saved them in a cupboard. When she learned Jan loved them, Jan inherited 3 (?). Unfortunately, the relative died so there were no more fruitcakes coming. She doesn’t understand why so many don’t like such a tasty treat.
Well, mama has a good friend who sent one every year when mama lived in the USA and it was homemade, which is REALLY good. We do have a plum pudding in the freezer for papa as he LOVES that (it’s really the hard sauce he likes and a plum pudding is only a little fruit cake, steamed) but it’s a surprise. Mama made 12 last year (!) and froze them. They are indestructible.
LouLou, I loved the picture of you hiding your meds.
A GOOD fruitcake is wonderful. And rare.
Well, home-made is really good. Plum pudding is a glorified fruit cake because mama uses only raisins and real plums that she freezes when they are in season, nuts, spices, hazlenut flour, eggs and I hate to say it but, beef suet (whatever that is), not a lot, but now she’s using a bit of olive oil and butter, but you don’t need much suet, just a half cup or so. Maybe I’ll post the recipe for fun.
Ewwww! Tripe is disgusting unless it’s the mouse kind and then its just mouse a la take away, MOL
Mrs H loves fruit cake and says it should never be heavy, or over burdened with fruit. Of course she does me a special mini cake with nip in it, and that is delicious and never lasts long enough to get stuck in a cupboard.
Purrs
ERin
Well, Mrs H will love the plum pudding recipe. It’s easy really and all you need is a big kettle in which to stem the little bowls, as mama makes small ones instead of one big one. She uses cereal bowls.