[Sca-cooks] Vegetable cake: (was Fruitcake)

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 11:31 PM 11/26/2004, you wrote:
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>Hmmm... perhaps for some people the adversion is too great.  For me it is
>asparagus, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and broccoli.
>Daniel
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>I've never heard of a fruitcake recipe that called for asparagus, 
>cauliflower, brussel sprouts and broccolli...That would be more of a 
>"vegetable cake"...again, something I've never heard of.
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>I have made a "salad cake" before.  However, that's a story in and of 
>itself.  I really enjoy baking desserts and stuff like that.  A friend of 
>mine had the "gall" to ask me to bring a salad to a pot-luck.  Well, I 
>made a regular salad, but then I HAD to make a cake and somehow persuade 
>everybody that it was really a salad.  So....
>
>Flour comes from wheat which is a grass - grass is a plant - plants = 
>vegetable.
>Chocolate comes from a bean - beans = vegetable
>Vegetable oil - c'mon, it's in the name... VEGETABLE oil
>Eggs - I don't know about you, but I've had plenty of salads that have 
>eggs in them.
>Sugar - comes from sugar cane or sugar beets - beets = vegetable
>milk - Milk is extract of grass as processed through a cow, so milk= vegetable
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>Hence, cake = salad

:-) The creativity of a cook knows no bounds, yes?

Last February, for Regina's birthday, we had a little party. She's on 
Atkins, so instead of a regular birthday cake, our friend Morwyn made a 
birthday cake in meatloaf! finely ground meatloaf, with minced olives in 
it, 'frosted' with garlic cream cheese! It looked like a carrot or spice 
cake, and was very funny- especially when she took some of it to work with 
her- when someone is expecting carrot cake, the faces they make when they 
get a mouthful of meatloaf  are pretty funny!

'Lainie
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