We wants the rum!

Where did all the rum go?

To explain that little inside joke to anybody who cares:

Birthday food was the bane of our cruise a couple weeks ago. Early in the week it was the birthday of one member of our party, and even though the request was made in the same timely manner as in the past, they were unable to fulfill a request for a key lime pie (though the next night they were overly proud of delivering some left-over key lime cheesecake squares from the late night snack trays).

So with that in mind several days ahead of Lani's birthday night I asked if it would be possible to get a pumpkin pie at the last dinner of the cruise. Lead waiter said he'd inquire. Next night said it wasn't a problem. Night after that again confirmed it.

Dinner night rolls around and they give us our dessert menus and I'm starting to think they just forgot about it when out comes our waiter with some kind of cake. "Pumpkin" cake. I use quotes because this was a three layer cake with something vaguely pumpkin flavored in the frosting.

It was not good.

I love a pumpkin bread recipe from Sunset magazine I make with freshly-roasted pumpkin. My mom has a great pumpkin pie recipe from James Beard. The key ingredient is cognac.

I like eggnog AND pumpkin. Pumpkin soup gets a yes from me, as does pumpkin pie (with the crust cut off), pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice lattes, putting pumpkin pie spice in my hot chocolate and... well, you get the picture! But I do agree that eggnog alone can get to be too much very quickly. The light eggnogs help with this problem, interestingly enough.

Levi
 

SFW

Just sayin...
Kinda hot...
Could be just me...
Maybe...
Maybe not...
:)

"Hi...like my armpit?"

Yours or his, Alex?

:D

His. I know I like mine, I keep them presentable.

Seriously, he looks like he's about to kiss his armpit, like Hulk Hogan kissing his biceps.