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The last month approaches. This was a long year. And I'm on little sleep, so I dwell on comfort food...

QotD: Coffee cake. I like a variety but some are certainly superior.

My mom makes one that she calls "cowboy coffeecake" which is fantastic. it's a family recipe, and i don't know if it is a common type or not. does anybody know this "cowboy"?
-bill

I make a mean lemon poppy cake. Sweet and zingy -- emerges from the oven in bread form.

QOTD: I didn't know there were different kinds of coffee cake. I've only had one type, and it's pretty good.

As for life - Alberta is likely going to raise the legal drinking age to 19 in January. This means me and my similarily-aged friends get screwed for a couple months until we turn 19. Dangit.

qotd: I don't remember the last time I had coffee cake. Now I want some. I voted Entemann's. We would always eat that stuff for breakfast in high school. I miss that.

HeuristicsInc wrote:My mom makes one that she calls "cowboy coffeecake" which is fantastic. it's a family recipe, and i don't know if it is a common type or not. does anybody know this "cowboy"?
-bill

I just looked up a few Cowboy Coffee Cakes recipes, out of curiosity. The common ingredient is either sour cream, sour milk or butter milk. All three are good ways to keep a cake moist. So I'm guessing its pretty moist, unlike many coffee cake recipes. Of course now Ill have to try it. I'll go the sour cream route, sour milk just sounds disgusting, plus I think Id throw up a little in my mouth if I got a whiff.

qotd: the kind that Starbucks sells...although I rarely eat coffee cake. However, I do drink a bunch of coffee. It's probably the second most consumed beverage to me next to water. Believe it or not, some form of alcohol would probably be third and maybe Coca-Cola comes in fourth. I hardly drink anything outside of that. (possibly an Orange Powerade here and there)

Hoblit wrote:qotd: the kind that Starbucks sells...although I rarely eat coffee cake. However, I do drink a bunch of coffee. It's probably the second most consumed beverage to me next to water. Believe it or not, some form of alcohol would probably be third and maybe Coca-Cola comes in fourth. I hardly drink anything outside of that. (possibly an Orange Powerade here and there)

Hey, stay on topic caffeine boy!

Starbucks is a mega-crumb. A stale Entenmann's variant.

Oh ya, the topic. I like icing on my coffee cake, so I'll take number two.

But not on the poll, I like tons of crumbs AND tons of icing.

Someone brought a bomb into the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, NH today. The SWAT team is there now. A couple hostages have been released. Thankfully, I'm more than an hour away from that mess. I'm pretty sure Paco Del Stinko is a safe distance away as well.

QotD: That dark brown crumby stuff is what makes the coffee cake, in my opinion. That layer should be almost as thick as the cake beneath it.

Coffee cake is simply cake to be served with coffee. My mom's is the best. All the kinds she makes.

Today I went back to work, and got only marginal levels of things done.

Long day, but pleased that someone I wrote some music for liked it.


QOTD: Not sure I understand the concept of comfort food - I mean I understand, but I don't understand.

when i was a kid, i loved getting a drakes coffee cake in my lunchbox.