Don’t forget to check your calendar, you crazy person, you! December 22 is National Date Nut Bread Day. (Apparently, the closer we get to the end, the more of a stretch these puns become).
And also, the less original the holidays, as we already celebrated National Date Nut Bread Day on September 8. I warned y’all back then we had another duplicate holiday! There were no alternatives back then, and there are none today. So we’ll add date nut bread to the list of duplicate food holidays.
With our challenge nearly over, I’m planning a special post afterwards, and would love to answer any questions you might have! The ones we most often hear are,
- What was the worst food you tried?
- What was the best?
- Which was the most difficult challenge to celebrate?
I’ll be answering all those, of course, but if you’ve got more – fire away! I’m also interested in knowing whether you’d see any value in turning this year’s challenge into a book. It would be a simple self-published Kindle edition costing no more than $2.99 or so. Be honest – my feelings won’t be hurt if you say no! I just need to know if it’s worth the effort to format and try selling. I also have friends in the app business (shout out to Heidi and Ross) who have approached us about making a National Food Holidays app based on the blog. It sounds like an intriguing idea to me. Thoughts?
But onto more important matters. That is, the date nut bread. Even though the holiday was a duplicate, the recipe was not. This time Tara tried a new recipe. It calls for soaking the dates in orange liqueur. ‘Nuff said!
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Eat My Words 
What food surprised you the most (in taste, and in what it actually was)?
Have any new foods youve been exposed to incorporated themselves into your regular repertoire of meals/snacks?
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Excellent questions, John. I’ll definitely answer both after this is over!
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First off, I don’t think I could even take a bite of that since it has fruit and nuts…blech!!
Secondly…
If you were to do this challenge again, what would you do differently?
What advice would you give to someone who would want to try to do this challenge?
What did you learn most?
What was the cheapest challenge? Most expensive?
Did you ever take the easy way out of a challenge?
Are you tired of these questions yet?
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If nothing else, it’s better than today’s fruitcake!
Thanks for the questions. You’ve got some great ones here! We’ll answer them all in a post early next year. Once we take a few hard-earned days off from the blog, that is.
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