candy corn – Rainy Saturday Creative

Apple Cake

My local library has a cookbook club. They used to meet evenings and I had only been to one before they switched to days when I was at work and couldn’t go. As luck would have it I was off work yesterday and they were having a cookbook club meeting. The theme was apples, so I made apple cake. I had made one from a community cookbook long ago. I no longer remember which one, so I looked online. I found this recipe. https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/fresh-apple-cake/

I used 5 apples instead of 6. I first put together the wet ingredients, then grated the apples and put them in the batter. It doesn’t say to sift the dry ingredients but I did anyway. This recipe is so easy. The hardest part is grating the apples and even that isn’t hard. The recipe also includes instructions for homemade caramel sauce. I just simply bought the squeeze bottle kind. This cake is so moist and delicious it doesn’t really need the added caramel.

Variety of apple goods at the cookbook club!

Candy corn project and other updates

I have knit a candy corn hat and made candy corn earrings. Why? I have started collecting unusual candy corns and I plan on doing a series of short videos taste testing them. I generally prefer long format videos, but the short video format is perfect for this. The videos on YouTube doing the same thing are way too long. I will probably post them to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. So far the candy corn I have is Funfetti, Nerds, Tailgate, and somewhere in my place is the Taco Truck ones. I still have yet to get a hold of the Thanksgiving Dinner one. What other ones should I try? Maybe in spring I will do some Peep stuff even though they seem to be out for all the holidays now, but I associate them with spring/Easter.

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I am a little timid about this. My preference would be to be behind the camera, but you need to see my face as I try the hot dog flavored candy corn. Should be interesting. I am looking forward to it! I hope to start posting videos no later than early October but I might start posting them sooner than that.

In general I want to start trying my hand at doing videos. I need to learn thumbnails and video editing. Most videos will likely be cooking of some sort, but where I currently live isn’t easily set up for that. May also do crafts and maybe even poetry readings. My goal is not monetization. This would be a hobby much like my knitting. Something fun and different outside of work hours. What things do you want to see?

I continue to do laundry every week but haven’t hung out at the laundromat. Either I was busy with errands or I was tired and cranky and rather stayed at home during the wash and dry cycles.

Today my energy was just right for hanging out here. Bonus, it is dead quiet right now. I got dinner at one of the restaurants in the strip mall the laundromat is in. My appetite has been tepid lately, I am on a new medication, appetite suppression is a side effect. Not mad. It is unlikely I will finish those potatoes. The gravy is different and not as good this time anyway. When I am done eating I will move to the easy chair. I know the Friday night guy likes the booth and I only need it for eating. In fact, I’m done eating now. Don’t worry, zero chance I will ever be anorexic. This is probably how I should have always been eating.

The back door is open. Nice to have fresh air. There are a couple of seats back there, but I have no desire to sit back there.

I have switched the clothes to the dryer and still no one else here. Not mad! For all the crappy music they play here ELO is on right now. Might be crappy to some of you but I love them! I am also collecting weird candy corn and since Halloween started late June this year and CVS is next door, I went to check it out. I couldn’t believe they had Nerds Candy Corn! I hate CVS, but they have a special place in my heart for that! Wonder what is up with Friday guy. Hope he is okay! Maybe he was able to come earlier.

It has been over an hour and I am still the only one here! This never happens no matter when I come! I am enjoying it, but there isn’t much to report!

8 minutes before my clothes are done, another woman comes into the laundromat. The woman had never been here before so I was telling her about the one machine that is $1 whereas all the other ones are $2. Before I could show her the machine a man comes and grabs it. He must have known about it already. Oh well.

The woman and the man didn’t stick around. I got my clothes out of the dryer and left being the only one there, then leaving it as empty as when I came.