I'm a strawberry-rhubarb fan. Or just plain rhubarb, even.

This is the pumpkin pie I made last Thanksgiving, and it instantly became my favorite. It's like halfway between a standard pumpkin pie and a pumpkin cheesecake, and it is DIVINE.

Can you share the maple walnut pie recipe, Consuela?

OK, here's another baking question: what can I make with a lot of apples that you can eat with your hands? This cake wouldn't work so well as a bring-to-the-office item.

This is the pumpkin pie I made last Thanksgiving, and it instantly became my favorite. It's like halfway between a standard pumpkin pie and a pumpkin cheesecake, and it is DIVINE.

Oooh. Instead of canned condensed milk, you use cream cheese? YUM. The pumpkin pie recipe I make uses canned coconut milk instead of condensed milk, but I think I want to try this cream cheese one.

I wish I had management of my stocks, I'd diversify out of company stock a little. Though my company is doing well. Maybe I'll cash out that annuity that's getting 1% or so, take the penalty hit, and see what I can do on my own with it. I'll have to see if inflation is wiping out interest gains.

The pumpkin pie recipe I make uses canned coconut milk instead of condensed milk

The lactose-intolerant section of the crowd would love to hear more!

OK. I just saw an ad where a mom says "The backseat of my Subaru is where she grew up." Do people not Do It in the backseat of cars anymore??? That is NOT what they meant.

One CI recipe I read for blueberry grated an apple into some of the blueberries and pre-cooked them, b/c apples are high in pectin.

And tapioca.

Is tapioca really starchy?

It's starchy, insofar as it's a starch.

OK, here's another baking question: what can I make with a lot of apples that you can eat with your hands? This cake wouldn't work so well as a bring-to-the-office item.

You could try apple strudel. I made this a couple of weeks ago, and it came out well. [link] It could probably be finger food, in a slightly buttery, flakey way.

I have no stocks or what have you. But at least some pundits say if you have an investment portfolio you are happy with hang on to it. Even if there is a crash and it goes down to nothing it will be back up to where it was within a month or two. Whereas if you start moving stuff around you lose money long term. I am NOT a financial advisor, and in this case am passing advice along without endorsing it. Where the pundits could be wrong is if this causes another great depression, in which case the place to invest your money is highly nutritious dried food which will last for years without refrigeration. I have trouble believing the business community will let it get that bad. Hurting the poor and the middle class is one thing, but when it starts hitting their bottom line. Note that the Chambers of Commerce (for example) have kind of said "naughty, naughty" but not put their full firepower to bear. And the same is true of a bunch of other interests.