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.

The pie-cake would work pretty well in muffin tins, I bet. Sticky, but still finger food.

Seriously, is 7pm, in the dark, the time to blow leaves off the driveway? (Mostly I'm complaining because I'm trying to rewatch Supernatural and I can't find my headphones and I also have the washing machine going. CC is nice, but I'm losing out on the experience).

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.

Ooh, that sounds delicious. But I am scared of phyllo.

The pie-cake would work pretty well in muffin tins, I bet. Sticky, but still finger food.

Intriguing! Maybe I'll try that.

My favorite fruit pie is peach pie.

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!

This recipe is meant to be crustless if you make it as written (it's from a gluten-free blog, so it calls for gluten-free flour, but if you don't need it to be gluten free and you want to go the crustless route, just substitute regular flour). However, I'm fairly certain that if you leave out the flour entirely, you can just pour the filling into a pie crust. I haven't tried that, but I'd be willing to bet it works. Here's the recipe (it has gotten RAVE reviews from everyone who I've made it for): [link]

I know the best bet is to leave stocks be and let them ride out the day-to-day variations. But I suspect that annuity is losing money, what with the super low interest rate. Between that annuity and my 401K I only have a year's worth of current income anyway, so I might as well tweak it a little.

But I am scared of phyllo

I get the pre-made rolls. There are loads of sheets in each roll, so when I inevitably tear one (or maybe six) it doesn't much matter. And minor tears seem to disappear in the oven. It is a bit tedious to lay out and paint six or so sheets with butter, though.

The problem with cashing out annuities is that they usually had high up-front costs.