Day in the Life of an Idiot

 
Image: My amazingly accurate-looking potato candy.

No, those are not tiny potatoes. That's candy. THAT I MADE TO LOOK LIKE POTATOES*. I mean, the candy itself does have potatoes in it, but it's really mostly powdered sugar (rolled in cinnamon). 

*all caps because I need y'all to appreciate that I actually spent an inordinate amount of time (with a toothpick and a chopstick) making these appear potato-like.

I made this candy because, so long as the blizzard continues to hold off, I am planning on heading over to a friend's house to finish up a one-shot of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG. I've been a fan of the podcast for awhile, which I hesitate to recommend if only because it's a horror podcast. But I will say that I think one of the reasons it makes a good RPG is that, unlike a lot of horror stories, there are magics and talents people can have in the podcast that will keep the wolf from the door. That feels somewhat atypical of these kinds of heavy-on-the-body-horror kinds of show to me, and I really like it.

At any rate, the potatoes came about in part because I'm playing a kind of bard character (speaker, but this basically is a bard, but without music). He's a recent Irish immigrant, having fled the partition of Ireland (May 1921). So, this fits the character very nicely AND it's gluten-free, which is a requirement for one of the players. 

If you want the recipe, it's here: https://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Mom%27s-Irish-Potato-Candy/46624/


Image: a pile of very potato-looking CANDY