So... I'm gonna tell you all something.

So... I'm gonna tell you all something.  While I AM, admittedly, a picky eater, I'm not usually a food critic.  Like, far from it.  I don't cook.  When I do I get impatient and eat my food half-done (no, I don't cook meat, EVER, so it's not a big deal).  I mean like I'll eat half-cooked noodles and rice before I'll wait if I'm really hungry.  So that should tell you something.

But growing up, every year on my birthday, I always got a red velvet cake from Evelyn's Bakery in Munford.  Damn, that was the best cake I've ever had.  But since I grew up and moved out of Munford I didn't get those cakes anymore.  I don't think I had a birthday cake for quite a few years.

But, Shaun is so sweet that when I told him I like red velvet on my birthday he went and got it.  First year it was a red velvet ice cream cake from Maggie Moo's.  So not the same as a real cake, but it was such a sweet thing to do.  I ate it and I loved it.  ❤  We've been together long enough now that I don't remember what has happened every year after that, but I do know that he bought me a red velvet from HoneyBaked Ham one year, but I hated that one.  It was frozen and you could tell.  Yuck.  And there were black crunchy things in it.  WHAT?

This year, when I found the girl at Peerless who's grandmother makes the desserts I wanted a chess cake because I knew it was awesome.  The girl said that she made great red velvet, too, and I believed her.  But I don't like it.  It just tastes like regular cake with cream cheese icing and food coloring.  It is not moist, or dark, or rich.  I feel bad because Shaun paid for it, but I just don't like it and I'm not gonna eat it.  I'm sure that my family will, but I just feel so shitty for that.  🙁  And really ungrateful.  🙁  I feel like a horrible person over this red velvet cake stuff.  🙁

I guess I am really picky about red velvet.  🙁  I called Evelyn's Bakery and left a message.  Maybe they are still in business.  If so, I am getting a cake from them, for realz.  If I can have it by Thanksgiving, then I will be happy.  The only other really good red velvet I had was one that my friend Nancy made.  She sent me the recipe, but I don't really want to have to make my own cake.  I hate cooking.  Maybe I can find someone to do it for me.  Is it wrong to take a recipe to a bakery and ask them to make something from it?