It's Thursday. The weekend is in sight and the blissful feeling I get when I think about sleeping in on Saturday morning is enough juice to get me through these last two days of work. I'm looking forward to a weekend of good food, friends and the fresh Canadian Rockies air.
A couple weeks ago, while cruising through my favorite food blogs, I happened across a recipe for baked doughnuts. Intrigued, I investigated a little further and was promised that, if I could make pizza dough, I had doughnuts in the bag. I was all excited to try the recipe, when it hit me that making doughnuts while on a cleanse was probably the worst punishment I could do to myself. This didn't stop me from tucking the recipe in my mental "to try" box, with plans to create these treats later. And that's exactly what I did last night. I made doughnuts, missing centers and all. What a delightful experience from a challenge perspective. First, the dough was much heavier than pizza dough and secondly, this dough had eggs in it, which my go-to recipe for pizza dough doesn't. As the dough sat rather lump like on my stove, I was more than certain that I had a failed attempt. But, as the saying goes "a watched pot never boils"- a watched dough never rises. Maybe I shouldn't have been so hasty to doubt the wonders of yeast and a little heat, because on my counter sit 15 (slightly misshaped) doughnuts.
As for my D'ode:
Dear slightly warm, sugary doughnut,
You make me happy. You make others smile with delight and you have so many fewer calories than your fried cousins. For this reason alone, I will make you again, as I know you won't let me down. For in this life, you need fail safe friends that never leave you or cause you to doubt yourself. I can see our friendship blossoming. We will be BFF's.
Love,
Julie
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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