Sylvia's Scenario

Another recipe I need to share from Memorial Day weekend are the donuts I made for breakfast on Sunday morning. This was an experiment because I've never made homemade donuts and I thought this recipe would be interesting because you can also use the dough for brioche rolls or bread. I got the recipe from the blog hummingbird high where she used the dough - which by the way, only took about 15 minutes to make - to cut into donuts instead of putting it into the usual bread loaf pan. I love brioche, too. It's the only kind of bread they serve at one of our favorite restaurants in Seattle, the Skillet Diner . They use brioche for their hamburger buns, sandwich bread, french toast, etc. This donut recipe is perfect using brioche because it is subtly flavored with honey and produces a wonderful, buttery crumb when fried. It's everything a donut should be - light, fluffy and airy.  Brioche is not as sweet as the usual donuts so getting the right topping on it was a ...

I just returned from another weekend in Seattle and for the first time, I actually went to a Top Pot Doughnut shop.  I've had their doughnuts before because they serve them at Starbuck's and I've seen their shops in Seattle when I visit because there is now one right across the street from our old house in Wedgwood.   Now, our daughter, lives in another old neighborhood of mine on Capitol Hill and right around the corner from her house is a Top Pot. There were not eateries like this in my old neighborhoods when I lived in Seattle.  And our daughter literally lives steps away from my old house on Capitol Hill where I lived when I was her age.  There are so many more luxuries and temptations lurking around the corner in Seattle neighborhoods more so than when I lived there but I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.  Being that I'm one that mostly gives in to temptation, it's probably a good thing they didn't exist when I lived there. ...