Be still my heart…I got to watch Dan on MSNBC last night!  He was hosting Scarborough Country for Joe.  I miss Dan Abrams & his show.  I used to e-mail him/his show.  I even had a couple e-mails read on air.  I :puffy heart: Dan.

Does your grocery stores have a salad bar?  I was thinking about this last week.  One of my weird pregnancy things is that I crave salad bar salads.  There was one chain in WA that had salad bars but it wasn’t convenient to me.  None of the stores here have salad bars anymore.  One location of the stores I shopped when we were in IL had a bar but not the other locations of the same chain.  I think only one store in my hometown has a salad bar anymore.  Are they a total thing of the past now??  With all the ready-to-eat foods in the stores now, I’d think salad bars would do good.  Mom stops at the store on the way home, picks up some bread from the bakery, an entree and then makes a big salad.  I miss salad bars!!  (I ended up taking E on a date to Ruby Tuesday.)

So plans have changed for Jim’s graduation.  They are having a reception, so I don’t have to do dinner after all.  We’ll still do one on Friday night.  Instead of shish kabobs, I’m thinking we’ll do ribs, loaded smashed potatoes, a salad and maybe some grilled corn on the cob.

And that brings me to my next question.  I’m thinking about making doughnuts one morning.  I want to do yeast doughnuts.  I’ve only made cake ones in the past.  Has anyone out there made yeast doughnuts?  With the amount of time it needs to raise…well, that puts my day starting early!  I thought about making them the night before but I really want that hot, fresh taste.  I thought about making them but cutting the frying time down a couple minutes and then finishing them in the morning.  Or I thought about making the dough and putting it in the fridge overnight.  But I’m not sure how either would do.  I’m planning to make some regular glazed ones, chocolate iced using Alton’s recipe and maybe some maple iced.  And then I’ll have nuts & maybe sprinkles too.  Yum.

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