LOOK AT THAT FUCKING DONUT.

GO AHEAD. LOOK AT IT.

YEP. IT'S A FUCKING HUGE DONUT.

Giant silicon bakeware was pretty much the only thing that I asked for this Christmas. Last Christmas I got the giant cupcake, this Christmas I got the ginormous donut. I definitely prefer the giant donut despite my partialness to cupcakes. I used the yellow cake recipe in "Hot Damn & Hell Yeah," which has a great compilation of dirty south food - sounds like my kind of fucking cookbook. I made up a quick chocolate frosting, threw it in the microwave, and smothered it all over the stupid place. Then Gwen, Sean, and I ate it and replaced "jump on it" with "big donut."

Fuck you, Dunkin'.

I also attempted to make a tempeh rueben tonight...once you've had a radical rueben from the Chicago Diner you can't ever really top it. Since I'm a girl who only has a yellow schwinn to my name in the dead of winter, I have to alter recipes when I don't have the necessary ingredients. That meant ditch the caraway and sauerkraut and add more stuff that I actually had in the fridge. I marinated the tempeh in a mixture of olive oil, water, soy sauce, minced garlic, yellow mustard, cumin, and salt. I cooked this at 350 for about 40 minutes, put it on some toasted whole wheat bread with avocado, red onion, and a thousand island dressing i made. I love thousand island dressing. Seriously, the amount of thousand island dressing that I would be willing to eat is probably offensive.

I also planted my Chia herb garden today, which includes chives, sweet basil, and dill. Chia gave me 6 herbs and 3 pots so I had to choose only 3...WHAT THE HELL, CHIA.