Apple Fritter for the woman...

Healthy Breakfast c/o Top Pot, originally uploaded by JE Birch.

First, let me begin by saying that I have not cooked at all this week due to a rocky start. I made a very healthy dinner on Sunday night (cue queasy stomach) of twice-baked sweet potatoes and sauteed greens. I even recorded it for posterity with a picture. But something went terribly wrong and that night, an ugly stomach virus hit. I won't disgust you with the gruesome details, but I made Corey delete the pictures from the camera and throw out the evil leftovers and here we are - no posts about food made in my kitchen.

But I still want to share with you something that I really, really miss about Seattle. We lived a block away from Top Pot Doughnuts & Coffee and just to really sweeten an already good deal, our beloved roommate Sonya worked there (and still does). This made for a lot of doughnuts in our life. A lot of deep fried, glazed, powdered or iced dough...and my life (and waistline) has never been the same. Don't get me wrong, one can find a good doughnut in Atlanta. But nothing will ever be the same again. I can look near and far but I will never find a raspberry iced chocolate cake doughnut, an apple fritter the size of my head, seasonally prepared pumpkin cake doughnuts, cinnamon sugar rings that are as fluffy as a feather pillow...Believe me, one of the first stops we're making in Seattle is Top Pot. And I will eat all...of...the...doughnuts...even if I have to pry the last chocolate-sprinkled-cake from a poor child's hand.