{"id":380,"date":"2010-07-21T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2010-07-21T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:54:00","slug":"4th-of-july-china-and-a-holey-indulgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"4th of July, China, and a Holey Indulgence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I know, I’m tardy on the 4th of July pics. Mom and Dad came to Waco for a visit, and so did my cousin Jeremy & his girlfriend, Lauren. We had mucho fun-o. So the one above is of chicken brats, burgers and chicken breasts…all on the grill, courtesy of Matt! Tasty stuff!<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/a>My husband’s playground, Twin Rivers golf course in Waco. Trees and semi-h<\/a>ills in central Texas, who knew?? <\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve inherited my grandmother’s (Mama, mom’s mom) china cabinet. I can’t even tell you how much it means to have it in our house! We FINALLY got to unpack Dillard’s boxes and display most of our wedding china + crystal. (YES, we have more than 12 settings of crystal…NO, I am not a lush.) We have more china, but those didn’t make it into the pics, only the wine glasses! Haha But, in all seriousness, it’s pretty fun.
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Incidentally, our china looks quite a bit like my grandparents’ wedding china. <\/span><\/a>We didn’t plan<\/span><\/a> that, but my grandmother decided<\/span><\/a> that Matt & I<\/span><\/a> had good taste, based solel<\/span><\/a>y on that, of course. \ud83d\ude42 Ha.<\/span><\/a><\/a> <\/a>I think they’re classic.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
And, on a bit of a lighter, more Americans-love-fried-indulgences note, I made donuts 2 nights ago!! It was the easiest and most fun thing! These donuts (doughnuts, whatever) are a bit crisp on the outside with a cinnamon sugar topping and soft and moist when you bite in.<\/p>\n
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RIDICULOUSLY EASY DONUTS<\/span>
15 minutes, 8 donuts + 8 donut holes. Servings: 1 (4 if you share)<\/span> <\/p>\n

1 can giant biscuits<\/span>
cinnamon sugar mixture in a bowl (1 cup or so)<\/span>
2-3 cups oil (veg, olive, peanut, whatever you like)<\/span>
1\/2-1″ round cookie cutter OR top off a water bottle<\/span>
medium-sized pot<\/span>
plate lined with paper towels<\/span>
tongs<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Heat about 1 1\/2″ of oil in a pot, keeping the temp around 160 degrees. (Making it too hot will bring splattering.)<\/p>\n

2) Take each biscuit, smush it with your palm, and press cookie cutter\/bottle lid in center to make hole in donut. Do this for all biscuits.<\/p>\n

3) Frying one donut and donuthole at a time, place the pair in the pot. Use tongs to move around and flip once. Let donut reach a golden color on both sides and remove (2-3 minutes, usually). Place on plate with paper towels to blot.<\/p>\n

4) Repeat process of frying donuts; while you’re waiting for the dough to cook, dip your warm\/blotted donuts and donutholes in the cinnamon sugar, coating well.<\/p>\n

5) Eat! Eat with a tall glass of cow’s milk, vanilla soymilk, or *the American way* a Diet Coke!! Great to enjoy with another guilty pleasure, a silly mystery book. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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~Laurel~<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know, I’m tardy on the 4th of July pics. Mom and Dad came to Waco for a visit, and so did my cousin Jeremy & his girlfriend, Lauren. We had mucho fun-o. So the one above is of chicken … Continue reading →<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[59,296,295,13,293,268,292,294,264],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-4th-of-july","tag-chicken-brats","tag-china","tag-cinnamon","tag-crystal","tag-donuts","tag-doughnuts","tag-golf","tag-mama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memoirmunchies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}