A blog quickie... a blickie

I may not come up with a thousand words for this picture, but two things:

1. I am out of practice with taking self-portraits on my digital camera. (Although I am fond of this shot anyway...)

2. I tried to take a picture across Harlem Meer at Dana Discovery Center in Central Park to show you where the "Play Me, I'm Yours" piano was located, but my head is blocking it.  Well done, Allison.  Well done.

Summer may be winding down, but I have to say the summer of 2010 was a swell one.  Will just have to continue trying new things in the fall.

Oh right, here's the location of the piano... to the right of the building:

Doughnut Plant

Jason e-mailed me a couple weeks ago asking if I'd tried the jelly doughnuts at Doughnut Plant.  I'd heard of the Doughnut Plant a few years ago on TV but never checked it out.  Well, in my summer of trying new things, I put Doughnut Plant on the list.  My craving for a good jelly doughnut won out last Saturday, so I took a trip on the F train to the Lower East Side and got me some doughnuts.

I did my research on the website and on Yelp.com, and people kept mentioning how good the tres leches and creme brulee doughnuts were.  When I got in line, a couple people behind me were talking about having "foodgasms" and coming back for more.  Were these doughnuts going to live up to the hype?  I sure hoped so.  It smelled really good in that little doughnut shop.

I ordered one tres leches, one creme brulee, and one peanut butter and jelly doughnut.  It set me back $7.75.  Hmmm.

I sat on a bench outside Seward Park and tried the tres leches, which is a cake doughnut.  One bite and I was sold.  Totally worth it.  Sweet but not too sweet.  Had a creamy texture inside.   My mouth is watering recalling that doughnut.  I understand the need to describe the experience as a "foodgasm" now.

I couldn't resist trying the creme brulee immediately after.  It's a smaller doughnut, but it packs a lot of punch. And just like the real dessert, it has a caramelized sugary top and custard on the inside.  Mmmm.  Something tells me Janice would like this doughnut.  :)

After eating those two doughnuts, I didn't want to risk sugar overload, so I sealed the PB&J in my paper bag and protected it for breakfast on Sunday morning.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Doughnut

As Jason said, there is jelly in every bite.  True fact:

If they had called this shop "Doughnut Planet," I would have believed them.  These doughnuts are out of this world.