It’s cold AF in Chicago. Right now it’s -9 with the windchill feels like -26. And it’s only going to get colder – gah.
Last night I was under the blankets sipping coffee, when Hannah and Jacob said “do you smell that?” No. I have no sense of smell. Which is one of the reasons I think my late husband married me – unless I heard him fart I never smelled it!
After a bit of investigation, it seemed it had to do with the furnace. Great. We replaced our furnace in 2001 – not THAT long ago in my mind. My husband used to explain house shit to me all the time. I half listened. My realization is “why would I ever have to know that?” That’s why I had my husband – well, not the only reason mind you, but that’s what he was good at – maintaining the house shit and the yard. I cooked and took care of all the house paperwork. In the near 14 years we were married my husband never opened a piece of mail. Ever.
Well turns out, that photo above is a burned out furnace motor. That is of an unusual horsepower, which Nick – best tech evah – said he didn’t have on his truck and he’d have to come back today.
Thank goodness for our wood burning stove! We got that going, turned off the furnace, buried ourselves under 4 layers of blankets and fell asleep. It was glorious – I love in the winter (well, not when it’s that cold out) to sleep under all the covers with the window open just a crack to have the cold air on my face.
I don’t know how to change the time on the thermostat, but that temp was at 6:37 am this morning when we woke up. 46!
I told Nick that I’d make him donuts when he came today with the new motor. I think he thought I was kidding. Um, I don’t kid about food!
These are super easy cake donuts – just mix, roll out and deep fry. No, I haven’t tried them in an air fryer because I don’t have one, and I haven’t tried to bake them. I put the recipe into the WW recipe builder and one donut + hole is only 4 points. #winning
I just used two biscuit cutters to cut out the donuts.
I rolled out the dough several times after punching out the donuts and got 20 donuts out of this recipe – I believe that is a 3 inch biscuit cutter.
I fried these at 375 for about a minute per side.
Once I let them drain, just tossed them in a cinnamon sugar mix.
I also made a few with a chocolate glaze – I only did the recipe builder for the cinnamon sugar ones since I was giving these away to Nick the tech. The chocolate glaze is 3 tablespoons powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder and 2 teaspoons unsweetened almond milk.
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Does it suck that I had to spend $819 on a new furnace motor? Yep.
But my roommates offered to pay for half, so that helps. And I have an unexpected day off from work today – so that’s a bonus!
So I sent Nick on his way with a bag of chocolate glazed donuts, and a bag of cinnamon sugar donuts, and well, he needed a to go cup of coffee, no? I mean, I run a full service restaurant!
Still counting my blessings. It’s all good – there are worse world problems and just a tiny bump in this road we call life.
Happy Friday my friends – make it a great day! And don’t eat like an asshole.
Love, Biz
Maybe you can share ways to not eat like an ass hole because I need serious help. I have the exercise part down solid but I am still eating too much. Share since I gained weight this month. I have 11 months left to change this. I am 55 & don’t want to be fat anymore.
I admire your attitude, Biz. I would’ve been a huge baby about the furnace! You handled it like a champ. Those donuts look yummy!
On Christmas day of 2017 our thermostat died at 2 in the morning. The temps outside that night were about the same as they are right now in Central IL, freaking cold, so it was in the 40’s in the house by morning. And we didn’t have a wood burning stove, just one small space heater in my 95 year old mom’s room. Our furnace guy Cody came out that morning as soon as I called (he said I should have called him at 2 AM and not waited) and put in a new thermostat for us. It took forever to get the house which is about 100 years old, back up to a livable warmth of 68 degrees, for me. My mom keeps her room at about 85! Thank God for good dependable furnace guys!
Your donuts look so damn good! 46 in the am is a bit too nippy for me. We just had to have our furnace serviced too. Thank goodness we did it yesterday as it was -20 at my house this morning. But that is Wisconsin for you. Have a great weekend & you know you’ll be toasty.
You are a trooper. Most would rant and rave about having to put out that kind of money. Glad you didn’t have to wait too long to get your parts replaced.
That’s really nice of you. Glad you got it fixed. I heard about the cold snap. Husband has a customer coming here from Chicago next week, and it’s going to be low of 50, high of 69 all week.
Nick is set!! You’re so fab. <3
Sounds like food is the way to go! I’m going to have to use that one when I need stuff done… 🙂
Lucky Nick, I could have came over and changed out the blower motor by the low price of your homemade bread. Yes, I really do know how to change out a blower motor, fan, capacitor, thermostat, etc. My family would hate me if they woke up and the thermostat read 46. They have a cow because I keep it at 58. That is what comforter is for if you ask me. The donuts look yummy. Sadly, I stopped at Dunkin Donuts this morning and bought an apple fritter. I’m not even a Dunkin fan but was craving a fritter. So yes, I ate like an a*& hole today. That puppy was 400 calories. Haven’t put it in to see how many points yet. But, I’ll track it and move forward. Have a great weekend and happy you will be warm and toasty. I will be baking your yummy artisan bread to warm up our house this weekend. They love it when it is cool because I do All.the.baking.
I would have made you anything Kym!! We normally keep the house at 64, which we all don’t mind at all. Sadly, the apple fritter is 16 points – and I know that because I’ve eaten them in the past – but still only 400 calories in your whole day – it’s all good!