Welcome to Week 153 of Mmm Mondays, where we turn Monday woes into Monday whoas!
Header image for week 153 by Yuliya Galceva:
Last Week’s Links
Last week has 2 delicious links.
MrsK began with Reflections of Desire: Embracing the Beauty within, in a short tale about Dominance and submission.
And Barefoot finished us off with Five Skills of a Kinky (vanilla) minx, where she discusses her best assests!
You can read all those Mmm’s and more here.
Mmm Makers
Check this out while it’s still here.
Just because this section is leaving, doesn’t mean I don’t want to interview you. Know someone (or yourself) who needs a shoutout for being a Mmm Maker? Let MrsK know.
Week 153 Recommended Reads
Mmm’s on Medium
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Book of the Month
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
The husband stitch —
Inventory —
Mothers —
Especially heinous —
Real women have bodies —
Eight bites —
The resident —
Difficult at parties
I’m a few stories in and have to say I’m quite enjoying this so far. Hint: not all is at it seems.
Week 153 Recipe
Sticking to the holiday party theme, this week’s recipe is inspired by Hanukkah, which started December 7 and will end December 15th.
These doughnuts are so delicious, you’ll want to make them any time of year.
Hanukkah Doughnuts (Sufganiyot)
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 3 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup superfine sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter diced, at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 4 teaspoons Armagnac or apple brandy
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 5 cups canola oil plus more for brushing
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 3 cups strawberry jam
Instructions
- In a small microwavable bowl, warm the milk at high power to 110°F, about 1 minute. Sprinkle the yeast over the milk and let stand until foamy, about 10 minutes.
- In a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, combine the flour with the superfine sugar. Add the milk mixture, the butter, egg, Armagnac, vanilla, and salt. Knead at low speed, scraping down the side of the bowl, until the dough starts to come together, about 4 minutes. Increase the speed to medium and knead until the dough is soft and pulls away from the bowl, about 10 minutes.
- Lightly brush a large bowl with oil. Place the dough in the bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let stand in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 2 hours. Lightly brush 2 rimmed baking sheets with oil. Punch down the dough and cut in half. Roll each half into a 12-inch log. Cut each log into 12 equal pieces, roll into balls, and arrange on the prepared baking sheets, about 3 inches apart. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.
- In a medium bowl, combine the granulated sugar with the cinnamon.
- In a large saucepan, heat the 5 cups of oil over moderate heat to 325°F. Working in batches, fry the doughnuts, turning once, until golden, about 2 minutes per side. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the doughnuts as they’re done to the cinnamon sugar and toss to coat. Let cool on a rack, about 15 minutes.
- Spoon the jam into a pastry bag or small resealable plastic bag with one corner snipped. Pipe about 2 tablespoons of jam into two opposite ends of each doughnut and serve as soon as possible.
Notes
This Week’s Links
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