Ah, Easter. All religion aside, Easter is a time for hiding colored eggs from children, standing in line to get your picture taken a big white bunny and for adults, eating a wide variety of overly sugared candy. This peep bathed in chocolate is just one of the ways that I managed to consume several pounds of sugar during the holiday weekend. Looks delicious, right? Good. Because this post is about pictures and I have a lot of them.
Greg and I began our Easter weekend in the car with a six and a half hour drive to West Virginia to visit his family. What better way to start a long car drive than by eating a supply of the best donuts in Indy before you even get on the highway?
I have been a huge fan of Taylor's Bakery ever since someone brought a box of their donuts into work one day. Greg has never been there so we had to try a wide variety of donuts...
Chocolate donut holes
Jelly-filled donut
My all-time favorite - a cake donut with the best white icing I've ever tasted
Normally I eat four of these babies throughout the course of a work day. This morning I only had one, but I also had a colorful sprinkled version.
Note the coffee in the cup holders. We needed some caffeine after the sugar rush wore off. Greg is now a fan of Taylor's as well. See for yourself.
After three hours on the road, we stopped in Columbus, Ohio for lunch at a local place in German Village.
Katzinger's is a German market/deli with a smorgasbord of sandwiches to choose from. I went with a turkey, Swiss, and coleslaw-wich, while Greg chose a pastrami-wich.
The best part about Katzinger's? The pickles. There are two big barrels of pickles that diners can help themselves to while they eat.
They also had a variety of scrumptious looking desserts on display, but I was still feeling the sugar from my donut devouration that morning. Maybe next time I'll try some Kugels.
We spent two fun, relaxing days with Greg's family and there were enough treats to take out ten sugar cane fields. Bags of jelly beans (those things are addictive!) and other fruity candy, plates of cookies and cupcakes, ice cream pie, carrot cake, and several of the standard chocolate bunnies. You name it, it was probably at Grandmother and Granddad’s house. I allowed myself to indulge and try a lot of new treats, but my teeth feel like they have been soaking in a sugar bath for awhile.
Even a building on the campus of
I hope your Easter was as enjoyable and sugar-filled as mine. Time for me to go brush my teeth again.
Oh my . . . I remember the days when I could eat like that and not gain a pound! But now, all I have to do is walk past a bakery and I gain a few!
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a nice Easter weekend, Jaime and Greg. And, the building on the campus is either a pie or a clam.....xoxoxox
Correction: You did not eat only one donut...
ReplyDeleteHmmm...thanks for the heads up on Jaime's donut count, Greg. See you on Tuesday, Jaimer. We'll have fun, fun, fun -- shopping and lunch at Panera's. I promise not to count the number of desserts you eat! Love ya!
ReplyDeleteWow, even MY teeth hurt after seeing all of that sugar! Glad you had a good time... and hopefully your sugar rush wore off and didn't give you a "hangover". :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I think the building looks like a pie or a cupcake... What do I win?
I definitely had more than one donut (and bites of Greg's supply), but only one of my FAVE kind!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, ladies, the building is an upside down pie crust! You win...another autographed spatula!