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What’s kept us going every Wednesday for the last however many years is the time-honored Reader tradition of “donut duty”–a once rigorously administrated system in which two people are deputized each week to bring in fuel for the final sprint. That means a lot of doughnuts, coffee cake, and bagels, sure. (And a lot of spiking blood sugar around noon.) But it’s also meant, variously, quiche, salami and cheese, Jenni-O brown ‘n’ serve sausage, desultory boxes of dry cereal and jugs of milk, peanut butter and jelly, fruit salad, Hello Kitty-imprinted waffles, homemade muesli (complete with an informational handout explaining its Swiss provenance), hotly debated Vietnamese pastries, and some weirdly ubiquitous apple bread.
Over the weekend she sent us the recipe in an e-mail headed “YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Tomato-Cheddar Pie YUMMY.”
Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
