Last Minute Ode to Nigella Pre-Op Comfort Gluttony

I am having surgery tomorrow morning and in a few short hours i will have to (shudder) down a bottle of magnesium citrate and fast until the wee hours.
What to do ?
Make something disgracefully delicious and simple.
this was my breakfast...

My gift to you for when you find yourself in equal duress.

Nigella Lawson's Doughnut French Toast


2 eggs
1/2 cup full fat milk
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 slices from a small white loaf or 2 slices from a large white loaf, each large slice cut in half
1-ounce butter, plus a drop flavourless oil, for frying
1/4 cup sugar
Beat the eggs with the milk and vanilla in a wide shallow bowl.

Soak the bread halves in the eggy mixture for 5 minutes a side.

Heat the butter and oil in a frying pan/skillet, fry the egg-soaked bread until golden and scorched in parts on both sides.

Put the sugar onto a plate and then dredge the cooked bread until coated like a sugared doughnut. ( I used a mixture of powdered and castor sugar . Yum !)

serve with an intensely flavored strawberry jam if you favor jelly doughnuts-

It really does smell and taste like a homemade doughnut !!!

sorry , no pic . i ate it all before i could even remember i needed to photograph it.
No matter , believe me , you won't give a fig for what it looks like.
Really.

Thanks for the memories , Nigella....

See you again on the other side.