Life is Like a Box of...

Holey Donuts people.  Life is like a box of Holey Donuts… you never know what you’re going to get.

You place your order and forget the varieties you bought until they come perfectly boxed at your doorstep and brighten your day!

Need I say more?  Well yes, I should actually.  I should explain my love/hate relationship with Holey Donuts.  My first experience with Holey Donuts was back in February when the company shipped me a few boxes of their donuts to sample.  I started with their cinnamon rolls which ohh my, were love at first bite.  The fudge crumb donut was excellent as well, but some of the others in the variety pack were just ‘meh’.  Overall though, my first experience with Holey Donuts got two big thumbs up (love).

Once my stash dwindled down I thought about ordering some donuts.  That is until I went out onto their website and about died at how expensive these gems were (hate).  Once I thought about it though I started to understand why they are so expensive- handmade, perfectly boxed, small company who has to ship perishables to people all over the country.  Still though, I couldn’t justify the order.  A few weeks ago they had a special for 50% off which struck my fancy and I caved, which you can obviously see.

**Disclaimer.  For those of you who are expecting to taste the sinful, fried dough goodness that makes a regular donut oh so good… don’t expect to get that.  You’ll be disappointed.  Holey Donuts does a good job of capturing the overall taste of a donut, the textures and the satisfaction, just without the greasy oil bite.  Both Holey Donuts and real donuts have room in my life as I couldn’t ever give up the once in a while bismark donut.

Speaking of bismarks, I went with the Raspberry Vanilla Truffle donut for breakfast this morning.  Raspberry filling with an icing glaze?  Yep, that is calling my name. 

I left one out for Mike this morning, too, so I’ll let you know what we both think this evening!

Last night’s dinner was pretty epic.  After searching the freezer high to low to continue on the Kitchen Eat Up track, I decided to cook up some Tempura Chicken from Trader Joe’s.  We had previously been disappointed with one of their other frozen Asian meals (the chicken was funky) so we didn’t have very high hopes for this variety.

To bulk up the chicken I added some canned pineapple (one less can in the cupboard, whohoo!) and some frozen peas.  In order to ‘healthify’ this meal, I served my Tempura Chicken atop leftover salad from Sunday night. 

No words.  This chicken was too cool for school.  If you are ever looking for the sinful fried Asian chicken flavors with just a wee bit healthier nutritional stats, check out TJ’s Tempura Chicken!  I’m already looking forward to my leftovers for lunch. 

What is your favorite guilty pleasure Asian/Chinese food?  Cream cheese wontons and orange chicken have my vote.