Powdered Donuts!!!

Monday morning, I wandered into the break room, asked Mitch, one of the engineers, how his weekend was and opened the snack closet.  The week before we had hosted some of our salesdudes for training, so we had a bounty of crap.  But this week, we weren't expecting all that much. 

Mmmm....donut!

 

You can imagine the surprise on our faces -- Mitch and I -- when we saw a vat of powdered donuts sitting in the snack closet.  Mitch dug in right away, not at all concerned that he was the first one to open the container (I'm usually too shy to open virgin packages).  He popped one in his mouth and mumbled "Mmmmm...fresh!"  Then he popped in two more.

I took one right away.  OK, I took two.  They were soooooo tasty!  I don't know what it is about grocery store powdered donuts that makes them so fantastic.   Maybe it's the way the soft, bland yellow donut interacts with the cool, soft, powdery sweetness of the sugar coating...or something.  

They were all gone by Tuesday, but everyone in the office thanked the God of the Snack Closet i.e., Linda the office manager, for the bounty!

The Ulterior Motives Behind My Croissants Purchase

I bought croissants for the first time in a while.  I was on my way home from the grocery store when I decided that I'd stop by the local pastry shop.  The pastries they make are OK, but their croissants are pretty damned tasty.

I used to not be able to get croissants on a Saturday.  They used to make a few in the morning and then let them run out.  Presumably this was because morons were running the place.  The front-of-house was staffed by a bunch of disinterested and dopey-looking private school girls and I assume the back-of-house was staffed by similarly disinterested people.  

But things changed recently.  Now there  are these eager young'uns at the counter who are somewhat above HS age.  They may confuse chocolate croissants with almond croissants, but at least they don't have a chit-chat about what Taylor wore yesterday to the mall while you stand there waiting for them to acknowledge your existence.  

Most importantly, I was able to secure four croissants, two chocolate croissants and two cheese danishes on a Saturday.  I also bought a caramel donut, which was a "new feature".  It was an impulse buy.  They had samples and a zillion of them on the counter, calling to me.  

Anyways.  I had the donut and half a chocolate croissant with espresso, made with my home Bialetti.  That was a fucking tasty donut!  The dough was soft, but not mushy and because it wasn't super-sweet, it countered the oozy sweet caramel insides.  It took a lot of willpower not to go back and buy a dozen of them.

Now, you might wonder how two adults and a small toddler can eat through all that flaky pastry.  Well, the answer is that I deliberately bought too many croissants so that they'll go stale and I can make Nigella's croissant pudding.   OK, I make a variation on it that doesn't involve cooking sugar (instead I just add maple syrup, because maple syrup is awesome and I live in Canada and I can get it all the time). But I'm looking forward to that in a day or two, once the croissants are nice'n'stale.