Food Review: FROST Donut
Now I rarely, almost never, eat donuts. I try to eat right from the beginning of the day, not start my day off on the wrong foot. So it had been a while since I had a donut. Because I rarely have donuts, I figured I would go all out and only try the best out there.
I had heard a lot about the maple-bacon bar from Voodoo donuts in Portland. Most of the attention from Food Network shows from Guy Fieri or Unwrapped. So when I heard that Seattle had a similar but cleaner style donut shop, I had to try it! FROST Donuts in Mill Creek's new shopping centre. My mouth was salivating from the moment I walked in. Literally, my eyes were glazed over (pun intended). Now I never buy anything without a deal so using Groupon, I bought a $6 coupon for FROST Donuts a couple months back.
Only until now have I fully experienced the glory that is FROST Donuts. My friend Shawn & I made the trek up to Mill Creek. It was a clean, small shop. I showed the lady our coupon and she said we could choose from 3 tags, one for $0.99, $1.59, $1.89. We had the Mix and Match coupon so we could get any of the donuts. I was in food heaven! There were soo many options there it was unbelievable. Probably 30 choices but we had a dozen deal. The first donut that caught my eye was the Butterfinger™ Blast. A round chocolate topped donut with Butterfinger toppings. We got one of those and then Shawn wanted a Cinnamon Crawler. After that, I chose the rest. Only after the fact did Shawn point out that I had selected almost exclusively all the purple tags, which were the premium $1.89 donuts. Ooops. So pretty much $24 worth of donuts for $6.
Here are the donuts we got:
- Butterfinger Blast
- Cinnamon Crawler
- Caramel Apple Fritter
- Autumn Pumpkin Spice
- Aztec Chocolate
- Blueberry Bismarck
- Chocolate Caramel Turtle
- Glazed Cinnamon Twist
- Maple Cinnamon Twist
- Marcona Almond & Tart Cherry Bismarck
- Salted Caramel
- White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle
As you can see, they ran out of the maple-bacon bar. But we did fill up on some tasty delights. The Butterfinger Blast is soft, moist, and melt in your mouth deliciousness. The Blueberry Bismarck was sweet but not overpowering. The Chocolate Caramel Turtle has walnuts covered with caramel and chocolate frosting, so sweet it gives Cadbury eggs a run for its money.There were two old fashioned style donuts: the salted caramel and the white chocolate raspberry. The salted caramel one was delicious. The white raspberry was kinda funky tasting. Both cinnamon twists were solid.
The Litmus Test: Was trying all of those donuts worth the one week of working out? I don't know if it was THAT good but it was definitely worth a couple days in the gym. FROST is worth it for one or two donuts, not the whole window casing. Until then, I will have to conquer the maple-bacon bar some other time. At the rate I eat donuts, most likely in 2012. Now off to the gym and no more sweets until Thanksgiving Day for pumpkin pie 
Cookers vs. Non-Cookers
I spoke yesterday about what it meant to cook and what cooking was NOT.
The reason I wrote on this particular subject was not to say I want someone that just cooks. There are underlying factors why a guy says: 'We want someone that can cook'.
Lets examine what a cooker and a non-cooker do to 'prepare' for dinner.
A cooker gathers, cleans, cuts, and prepares a recipe for dinner. The non-cooker buys a frozen, canned, or packaged meal to heat up.
A cooker tastes her food and adds spices as needed and desired. The non-cooker takes the meal out of the oven or microwave, touches it to measure temperature, then places it on the dinner table.
A cooker plans meals in advance thus making proper purchases. The non-cooker strolls down the aisle and drops items that look good into the cart.
A cooker is creative. A cook fuses flavors out of ingredients to make a deliciously, harmonious dish. A non-cooker does not really have the option for that creativity. Although you can be a bad cook...
A cooker is patient, they take time. A non-cooker probably is a non-cooker because of time, convenience, and cost.
Surprisingly, if you plan accordingly, cooking does not have to take a lot of time. You think Oh Gosh preparing, cutting, making, then baking/grilling/sauteing! That will take 2 hrs!! But if you manage it correctly, you can do far more stuff while things are bakings, while things are boiling, you get the drill.
Cooking is not a prerequisite to marriage. When guys say 'we want a woman that can cook', we are valuing the underlying principles at work when someone DOES cook. We want a hard working, quick on your feet, prepared, patient, & creative person; rather than a quick, easy, 2 minute person.
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You hear it all the time from men: We want a woman that can cook.
But what does that mean? Are all men lazy, self-centered pigs who want a gourmet meal everyday when they come home from work? What is cooking? What defines being a 'woman that can cook'?
Now to define cooking, let us look at what cooking is not:
- Cooking is not: throwing something in the oven or the microwave and boom, 30 minutes or 2 minutes later, you have dinner. I understand busy moms or families who pre-make dinners, BUT those who just buy a pizza or a lasagna for dinner is NOT a cook!! Sidenote: a good test is if a 5 year old kid could do it, it is NOT COOKING! There are amazing prepackaged stuff, but that is not cooking.
- Cooking is not: cup ramen, hot dogs, or mac and cheese (the blue box)
- Cooking/(Baking) is not: cakes in a box
- Cooking is not: cereal. Although I love me a bowl!
- Cooking is not: a pre-made salad.
- Cooking is not: a PB&J
- Cooking is not: buying a rotisserie chicken
Now let's look at what cooking IS:
- Cooking is: trying.
- Cooking is: knowing how to read a recipe and follow the instructions.
- Cooking is: knowing the difference between diced, minced, chopped, cubed.
- Cooking is: knowing that garlic, shallots, EVOO (olive oil), lemons, are necessities in almost every dish.
- Cooking is: nutritious (You know what goes into your food rather than the highly preserved, how-long-can-it-stay-on-the-shelf-before-rotting mega corporations abuse it)
- Cooking is: love.
Ever heard of the word scratch? Ya, start there.
The thing is we like the non-cooking things as much as the cooking things. Some people prefer one side over the other. I lean more toward the cooking side. There are guys that are totally content with a PB&J, 3% milk, and an ice cream bar. They love it.
So when you hear a guy say they want a girl that knows how to cook, it is not them asking for Giada-esque food every night. It is being comforted by the fact that delicious meals can be made and are made, from the heart. It doesn't hurt to watch and learn from the Food Network either 
My Top 10 Food Network Stars
.....but good food is good food.
- Bobby Flay - Throwdown, Grill It! - (Amazing food, Amazing personality)
- Emeril Lagasse - Emeril Live! - (Ditto but Bobby knows how to BBQ so he gets the edge. Moved to Ion so technically not FN anymore. BAM!!)
- Guy Fieri - Dinners, Drive-ins, and Dives, Guy's Big Bite - (Best shows, Best personality, the food he makes, or eats actually, is all fatty but it looks delicious!!! We need more dives in Seattle)
- Giada DeLaurentiis - Everday Italian -(I love Italian food! I am also going to admit that I watch Giada because she is SUPER pretty. Is that all I watch her show for?! Let's hope not...... although I am sure more guys watch this show for her... and her low-cut blouses..............)
- Alton Brown - Good Eats, Iron Chef - (I like to know why stuff works and I enjoy the scientific parts to health and nutrition. It also means he knows what things pair well together. However, it doesn't mean he is a good cook.)
- Rachael Ray - 30 Minute Meals - (Great personality, with no culinary experience. If you haven't heard her story, it is amazing! EVOO!!)
- Paula Dean - Paula's Home Cooking - (Good personality, she would be 3 spots higher if she took out ALL that butter! I would eat all her pies though!)
- Tyler Florence - Tyler's Ultimate - (BORING, that is all I am going to say.)
- Ina Garten - Barefoot Contessa - (Great food, like top 3 status, but no personality. This makes her second to last. She would be last but I found someone worse...)
- It is like liking somebody but you absolutely abhor their best friend and can't wait for them to leave.
- It is like winning football games but you should have lost..............all of them.....
- It is like waiting 35 minutes in line to get Molly Moon's for an ice cream..... wait it's always worth the wait...
- Sandra Lee - Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee - (part cook, part decor-er, part garbage! and the first two parts are VERY small. Maybe it is her voice! Maybe it is her hair!! Maybe it is her clothes! IDK!!!!!!!)
