Mmmmm, Mmmmmm, Good!

Friday the kids and I arrived home around lunchtime to find a package sitting on the ground outside our garage. The box was labeled 'perishable' and I couldn't figure out what it might be. I hadn't ordered anything perishable, but it was addressed to me.

So, I tore into the box and found a message saying 'We hope this reminds you of Switzerland. Happy 10th Anniversary. Love James and Tara.' And inside the box (amazingly, still frozen, considering it was over 100 degrees F outside!) there were two boxes of croissants!! They were from Williams Sonoma. I had heard about these croissants before...they have been featured on the 'Oprah's Favorite Things' show. She raves about them!

I made the mistake of telling the kids that they could each have one for lunch...thinking that I would pop them into the oven for 20 minutes or so, and we would have croissants. Well, that isn't how it works. It turns out that you have to let them thaw and rise for 9 hours before baking them! Oh, oh. I had Noah screaming and Bekah crying. My kids LOVE their croissants! I used to call Bekah my 'croissant baby'. She has been eating them her whole life and loving it...until we moved to the USA, that is. You cannot get a good croissant here.

When we were in Switzerland we lived right above a patisserie. We would buy croissants almost daily. Those croissants were the real deal! I remember traveling home to Canada and having Noah ask for croissants. The one I bought for him from a donut shop was promptly handed back to me with an "I don't like it". So, it is fair to say, that if these croissants were going to be eaten by my kids, they would have to be good!

The leaflet that came with the box claims that they are made by a French-born and trained pasty chef, who prepares them the traditional way.

I promised the kids that I would take them out to thaw before I went to be so that they could have them for their breakfast the next morning. That managed to appease them...I don't know how! I did as promised, and here are the pics of the kiddies with their croissants the next morning.




Kevin thinks they were "pretty close" to the same taste as the croissants we used to buy from our little patisserie. Noah and I agreed that they tasted different, but that they were delicious! Rebekah ate two all by herself....enough said.

These are by far the best thing on this side of the pond! I can see the orders to Williams Sonoma in our future. Christmas...Easter...birthdays....