A while ago I became determined to one day make homemade croissants.  I even blogged about it, indirectly, in January of this year.  The post was actually about cooking turkey, but I mentioned croissants as my next culinary milestone.

Well, I am proud to announce that on Wednesday, August 31, that milestone was reached.

Making croissants is not difficult, merely time-consuming.  My hands also smelled of butter afterward (insert Paula Deen joke here).  There is a lot of folding of chilled dough and then waiting.

But the finished result was, well, croissants!  They looked and tasted satisfyingly croissanty!  I was not able to take a photo because we seem to have misplaced our camera.  You’ll just have to trust that this event actually occurred.

Now I have to come up with my next culinary milestone.  I’m kind of at a loss, so if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Here’s a quick Maggie update:
–7 teeth
–She’s started doing that cheesy fake smile that kids like to do for cameras
–Can briefly stand on her own
–lead poisoning
–Wait, what?

Yeah, she has lead poisoning.  She has pretty high levels for a youngster of her tender age, so she is now on an iron vitamin that makes her breath smell like blood.  The health department came out to find out where the lead is coming from, and it turns out: everywhere.  Our house is riddled with lead paint, but not in such a way as to be a danger to anyone who does not crawl around and then stick their hands in their mouth or eat crumbs/morsels off the floor.
We are going to have to have a lead abatement contractor come in this fall and take care of the problem.

But man, those croissants sure were tasty!

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