CROISSANTS
For the last week I have been eating croissants for breakfast with salami and Swiss cheese and coffee from my new pour over travel coffee maker.
The reason for choosing croissants is purely nostalgia, pretending that I am in Paris with croissants for breakfast from Pain Pain, my favorite bakery (and the only one I know) in Montmartre.
The problem with having croissants for breakfast in Swannanoa is that croissants— excellent, flakey, delicious croissants—from Asheville’s Owl Bakery cost $5 apiece. At Pain Pain they were at the most the equivalent of $1 apiece.
But I’ve discovered that the bakery section in the huge Ingles grocery store in strip mall Swannanoa has gone European and has 12 mini croissants for $3.50. Alas, they are not crisp and flakey, like the Pain Pain or Owl croissants, but if I slice them and toast them a little they are crisp and along with Aldi salami and Swiss cheese they are close enough (sort of) to let me be feel I am back in Paris for a few minutes.
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