A couple weeks before Mother’s Day Starbucks contacted me and asked if I would be willing to host a brunch that day and serve their new Starbucks Natural Fusions coffees. I told them that sounds nice and all but that my mom lives nowhere near me so that couldn’t happen. They said they understood but I said, I do host Book Club in a couple of weeks, maybe we could do that and they liked that idea. So Starbucks sent me a box of the coffee in all three flavors: vanilla, cinnamon, and caramel and a gift card to buy some groceries. My original menu I planned went out the window when my cyst burst, but I still wanted to make one complicated thing, croissants. I made a lot of easier things on the blog now I wanted to see if I could still make croissants. I can…and then promptly remember why I never do as they take way too long. I originally was going to use the coffee in a lot of the dishes, but then remember that instant coffee is what I use mostly. I did use it in … [Read more...]