Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
A Tale of Two Salts I’ll never forget the day I encountered “gourmet salt” at the store. I smirked. “GOURMET salt?” I giggled. “Who would be stupid enough to pay $10 for a container of salt, when you could pay…
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Italian vs. French Macarons To finish up the little mini study we have done on French Macarons lately, I thought I’d answer the question that several of you have asked me– what’s the difference between Italian and French Macarons (basically,…
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There is something about spring that makes me think of strawberries and French macarons. The delicate kiss of strawberry, the divine lusciousness of the cream, and the delicate crunch of the meringue shell make for a pretty perfect storm. Did…
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Well, I had a bit of a hard time deciding what to call these. Irish Macarons? TRAVESTY! These are FRENCH macarons (not macaroons), thank you very much. I think they would turn up their little French noses at being associated…
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It is no secret that I love tea. Tea is that most blissful of beverages that can, at once, calm you, give you energy, warm you, cool you, and bring a stressed, fragmented world back into focus again. There are…
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The first thing I did when I got back from my dream England vacation was make these Blue Cornflower Macarons. There are multiple reasons I did this . . . I had just gone to Paris and tasted the finest macarons…
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Yum Have you ever had a French Macaron? I mean, a REAL French macaron– not the American Coconut Macaroon. Macaron with 1 “o” is a delicate, utterly divine meringue cookie filled with your choice of filling. It is truly a…
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Yum Ahh, beautiful Macarons. Not to be confused with the “Macaroon” coconut cookie, these are light as air little meringues that have a kiss of sweetness and are, naturally and deliciously, gluten free, because they use almond flour instead of…
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Yum Even though it’s been cold, and we have been snowed under 2 feet of the evil white stuff (it only ceases to be “evil” at Christmas, and that’s long since past), there have been a few warm days, here…
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Yum Well, here we are in cold, silent January. Don’t get me wrong– there are beautiful things about winter: the crisp crunch of snow underfoot, the chilly kiss of steam curling from your coffee cup, or the silent, sterile beauty…
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