Things are ... interesting ( Read more... )

Well, you can't ever learn anything without trying to do it, so today I decided to try and make Macarons. Some of the "authentic" recipes are ridiculously complicated, and there was no way I was spending half a day on the Macaronnage and Maccaroner steps, so I used Violet LeBeaux's recipe.

Let me just say how frustrating it is trying to figure ( Read more... )

First of all, I fell asleep at five in the morning, instead of staying up all night to reset my internal clock, because I couldn't get my coffee maker to work. My sister, Amber, gave me her old Gevalia maker, which is pretty gently used and very nice-looking, but requires cone-shaped filters that we didn't have ( Read more... )