All 'feet' and no head ....

Recently, at a friend's party, I was asked about my food blog and the dishes I put up here. And, I nonchalantly replied "Oh! you know, a little of this and a little of that and I work my little magic", blah blah to that effect. Even as I was saying that, a small voice inside me was saying that I was going to pay for my over-confidence. And,I got it in full measure!

Splat on my face when I tried to make the incredibly delicate and for that reason elitist french Macaron. Macarons as I learnt are temperamental to put it mildly. Everything has to work right for them to bloom; the weather, your mood and well, their mood!

It all started off well. My meringue looked perfect and the almond meal, nice and dry, albeit too sweet. And then, it went downhill! I know what I did wrong; I over mixed the almond meal into the meringue. DUH!

So my macaron mixture was runny to point that when I piped them onto the baking sheet into little rounds, they decided they wanted to socialise with each other and become homogeneous! Well.. as you can guess, I was dismayed to say the least. There can't be much upside from here after all.

Interestingly, almost all of them developed nice feet but, as my title says, were completely broken elsewhere. Out of a batch of 30, I got ONE perfect little bugger!!

Anyway, lesson learnt... I am going to keep trying till I get them right. And, if all self-attempts fail, I am going to get professional help. Macarons will be made, and pretty ones at that, in my kitchen! I give you my word!