We are only a few days away from winter, and it appears the weather is settling in to be colder every day.
This coming week and the week after, there will be no food orders as I take time off for a couple weekends. But I will return the weekend of January 6th-8th with our next weekly menu.
Making food was an interesting set of opposites this week in terms of the final product. On one hand, chocolate chunk grand cookies came out perfectly. On the other hand, vanilla macarons did not. If you see the picture above, you will see what I mean. What are supposed to be nice smooth beautiful macaron shells turned out to be cracked and uneven. What happened? Well, I neglected a very important step. The macaron batter was supposed to be deflated after whisking in the majority of the meringue into the blended almond meal and powdered sugar. I didn't do that and the result was not pretty. They tasted great, but did not look great at all. I even had the notes clearly written in my recipe. But somehow I didn't take the time to do it. C'est la vie. It will be stuck in my head the next time I make these, which will probably be sometime this week.
I'm getting ready to make several batches of cookies and some savory items including my savory egg salad (which will be made as sliders) this week for an important occasion. I'm excited to be doing this and will be making cookies each day of the week and the dough will be frozen until needed on this weekend for fresh baking. Plus I will be making a savory pie for someone special who has never had it before, and chicken roasted with herbs. It will be a fun week in the kitchen.
Stay warm, everyone! And have a great week!
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