The weekend dinner party went very well, food was good and everyone had a great time. There was only one hitch though - the French Macaroons!
The problem was that they kept coming out like British Macaroons - domed and with a cracked top, not the pretty smooth and disc shape rounds of unctiousness that they are supposed to be. However, after 5 attempts and some YouTube watching and remembering to weigh my egg whites (don't laugh this is ultra serious stuff!), we have success. Now all I have to do is get some powdered food colouring and then production (and hopefully many sales) can take place.
The music that inspired this French Macaroon frenzie was of course Opera - mainly italian it has to be said, but the drama seemed to match what was going on in the kitchen. Don Giovanni and La Boheme featured heavily with a bit of M.Butterfly thrown in for good measure.
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