Oooh, check 'em out. Macaron ice cream sandwiches. They come in four flavors - strawberry cheesecake, coconut-mango, raspberry-pistachio, and chocolate on chocolate with cocoa nibs - now available at Payard. Read all about them here: http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2013/06/payard-macaron-ice-cream-sandwiches.html. Thanks to sis for the heads up. Also pursuant to our macaron discussion my macaron rant in yesterday's blog entry,…
June 27, 2013: MasterChef screws up macarons! Let’s all chip in and get the Golden Boy something nice!
Dear Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich, and Gordon Elliot, THIS - - is a macaroon, while THIS - - is a macaron. MACAROON - MACARON - They are two strikingly different desserts in terms of taste, texture, and appearance. I can cut a fledgling home cook some slack for getting the two confused, but you…
April 10, 2012: Getting my macaron fix! Full Preview Dark Matter #4!
Everyone has their weaknesses. For some it's drugs. For others it's drink. For still others, it can be something as seemingly innocuous as surfing the internet, head massages, or shirtless albino guys. For me, it's ice cream and macarons. I've never been much of a drinker and, to be honest, golf and drugs hold equal…
March 23, 2012: Needy pugs! A beautiful partnership! And Happy Belated International Macaron Day!
"Nothing ruins a dog walk like a hole in a poopy bag." - Me, yesterday. Back when we first moved to Vancouver twelve years ago, we looked into adopting a pug from a local pug rescue, but the process proved so difficult and time-consuming that we gave up and went the breeder route instead. And it's…
February 29, 2012: Dark Matter #3 preview (1 of 6)! Bizarro Alexander M. Ruemelin! Akemi’s confectionary creation!
The third issue of my comic book, Dark Matter, hits the shelves March 12th. It's a series with action, adventure, suspense, mystery, humor, twists, turns, surprises...but you already know this because you picked up issues #1 and #2 and are now anxiously awaiting the third installment of the four part opening story arc. You're no…