Green tea macarons
To my neighbour who snores every night, enabling me to finally understand the allusion to chainsaws.
To M who sent me a text message while dining in what is meant to be the best unagi restaurant in Tokyo. (Meanwhile, I was having a very pedestrian pasta dinner at home).
To the work-friend who readily listens when I have woes to air.
To Julia, and her obsession with macarons, begetting a how-to guide.
To Pierre Hermes, whose basic macaron recipe I use all the time.
And to all those people who have been reading and leaving comments even though I haven’t had much time to return the favour of late :
Thank you.
Tags: black sesame, macaron, matcha, petit fours
Vera said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:08 am
Perfect every time!
shaz said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:15 am
Comment leaver leaving comment – absolutely gorgeous (as usual)
Megan{Feasting on Art} said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:38 am
Your macarons are so beautiful! Mine always turn out so lumpy!
maybelles mom said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:38 am
lovely. and that must be some loud snoring if you can hear it.
Veron said,
July 13, 2009 @ 9:40 am
I adore macarons and are quite obsessed with them. Matcha is one of my favorite flavors. Gorgeous photos too!
Steph said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Your macarons look so perfect Y! I would love a matcha flavoured one right now, my absolute favourite! I only recently discovered I’m allowed to eat them, a bit scared to take the plunge and make them myself.
Anh said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:22 pm
These are so perfect! Love love them!
Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
Very cute indeed! Are they mini macarons?
Aparna said,
July 13, 2009 @ 2:56 pm
And to these beautiful macarons.
the caked crusader said,
July 13, 2009 @ 5:31 pm
Elegant, beautiful and cracking photography – amazing!
Esz said,
July 13, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
Those macarons look better than any I have ever seen in a shop or even the many photos on Flickr. Beautiful
Julia @ Mélanger said,
July 13, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
Y – you know how much I love the macaron!
These are so perfect, of course!! I can’t wait to try the PH recipe. Still can’t get over the light on these photos…just lovely!
FFichiban said,
July 13, 2009 @ 10:29 pm
Oh wow that neighbour must have some talent but nothing compared to urs of course
Howard said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:12 pm
I tried macarons and it was an epic fail, kinda like what happened on Masterchef for a few of them. They turned out flat, ended up being decent biscuits and not macarons. Your’s look every inch perfect!
tara said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
The whole series is perfection, but I particularly love the first photo – the slight topsy-turveyness of the cookies and filling is just charming. All the best to you, m’dear.
bowb said,
July 13, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
SIGHhhhhhhh.
Laura said,
July 14, 2009 @ 12:02 am
I love the delicate flavor of green tea in dessert. I had a wonderful green tea mousse cake that had red bean paste inside, it was one of the best thing I ever ate.
Next time I have extra whites I will try the italian method for macaroons, I normally make them with a french meringue.
Great photos as always.
Bummer about your neighbor, I wouldn’t be able to sleep!
Y said,
July 14, 2009 @ 12:41 am
Thank you, thank you, to everyone for the comments
Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella : Well, they were bite-sized, but not sure if I would classify them as mini.
Laura : I used to stick to the French meringue method too, but now favour the Italian method because it seems more stable and reliable.
Sophie said,
July 14, 2009 @ 2:38 am
Waw,……amazing! They look so tasty!! What a lot of hard work though!!
Excellent!
Patricia Scarpin said,
July 14, 2009 @ 3:40 am
They are lovely, just like you are!
Caitlin said,
July 14, 2009 @ 3:59 am
Oh Y, just keep things like this coming every once in a while, and I’ll forgive you anything
Just beautiful, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who makes smaller macarons. Hope everything is going well and you aren’t too frantically busy! Oh, and I loved that how-to guide, I stumbled across it a little bit ago – just wonderful!
Jen Yu said,
July 14, 2009 @ 4:15 am
Your macs are sooooo cute! I hear ya on the no time thing, but I’d rather you have time to live life the way you like it than to while it away blogging
Besides, I follow your tweets, so I always get a nice little dose of Y!!
Irene said,
July 14, 2009 @ 7:05 am
They are beautiful! Very nice of you about the snoring — I am not so charitable to my husband when his snoring shakes the walls!
clumbsycookie said,
July 14, 2009 @ 7:30 am
My neighbour also snores… They’re beautiful!
Trisha said,
July 14, 2009 @ 8:09 am
These are perfect PERFECT macarons!
Betty said,
July 14, 2009 @ 10:44 am
Aww these look gorgeous!
food librarian said,
July 14, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
Beautiful! I love all things with matcha and these look beautiful.
cakebrain said,
July 14, 2009 @ 2:21 pm
perfect macarons! Matcha is my flavour of choice. I like how the green tea colours the macarons so beautifully.
Cakelaw said,
July 14, 2009 @ 3:16 pm
These are gorgeous!
Arwen from Hoglet K said,
July 14, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
Oh dear, your neighbour must be incredibly loud! Beautiful presentation.
Ana Powell said,
July 14, 2009 @ 8:40 pm
Absolutely breath taking work.
Beautiful x
L said,
July 14, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
Lovely, you are so talented and those macaroons are perfect in every way. I thought of you the other night when KK was on masterchef and I wondered what you were up to now. I am this far {indicates with thumb and index finger 3mm apart} from joining you in the culinary world full-time. I have had it with my paper-pushing, cubicle-bound, life-sucking and spirit-sapping existence in the suited world of civil servantry and endless bureaucratic mazes. Should I do it? Is it all sweetness and light, or is it burns, carpal tunnel and crazy ego-ridden slavedriving chef bosses?
Tangled Noodle said,
July 14, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
Meandering through the ‘net and, to my delight, come across . . . macarons! These are so lovely. I’ve never made macarons, in large part because of perfect, unmatchable examples like yours; still, it’s certainly inspiring. In case I finally work up the nerve, thanks for the link to Mélanger’s how-to!
anna said,
July 15, 2009 @ 6:10 am
Those are adorable and gorgeous! I need to try a new method maybe, I was using Tartelette’s but have had no luck with it the past few times. I want my macaron mojo back
Juliana said,
July 15, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
Absolutely lovely…will have to try…great pictures as well.
Aran said,
July 15, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
beautiful Y!
cindy said,
July 16, 2009 @ 9:40 am
lovely!
cathy x. said,
July 17, 2009 @ 11:44 am
you know we love you!
Chez US said,
July 18, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
Beautifully said! Lovely post …..
~ D.
Sam@BingeNYC said,
August 12, 2009 @ 1:24 am
Gorgeous! I love the black sesame seeds.