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.