Macaron Me

Sorry you're settling for a two-fer today as well. This week for some reason has been really busy - or at least from what I'm accustomed to. Yesterday's something you bought gets added to today's sweet for this photograph. I brought Robin and Dave some macarons from D & D tonight as they had me over for dinner and some help staging their house to get ready for the photographer coming tomorrow. Lemon, chocolate ganache, and pistachio - very colorful and I'll say very yummy. Oh and it was quite warm today. That made me pretty happy. I think tomorrow is supposed to hit 70 before some rain later in the day. Maybe I can finally start packing up some winter clothes...

 

Smores!

Ever since my trip to Nepal, I've been craving random baked goods (thanks to my friend Kevin whom every day pretty much would come up with a new dessert he "needed" once he returned home - fruit pies, lemon bars, brownies - you name it, he craved it). Well my one contribution was wanting Smores - maybe because we were building a fire pit as part of our project? Regardless, the thought of Smores transported me back to childhood - not that I was a big camper, but I do remember making them during my brief stint in Brownies (and apparently the Girl Scouts actually invented Smores - common knowledge? I didn't know that...)

Anyways, we finally made some last week down at my brother's - kind of the lazy way as we didn't even start a fire in the backyard fire pit but instead used the stove top. I was thinking my craving was sated, until I ran across this recipe for "Grown-up" Smores. Both cracker and marshmallow home-made? Yes please. Guess I'll have to try these out too. :-)

Yum!

Both images from Fresh New England