supplies to get for further macaron exploration

Time to do some shopping this weekend at Sur la Table :)

I need:
* a kitchen scale
* little plastic scraper
* Ateco pastry bags and a #3 tip
* powdered food color
* cooking thermameter
* maybe metal mixing bowls

Italian macaron class

For my birthday, Michael signed us up for a macaron class taught by a pastry chef in San Francisco.  We went this last weekend and, in a group of 6, finally got some formal training :)

pictures coming soon.  recipe is after the page break.  here are the results of our labor. 

The flavors were

• strawberry balsamic
• passion fruit
• yuzu
• coffee
• chocolate
• peanut butter

I'm excited to try this again and experiment with some flavors.  I have a few ideas: ginger peanut butter, lavender, earl grey, key lime, rose water.

Victorian Star Wars and other coolness

This artist has some pretty interesting things in his gallery including, but not limited to, Victorian-style drawn Star Wars characters :)  Fun.

http://gregpeltz.blogspot.com/

2 more project ideas

Wanted to write these down before I forget them.

- make my own mp3 player
- make my own little felt creatures based off my little doodles.  maybe make some for friends that are shaped after themselves.