age: 23 (Feb 07, 1989)
MEMBER SINCE: January 2011
i lost my virginity: to the same guy I'm still doing now. :D
sign: Aquarius
stats: hips for days
makes me sad: Sad people, Aspca commercials with Sarah McLachlan in the background, badly cooked steak
gets me hot: Girly boys, creamy white skin, white hair, big shoes, corsets, pearls, blue eyes
makes me happy: Pretty things, tea, cute furniture, stuff on sale, cute animals on tumblr, horseradish flavored things, dark chocolate
body mods: none yet.
crush: Scarlett Johansson
into: Interior design, architecture, art in general, E.E. Cummings poetry, gin and whiskey, loose leaf tea, meat, chocolate truffles
Made macarons. The french meringue kind. I made chocolate shells with Godiva white chocolate liqueur/raspberry puree buttercream frosting. Good stuff. They were painful has fuck to make. I cried a little. Should have made 4 dozen with the ingredients, threw so much out I got 15 cookies. The recipes were off as far as ingredients, which after looking at the book's reviews on Amazon, can be best explained by the Japanese to English translation. They looked mostly like decent macarons, but the icing was a bit off from the raspberry mixed in and was too soft and squishy when you tried to bite into them.
Luckily, overnight, the icing hardened and they now have the proper macaron bite. Too bad there's only five left.
I'll make them again, eventually. I need a better recipe with a more reliable meringue, and more patience. Also, maybe I'll be able to find almond meal. My little food processor did not want to grind the almonds to a powder consistency.
Good for a first try though.
/rant.

Luckily, overnight, the icing hardened and they now have the proper macaron bite. Too bad there's only five left.
I'll make them again, eventually. I need a better recipe with a more reliable meringue, and more patience. Also, maybe I'll be able to find almond meal. My little food processor did not want to grind the almonds to a powder consistency.
Good for a first try though.
/rant.






















kas