Here are things that I made yesterday: fried rice with lettuce & black beans; chocolate macarons; sablée cookies. I’m so happy to try this cranberry cookies by Panipop-san. (Panipopo-san’s blog is right here) I actually baked this right after Christmas, but I was too tired to take pictures of them and I needed to find out the portion I liked. The recipe calls for 30-40 pieces, but I could make only 20 of them even though I doubled the original recipe. So, I tripled this time, and yes, I had 44 pieces! Since I converted grams to ounces or cups, I also wanted to make sure the baking time. I know it all depends on the ovens and it took 17-18 minutes to have desired color and texture. After baking, I realized that I forgot to add lemon peel. Chocolate macorns’ recipe is adapted from “French Chocolate Macaron Recipe” by David Lebovitz. This mcaron was unsuccessful. I was careful about the size and filling: smaller size and different and more reliable cream frosting. The size looked almost perfect, but I didn’t think about the baking time, which was much shorter than I thought: It took only 6-7 minutes. I overbaked nearly 40 macarons and only a dozen survived (that was the last pan). I was so disappointed when I tasted those unsuccessful ones. The taste and texture will change next day or two (usually and hopefully), so I guess I will expect that.
Trying new recipe is very exciting and fun, but I want to taste them, especially if I want to take them to someone. I know I don’t have to taste them, but I get so nervous if I don’t do it. So, this is my huge and critical issue as a dieter. This issue is not actually new; I felt same way a couple of years ago. At the time, I baked something almost every day and my pastries were sent to the freezer, because no one wanted to eat! A.A. is not a big fun of sweets (he loves candies, that’s about it.) and I was satisfied with just baking and didn’t want to eat much. Those pastries were frozen for a few months and sadly sent to the trash can. I don’t want to repeat such thing, so I have to find a solution.
Day 263: Sunday
- Breakfast: banana, dried dates (5 pieces=about 100 cal), dried cranberries (1T) with 100-cal yogurt & a little bit of milk
- Lunch: two pieces of leftover macarons; 4 pieces of cookies (to taste); a piece of Chicken & Artichoke pizza from Papa Murphy’s
- Dinner: skipped.. (but, I ate macarons to taste..)
Day 264: Monday
- Breakfast: banana, dried dates (5 pieces=about 100 cal), dried cranberries (1T) with 100-cal yogurt & a little bit of milk; two cookies
- Lunch: harusame noodles with seaweed, egg & napa cabbage
- Dinner: skipped
