{"id":349,"date":"2012-10-11T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2012-10-12T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T03:14:20","slug":"autumn-macarons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"autumn macarons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"mac stack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8077732672\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8323\/8077732672_715c1af884_z.jpg\" alt=\"mac stack\" width=\"576\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a>We went out of town last weekend, and when we got back our thermostat read sixty-three degrees. I put on some flannel pajamas and a thick pair of socks, and I made myself a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Having spent my last three autumns in a place where all four seasons are fully represented, I prepared myself to expect a slow transition from Texas summer to fall. While it&#8217;s not scarf weather yet, I think I can safely say we&#8217;ve passed the choking heat of summer, and sooner than I expected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In honor of cooler temperatures (and the approach of Nick&#8217;s favorite holiday), I baked a few batches of macarons. The vanilla bean cookies were made to contain the last bit of leftover frosting from <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=346\" target=\"_blank\">this project<\/a>. The chocolate and pumpkin show off some Halloween colors (although a recent bite of black sesame gelato has me thinking of ways to make that into a macaron, and it&#8217;d be perfect for Halloween, too). I filled the chocolate macarons with a whipped ganache, and the pumpkin ones with a spiced mascarpone filling, so each bite is like a little taste of pumpkin pie. I might sneak a few more from the fridge right now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went out of town last weekend, and when we got back our thermostat read sixty-three degrees. I put on some flannel pajamas and a thick pair of socks, and I made myself a cup of tea. Having spent my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}