{"id":527,"date":"2014-05-19T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2014-05-19T13:43:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:43:26","slug":"spring-colored-macarons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"spring-colored macarons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"spring-colored macarons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/13946939840\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"spring-colored macarons\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2918\/13946939840_b8bf65306d_z.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a>A friend and favorite coworker of mine has recently moved on to other endeavors, and as I did <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=234\" target=\"_blank\">the last time<\/a> this happened, I took requests for her farewell treat. She had two: something with saffron, and blue, speckled, bird&#8217;s-egg macarons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"bird-egg-spotted macarons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/13946957758\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"bird-egg-spotted macarons\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7355\/13946957758_654960d6ce_z.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>The bird&#8217;s-egg treatment was inspired by a newspaper article featuring coconut-laden macarons, and while I didn&#8217;t follow the recipe or present them on a cutesy faux-nest of spanish moss, I think I nailed the dark brown speckles. I used my <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=123\" target=\"_blank\">standard recipe<\/a> and flavored these with the seeds scraped from a single vanilla bean. The saffron macarons got a heaping 1\/8th of a teaspoon of saffron ground up with their dry ingredients, and the green tea batch was made with a tablespoon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;keywords=matcha&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;qid=1400530069&amp;rh=n%3A16310101%2Ck%3Amatcha&amp;rnid=2941120011&amp;tag=childerhouse-20\" target=\"_blank\">matcha<\/a>. They were a perfect send-off for a lovely lady.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been spending my time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140045295\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0140045295&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=childerhouse-20\" target=\"_blank\">reading<\/a> in the backyard, enjoying the impossibly short flowering period of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BFsi4a3N1ww\" target=\"_blank\">favorite<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honeysuckle\" target=\"_blank\">blossom<\/a>, and soaking up every last second of spring, but I&#8217;ll be back with more soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and favorite coworker of mine has recently moved on to other endeavors, and as I did the last time this happened, I took requests for her farewell treat. 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