It is very tempting when blogging to present a picture of perfection. To fool people into thinking I have a magic touch and everything I do turns to gold, that I live in a perfectly designed house with kidlets always dressed beautifully and myself with never a hair out of place (ok everyone who knows me stop laughing now!).
I do want this blog to be inspirational and inspired but sometimes it is good to tell the truth.
Last week I had our More Than A Mama Easter Fayre I was feeling fairly confident as I had been doing fayres for a year now and I think I know what I doing.
The week before I had another fayre and had made some french macarons. Now I have a history with macarons, I think they look divine and have always wanted to have them on my stall.
This is what they should look like .
Thanks to Melena for her gorgeous pictures. (She teaches classes on how to make them.)
I have made some in the past from Nigella's Domestic Goddess and while they have been very yummy they looked blobby and cracked.
So I tried another recipe, and another and another and another etc.....and finally thought I had cracked it. I made a batch that had the 'foot' and kept their shape which was a little bit like a meringue and they didn't have the lovely glossy top but I thought I was close.
So the day before the fair I took my aged egg whites and whipped up two batches of macarons. They looked perfect on the trays I let them form a skin and put them in the oven.
After a little while I checked and they were losing their lovely colour and going brown so I took them out.
They did have lovely flat tops and a glossiness but I couldn't get them off the tray! I tried cooking another tray for longer at a lower temperature but no matter what I did they were too goey and stuck.
ARRGGHHH!
I WILL crack them one day!........(or I just may crack first!)
Anyway after that I broke a cookie topper ready for a cake.
Our internet went down for four days.
My oldest kidlet caught croup and we had to get the paramedics out and she has missed a week of school! Finally in my frazzled state I was foolishly taking a picture of a cake while the kidlets were having lunch and 'tiny k' knocked her juice over which spilled straight onto the cake!
Fortunately I managed to rescue it from disaster, and I am now starting to calm down and relax for Easter...ok yes I have also had a great big Barcadi and Coke (it's all we had in!) and some of the kidlets Easter chocolate (I will replace it).
Anyway hopefully with more time now I can post some beautiful things and fool you into imagining my 'perfect' life again.
(Look away now!)
(Look away now!)
