The Littlest Sous Chef

Baby Emma is the most darling Sous Chef that ever lived! My little under-chef is so helpful in the kitchen...and by that I mean she is so helpful to play with her toys at the doorway of the kitchen!

Lately we have baked a little bit of bread (sorry no photo, but you can imagine what a loaf of bread looks like). I left my loaf pans at Mom's house, so I had to use a piece of Corningware instead of two loaf pans. That's ok--who doesn't love gigantic bread? So we had chicken sandwiches with pesto and mozzarella. Yummy!

I also tried my hand at parisian macaroons! They were fabulous! This is the recipe I used. They turned out great. I put some red food coloring in half of the batter to turn it pink. For the filling in the pink macaroons I used strawberry jam. Very delicious and a big hit! For the other half of the batter I used a concoction of various food colors to yield a grayish brown and I used a chocolate ganache for the filling. Scrumptious!

Side note: for the macaroons in this photo I ground my own almonds. When I made them again I bough ground almond flour/meal from Whole Foods. Talk about a time saver! I highly recommend buying it already ground! But, if you choose not to, it's just as yummy ground in my food processor!

To be honest I wasn't sure I'd be up to the task of something like this kind of confectionary, but I was and they were delicious! Glad I had my baby sous chef for moral support!

Happy cooking!

{MSP}