{"id":1699,"date":"2005-12-06T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/06\/saving-the-holidays-one-macaroon-at-a-time"},"modified":"2015-09-24T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:54:12","slug":"saving-the-holidays-one-macaroon-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangette.net\/2005\/12\/saving-the-holidays-one-macaroon-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the holidays, one macaroon at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlest.com\/archives\/2005\/12\/06\/saving_the_holidays_one_macaroon_at_a_time.php\">This week\u2019s installment of Seattlest<\/a> finds me conquering the Christmastime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donogh.com\/cooking\/holiday\/cheeseba.shtml\">cheese ball<\/a> and supplanting it with more readily <strong>edible\u2014and <em>enjoyable<\/em>\u2014homemade holiday gifts<\/strong>. Each December, I relish the chance to hole up in my kitchen and churn out dozens of delicious things to give away, and I can\u2019t help but spread the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Though there is certainly no shortage of wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domesticgoddess.ca\/entries.php?entry=10157\">holiday<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ilforno.typepad.com\/il_forno\/2005\/12\/holiday_cookie__2.html\">treats<\/a> making their way around the web, I\u2019ll be calling your attention to a few of my own favorites over the next three weeks. First on the list is <strong>a plain, simple, and delicious coconut macaroon,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5046\/497\/1600\/Dahlia_macaroons_in_red_bowl_text.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/orangette.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/Dahlia_macaroons_in_red_bowl_text.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060515023\/qid=1133849611\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/002-7503642-7804805?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\"><em>Tom\u2019s Big Dinners<\/em><\/a>, by Seattle culinary celebrity (and recent \u201cIron Chef\u201d <span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12px;\"><\/span>winner) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdouglas.com\/\">Tom Douglas<\/a>. I love a good macaroon, as <a href=\"http:\/\/orangette.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/odysseus-and-macaroons.html\">I\u2019ve already made clear<\/a>, and Douglas\u2019s is no exception. While my usual chocolate-covered rendition is rich, moist, and toothsomely dense, his is <strong>lighter than air<\/strong>, with a sweet meringue base to give it a chewy, fluffy interior and a shatteringly crisp shell. I&#8217;m hard put to say which version I prefer, but the ease\u2014and, dare I say, dirty-snowball appearance\u2014of these makes them a shoo-in for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s installment of Seattlest finds me conquering the Christmastime cheese ball and supplanting it with more readily edible\u2014and enjoyable\u2014homemade holiday gifts. Each December, I relish the chance to hole up in my kitchen and churn out dozens of delicious things to give away, and I can\u2019t help but spread the gospel. Though there is certainly no shortage of wonderful holiday treats making their way around the web, I\u2019ll be calling your attention to a few of my own favorites over the next three weeks. First on the list is a plain, simple, and delicious coconut macaroon, adapted from Tom\u2019s Big Dinners, by Seattle culinary celebrity (and recent \u201cIron Chef\u201d winner) Tom Douglas. I love a good macaroon, as I\u2019ve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saving the holidays, one macaroon at a time | Orangette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/orangette.net\/2005\/12\/saving-the-holidays-one-macaroon-at-a-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saving the holidays, one macaroon at a time | Orangette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week\u2019s installment of Seattlest finds me conquering the Christmastime cheese ball and supplanting it with more readily edible\u2014and enjoyable\u2014homemade holiday gifts. 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