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Monday, June 29, 2009

Blueberry Desperation



Coping with blogging away from my own computer is hard, especially when my nephew's computer in Jakarta was installed with Photoshop version 6 while I am using CS2 at home. On top of that, my brother-in-law has restricted his son to use only 15 hours of internet connection. Gosh, I am kind of using a portion of his internet time... poor boy (I hope he doesn't hate me or anything like that). Anyway I only realized about this restriction when my sister revealed it to me. So I guess I have to stop blogging for a while during my holiday. And yes, there are many internet cafes out there but most don't come with Photoshop.

Or else I will do it from Singapore next week. Cross my fingers... I would miss this so much for a while. Well, all I can say is see you all again very soon!



BLUEBERRY MACARONS
Makes 10 macarons

Prepare: 1 big baking tray lined with a Silpat or parchment paper

1. Macarons

Ingredients :
- Egg white > 70 grams
- Sugar > 50 grams
- Icing sugar > 90 grams
- Ground almond > 70 grams
- Red coloring > 2-3 drops



Method :
- Combine icing sugar and ground almond. Sieve.
- Whip egg white until frothy. Add sugar and continue whipping until stiff peaks form.
- Fold almond and icing mixture gradually into the egg white in 2 additions. Add red coloring. Mix carefully with a spatula until batter is shiny and flowy like magma.
- Fill batter into piping bag tipped with a plain circular nozzle and pipe into a circle with a diameter of 3 cm. Piping makes 20 pieces.
- Leave to rest until surface of these pipings are flat and dry or when touched, it doesn't stick to our finger.
- Preheat oven at 150°C.
- Bake at 150°C for 8-10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 125°C, turn tray 180 degrees and continue baking for 8-10 minutes.
- Cool on the rack and detach from Silpat or parchment paper.



2. Blueberry Cream

Ingredients :
- Whipping cream > 50 grams
- Blueberry puree > 9 grams
- Lemon juice > 1 gram

Method :
- Beat whipping cream until it starts thickening. Add blueberry puree and lemon juice. Continue beating until stiff peaks form.



11 comments:

  1. Hi Kris, how are you ? ^_^ well..well..well, you mention about Jakarta, made me miss my country. Jakarta is my hometown, I lived there for almost 35 years. I plan to visit Jakarta this year after almost 2 years never seen my mom.

    Anyway,seem macaron become your signature dish too. The look so good, and picture so beautiful. Cross my finger, I bet you will win the competition. ^_^

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  2. Hi Fit, I am in Jakarta right now enjoying all the goodness here especially the food... I could see you are drooling now ha ha... Well, hope you have the chance to come here soon!

    The other exciting thing is I constantly eye for the local spices and props for photo shoots cause apparently many interesting stuff could be found here. Again I believe you will do just the same.

    I fell in love with macaron from the start, but could hardly call it my signature dish cause I believe there are more food bloggers who are more expert and put more effort in developing macarons than I am...

    Anything you want from Jakarta? (upss, wish we are in the same city ha ha)

    Regards
    Kris

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  3. Those are some of the most beautiful macarons I've ever seen, and I LOVE the blueberry and lemon combo ones! Plus, what great photos!!!

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  4. Your macarons are beautiful and the pictures are gorgeous! Well done!

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  5. u seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!! i knew I was right ^_^ congrats, Kris.. big applause for you.
    Btw, do you still in Jkt ? have fun, don't forget take as many pictures as you can. And go to Kampung Sampierun, trust me you will loveeeeeeeee...

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  6. Thanks Fitri! Ha ha let's do more with macarons, shall we, Fit? :-)

    So many nice props in Jakarta, my baggage was overweighted ha ha. I shouldn't get more things from Singapore :-<

    Where is this Kampung Sampierun??

    Regards
    Kris

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  7. Thanks Lisa! Macarons are so nice to photograph. Any color combination and props would simply turn out presentable....

    Regards
    Kris

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  8. i don't know if you still in Jkt or not, but just look at this site : http://www.kampungsampireun.com/ ^_^

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  9. Thanks Fit! Really appreciated it! Have left Jakarta, will definitely go next time.

    Regards
    Kris

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  10. I love your blog..especially the pictures :)

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