Miette French Macaroons & Rose Geranium

This past Saturday I discovered that Miette has a brand new flavour French macaroon: Rose Geranium! I was going to buy my favorite one, pistachio, but they were absent and these had been sent in their place. Crunchy, chewy, sweet, creamy: this is a French macaroon at its best. Miette, in their slightly rustic, Organic way, uses whole almonds, skin on, to make the almond meal to be carefully folded into the light French meringue that is the foundation of this delicate and pretty sandwich cookie. This choice also gives the bite a bit of texture to play with. Fun.

The best rose flavoured French macaroon I ever had came from the Pierre Herme shop in Paris. I became mute with awe. It melted in my mouth and filled my olfactory byways with pure pleasure.

But if you can't hop, skip or jump over to Paris for the weekend, these can take their pleasurable place. A big fan of using rose geranium in my own cooking and baking, I love the way the rosy scent comes through like a natural blush, not merely the same same same of rose water's ubiquitous and manufactured perfume taste (think white truffle oil.)

If you can't get enough of rose geranium's alluring seduction give June Taylor a ring. Her Meyer Lemon & rose geranium marmalade is sitting proudly among my International preserves collection, and will surely settle in nicely, if not for long, among your own cabinet of special condiments.

Comments

[Elise]

Hey Shuna,
I love June's meyer lemon rose geranium marmalade so much that I just bought two rose geranium plants and potted them yesterday. By next season should have enough lemons and rose geranium leaves with which to experiment.

[Kudzu]

Thanks for reminding me. Time to get a couple of rose geranium plants to replace the ones I left behind when I moved. I have two small jars of rose geranium sugar I put up to bring with me, though, so the floral sweetness remains. I love to use it as a finishing sprinkle, or add it to whipped cream

[lindy]

These sound so perfect, and look beautiful.
Will you perhaps offer a recipe with rose geranium?

[avocaboy]

What great photos!

[julie]

Those look lovely. Your photographs and descriptive narrative are brilliant! Heavenly.

[Rorie]

My mouth is watering reading your wonderfully descriptive post! Last week I sampled some of Boule's (L.A.) scrumptious macarons .... can't wait to try these!

[Amanda]

I discovered these, too. Holy
sh%*! They are so good. I'm still a sucker for the pistachio, though.

[sandy]

hello shuna, i was wondering if you could give me some tips or advice, i tried making these lovely macaroon, and they dont have the crispness? or the part under the macaroon? please help.!!

thankyou..