My First Macaron. =)

I was a bit naughty this weekend, which I feel bad about cause I have a terribly delicious and unhealthy weekend planned next week.But I did alot of jogging so its ok.. anyway onto the interesting stuff.

..... I have a confession. Until this weekend I had never eaten a macaron...I have seen so many enticing pitcures on various food blogs.. and heard so many wonderful reviews I decided that next time I saw some I would have to try them.

So this weekend I found myself at the rocks.

The first thing I saw at the rocks was this massive boat:

(its crazy...You could see what they were watching on the gigantic television screen on the boat from across the water!!)

Then while walking around the markets I spied a lady holding a tiny box with 3 macarons in it....

I had to hunt them down!

So I saw a patisserie and checked inside... success!!!

I bought 3 Macarons... rosewater and buttercream, salted caramel, and olive oil and white chocolate ganache. ($10 per 100g)

I cant believe it took me this long to try these! They were delicious! The crisp shell, moist sweet inside... yum....

The rose one was amazing, will definately be trying more of those. The caramel was nice but slightly too bitter for my taste, the bitterness somehow didnt balance well with the amount of sugar, but it wasnt bad, the olive oil and white chocolate was a bit of a let down, the macaron itself was nice but the white chocolate ganache had a bit of a.. fake taste.

So overall, I am definately a newly converted Macaron lover, but will obviously need to do alot more 'research' i.e eat lots more.(I have been promised a trip to Adriano Zumbos in balmain for my birthday which is coming up so I will probably have to give in to temtaion and try quite a few then!)

The Macarons were followed by a dinner not worth mentioning (lets just say the reason I for what I though to be a very good value nicoise salad was that it contained a tin of that horrible mushy sandwich tuna....)