Pistachio Macarons

Recently I've had a string of okay-but-not-great baking experiences, using recipes I found online. I'm usually pretty discerning with recipes I find on the internet - I pay close attention to ratings and comments, and I'll rarely use one that has no feedback at all. But I just wasn't having great luck. The things I made weren't bad, per se, but I wouldn't take the time to make them again. So after those disappointments, I decided to hit the books - cookbooks, that is.
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Love Bars

 

I know that our sense of smell is supposed to be the sense most strongly linked to memory, but I think you'll all agree that certain foods can act as little time machines, zooming us back to a time and place buried in the past. Love Bars, which are sold at Pret A Manger (a sandwich chain in the UK that sells really tasty to-go meals), have this time machine effect on me; one bite and I'm back on the slow train to Chelmsford, eating my lunch after a long morning in the library. The ironic thing is that I would've been in the library researching nostalgia - the subject of my thesis - and now I'm waxing nostalgic about the delicious treats I enjoyed after studying (...and before studying, and during studying).

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