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Well, after carefully studying the new Les Peits Macarons cookbook, I did it. I created beautiful, shiny, and delicious Vanilla Bean and Passion Fruit macarons. The key to success was finding a better recipe.

I decided that I would use the metric measurements provided in the recipe to be super exact. I would leave nothing to chance. These macarons needed to work! However, my analog scale, which easily displays kilogram increments, was not so easy to use for measuring grams.

Using Convertbot and some rudimentary division, this round of mise en place took a bit longer. Is 165 grams, .165 kilograms? Having to count every little hash mark on the scale between .1 and .2 kilograms sucked. .12, .14, .16, .18, wait, take some out. No, add some back in. If I’m honest, I shouldn’t be allowed to do math when I’m in the kitchen. Or anywhere else for that matter.

It was my understanding that there would be no math.
–Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, Saturday Night Live

But my patience paid off and now I don’t have to go back to Paris. Well, at least not to get some French Macarons.