Coconut Macaroooooooons!

So, as you can see, this is not going to be a daily blog. As much as I hope it would be, cooking can take up a lot of time.

ANYWAYS, so it's my Dad's birthday today and I thought, "Hey, I should make him something." So as I flipped through the cookbook, the coconut macaroons catch my eye. It's simple, quick, and a dessert.

Luckily, I have all of the ingredients in my pantry. Oh wait, I didn't have nutmeg. So instead I used Cinnamon. So if any of you want to try and do this, it's really simple.

Ingredients:
2 Egg whites (this means you have to separate the yolk from the white part)
Half a cup of Brown Sugar
1 and a half cup of Unsweetened Coconut Shavings
About a splash of Vanilla Extract
A Teaspoon of Cinnamon (or any spice you like)

Pretty much, preheat your oven to 350*C. Combine all the ingredients, grease a baking tray, and then ball up the ingredients into pieces and place on the tray. Bake for about 15 mins, then once it's golden brown, let it cool for a bit. Once that's done, dig in!

This recipe is really easy and it's really good too. It's not too sweet and it taste amazing. Since I've tried it, I think it's time to up the game a bit. How does Mocha Coconut Macaroons sound? Yeah, amazing, I thought so too. So stay tuned, the next recipe will follow shortly. I bet your taste buds are watering right now. Yeah that's what I thought. Take it easy!


PS: I apologize for the poor quality of the picture. I used the camera on my phone. Next time I'll try and use a better camera.

Welcome!

Alright, so a lot of you are probably wondering what this blog is about. Well, pretty much, it's for my writing class.

I'm sure that most of you, if not all of you, know who Chef Michael Smith is. No? Okay well if you don't, you probably live under a rock. Anyways, he's probably the best modern well known chef in Canada. He has a few shows in the food network channel including Chef at Home, and Chef at Large.

Now, who am I? Well, my names Nikko Adrias. I'm a grade 12 student in St. Patricks Regional Secondary in Vancouver, B.C. No I'm not famous, nor am I a professional chef. I'm just a kid who hopes to become like Chef Michael Smith one day.

So, what I'm going to attempt to do is this. A few months back, my mom met Chef Michael at a conference in Toronto. He gave her a copy of his cookbook as well as a recomendation for me to attend VCC and their Culinary Arts program. Now that I have that in mind as well as his cookbook, I will attempt to do all of the recipes in his cookbook and then blog about it afterwards. This sound familiar to you? If it does it's probably because you've watched Julie and Julia. This is pretty much from the inspiration of that movie, but on a smaller scale.

With that, get comfy, prepare your taste buds, and follow along with me on my journey to

"cook with and without a recipe."