tashi deleg

How does one digress from the Tibetan New Year to a recipe for macaroons?
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For those wondering; Tashi Deleg means Hello and Good Fortune in Tibetan.

In honor of Losar, the Tibetan New Year (which occurred yesterday), the glorious moment has finally arrived for the sharing of this fabled Dasila Macaroon Recipe. The beseechings for this recipe have been long... pitiful and unrelenting! I can no longer carry the burden on my own, guard it well, for it may soon vanish back into the ether from which it came.

The mystery revealed:

by turning life upside-down
we find the deepest sweetness
that lies beneath e v e r y t h i n g
[i.e. chocolate bushed on the bottom of each cookie]

Dasila’s Orange Macaroons
pre-heat @ 350

3 eggs
1 c. sugar (or other sweetener)
4 T. soft butter
2 ½ c. coconut
4-5 T. flour (depending on coconut moisture)
½ t. salt
2 t orange oil
1 bar (3.5 oz) high quality bittersweet chocolate

the process:
beat -- eggs, sugar, butter, salt
fold in -- coconut, flour
scoop – (with sorbet scoop) onto parchment paper or exopat
bake – 10-15 min.
cool – 20 min.
melt – chocolate in double boiler
brush – chocolate on the bottom of each macaroon

Unsolicited review of this recipe
provided by a food critic of much acclaim:

"Yes, those coconutorangechocolate macaroons are indeed something special. I hear that people are volunteering for immolation since there is a rumor that upon arrival in Heaven the starter kit includes 72 of these macaroons."