Thanks, Blue!  We LOVE macaroons!  We go to Fuddrucker's Hamburgers (the chain started here, but I think it's all over the States now) sometimes when we go to the cemetery at Ft Sam Houston, where my Dad is buried (long story...it's close and it was one of his favorite places to eat).  They have the most delicious macaroons, they have plain and with chocolate drizzled across the tops.  And, a couple of years ago, someone in the bakery made a mistake and put in chopped pecans!  They were such a success, that people started asking for them that way, and they now put pecans in all the time!  They are wonderful.