Preheat oven to 300F
Line packing pans with parchment paper. Do not add any grease.
Beat egg whites until they start to make a foam and then add white sugar and salt. Whip on high until they form a peak that stands upright.
Add food coloring. The recipe advises to add a little more to make the egg whites a shade or two darker, since color fades after baking. I used a little too much of super red gel food coloring. I used Americolor Food Color Super Red.
Mix a little more so the color gets distributed evenly.
Sift almond flour and powdered sugar. You'll get some remains of larger lumps of almond pieces. You need the mixture to be smooth , so you don't get any lumps in the cookies and they don't crack.
Fold almond flour/powder sugar mixture into egg white mixture. Be careful, because if you under mix macarons will be cracked and lumpy and will have no feet. 65-75 turns of your spatula should be the right amount of time.
Transfer batter to a pastry bag.
Using a wide round tip pipe 1 inch rounds on a baking sheet , that you lined with parchment paper.
Tap the pan hard at least 3-5 times to release air bubbles. This will prevent the cookies from cracking.
Let them sit out for between 30 minutes to 1 hour. This will dry them a little before placing them in the hot oven. When they are dry, they can't spread out in the oven and they rise up and form feet.
Bake for 20 minutes. Do not undertake or they will stick to your pan. Some of mine did stick to the parchment paper and it was not easy to separate from it. I recommend that you remove them from the baking sheet in 3-5 minutes after you take them out of the oven.