we made a pavlova through the strange genius of the pavlova magic plastic egg thingy. i got to use the kenwood chef, which is a kickass mixer, and the resultant pavlova batter was absolutely beautiful. amazing how artificial stuff can look so, well, perfect (ok, ok, not really that amazing i know).
we watched fellowship of the ring on the huge plasma screen while the pav cooked. when it was done, we heaped a whole bunch of stuff on there.
sadly, however, although it looked amazing, it wasn't quite how i like pavlova. i prefer the base to be quite chewy with a lot of shattery merengue, but this one was really sort of foamy in the middle. so, lesson is (which we already knew): artificial looks perfect, but made-from-scratch tastes a million times better.
the thing I like best about this photo is the tea cosies you and Bek are wearing - it gives it all that playschool discovery type of atmosphere
ReplyDeleteand my tea cosy had a doll on it that wobbled when i nodded my head! if i could post the movie clip we took of it, i would...it's strangely mesmerising...
ReplyDeleteI tried to make one of those magic egg pavlova thingos when I was in high school. I used an aluminimum bowl with the Kenwood mixer to beat it all up like I was meant to.
ReplyDeleteSome blooming chemical in the egg-magic reacted with the aluminum bowl - leaving me with a beautiful grey pavlova.
Yummy.
My family were all very polite and had small slices, and surprisingly enough, didn't come back for seconds...
that's kind of like my brother making chocolate self-saucing pudding out of the packet when he was in high school, and taking the instructions quite literally. so when it told him to put all the dry ingredients in the bowl, he did. when it said to add milk, he did. when it said to add an egg, he added an egg (thankfully he did break it first).
ReplyDeletehe looked at it before putting it in the oven, then took the bowl to mum and said, "it doesn't look quite right."
to this day she is still haunted by the image of a bowl full of pudding mixture with an unmixed egg floating on top...
mmm. tasty.