Simply Marvelous

We celebrated Easter on Monday and my parents, siblings, niece & nephew and two of my grandparents had a very nice dinner together. We had boiled dinner (which is traditionally a St. Patrick's day meal) and I decided to try making a new dessert: Meringue Marvel.

The "cake" part consisted of a dozen egg whites, arrowroot powder, vanilla extract, sucanat. I didn't read the recipe before starting and my sister Emily was helping out and discovered that the meringue mixture was supposed to bake for TWELVE hours at 150 degrees!!! We didn't have twelve hours so we turned up the temp to 200 and cooked it for 7 hours instead. It worked out fine.... however I can't say it worked out better than the lower temp/longer cook time as it is the first time I've cooked meringue. 

Then I whipped cream for the middle. I didn't add any sugar (which I normally do when making whipped cream). I shaved some bakers chocolate into little pieces and then staked it all together.When putting the chocolate pieces on the top layer I was originally going to make a design but I had lots of chocolate left over and decided to just cover the whole top. 

Meringue, whipped cream, chocolate pieces, a sprinkle of peach brandy, meringue, whipped cream... etc.

It looked awesome and it tasted AMAZING. It wasn't too sweet but it wasn't bland either! Perfection at it's best. We also cooked some berries on the stove and drizzled that atop our fluffy slices of marvelous meringue. It was heavenly.

Apocalypto and New England Boiled Dinner

Well today is the last day of my grandma's visit. She's been here since Good Friday and is leaving tomorrow. But let me tell you this last week we really have burned the midnight oil! We have stayed up till at least 12 a.m. every night. This morning I slept in till 10 o'clock! Craziness! =D Last night we watched Well today is the last day of my grandma's visit. She's been here since Good Friday and is leaving tomorrow. But let me tell you this last week we really have burned the midnight oil! We have stayed up till at least 12 a.m. every night. This morning I slept in till 10 o'clock! Craziness! =D Last night we watched Apocalypto... you know the movie directed by Mel Gibson about the Mayans. It was really good. I would watch it again any day. And our computer is supposed to be coming this next week. Gee it's been probably a month since we had "full access" on the computer. It will be nice to be able to get on the computer again.Tonight we are having New England Boiled Dinner (aka, corned beef) for dinner! Yessssss! It is pretty much the most delicious meal ever... or ... well almost. ;) hehe! Well I'll talk to y'all peeps laterz! ... you know the movie directed by Mel Gibson about the Mayans. It was really good. I would watch it again any day. And our computer is supposed to be coming this next week. Gee it's been probably a month since we had "full access" on the computer. It will be nice to be able to get on the computer again.Tonight we are having New England Boiled Dinner (aka, corned beef) for dinner! Yessssss! It is pretty much the most delicious meal ever... or ... well almost. ;) hehe! Well I'll talk to y'all peeps laterz!