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I am not easily impressed with a recipe but OMG check out this easy-peasy microwave meringue recipe!!

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Carmenere · 27/01/2008 12:52

I have been trawling through the new mn recipe section and there are lots of great recipes (and some dodgy ones too, chicken on a glass plate anyone?). But this one by beautifulgirls caught my attention. I've just made it and it is extraordinarily easy and heston-esque in it's oddness. Try it out and report back.

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Carmenere · 27/01/2008 13:26

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ChristmasShinySnowflakes · 27/01/2008 13:28

This looks fab!

Thanks for posting Cermenere

KatyMac · 27/01/2008 13:29

Added a tip

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Carmenere · 27/01/2008 13:37

Oh good tip Katymac.

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Carmenere · 27/01/2008 20:45

Had these for dessert tonight, they were delicious with mango and blueberries and fat free fromage frais. So WW friendly too.

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beautifulgirls · 27/01/2008 21:12

glad to hear others are enjoying the fun too.

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 21:16

omg that looks great.

in the interest of science and good motherliness i will have to go and test recipe right now even tho the kids are in bed.

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 21:43

well. it works.

onebatmother · 27/01/2008 21:44

hooray! I love meringues and I have very poor upper body strength for whisking. thanks both.

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 21:45

how do i make one of them bowl shaped ones to fill with chopped fruit and cream then? have only managed blobs so far. good for crumbling over things i guess.

hatwoman · 27/01/2008 21:46

I'm off to make meringues this minute. how come no-one else knows this trick? kind of heston meets Nigella

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 21:48

i keep thinking you mean charlton heston. who is just some actor or something, right? (no idea. out of touch) but you mean the blumenthal bloke dont you. [dumbass]

SlightlyMadShrek · 27/01/2008 21:51

omg, simplicity.

Worth a try just to "see it" it with my own eyes. Of course then I will have to eat them .

Any chance of having some piccies of some of these recipes?

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 21:54

dont want much do you love?

discoverlife · 27/01/2008 21:59

If you want to make a bowl for Pavlova's. I think you would need to have a circle of the blobs restrained by greaseproof paper maybe in a microwavable dish?

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 22:04

ooh, you are clever discoverlife. what about the bottom of the bowl? does it matter that wouldnt be there?

farkin clueless, me.

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 22:10

just tried it.
may neeed to work on my technique.

KatyMac · 27/01/2008 22:12

Don't think bowl - think crater

Hollow but with mounded walls

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Carmenere · 27/01/2008 22:13

Tbh I think this recipe might have limitations. you could make a circle of them close together as a kind of pavalova base but I don't think you could shape them iyswim.

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SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 22:36

no. mine didnt shape, it just filled the bowl and made one giant meringue.
unless you made it in an upturned jelly mold (is it mould or mold? mould is the spores stuff, right? never mind)...one of those round ones with a middle hole. y'know.

discoverlife · 27/01/2008 22:38

Hows about a big fat round one and cut a hollow in the middle, or just crush the centre slightly for the fruit and cream?

KatyMac · 27/01/2008 22:41

That's how I do pavlova anyway - smashed in the middle

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 23:26

ah. i see.

yes that makes sense.

i didnt even know it was pavlova i was on about tbh. always wondered what pavlova was...

SnappyLaGore · 27/01/2008 23:27

is it named after pavlov of the theories on dogs and behaviour and stuff?

prob not.

KatyMac · 27/01/2008 23:28

Anna Pavlova - ballet dance - pretty frou-frou skirts - white & fluffy

Maybe? or maybe not?