Cream coloured parsnips and crisp apple strudel, Beetroot and bok choi and swiss chard with noodles - 10/10 thread,

[TooTicky]

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Right, Cha cha, pay attention to the next stage.

Take a metal tablespoon and spoon the meringue mixture onto the prepared baking shett, forming a circle of about 8 inches in diameter. Then spoon round blobs next to each other so that they join up to form a circle all around the edge. Now, using the tip of a skewer make little swirls in the meringue all around the edge, lifting the skewer up sharply each time to leave tiny peaks (What a fuss pot, I don't see why you have to do all this skewer business).

Now place in oven, and turn down to 140 and leave it to cook for 1 hour. Then turn the heat right off BUT LEAVE THE PAVLOVA inside the oven until it's completely cold. Leave it in the oven overnight to dry out. WILL STILL BE GOOEY.

To serve, lift it from the baking sheet, peel off the paper, and pile in the whipped cream and berries of your choice.

yes tablespoon

yes circle

yes peaks

yes skewer

yes oven

marvellous marvellous. bondage?

yes tablespoon

yes circle

yes peaks

yes skewer

yes oven

marvellous marvellous. bondage?

er, before you get too carried away with the bondage, I think there was a summer weddding boked yesterday? Am I the bride or the groom?

PSW - As far as Im aware vegans don't eat animal products as opposed to living products, so I would imagine Toot is ok with yeast, not sure about beeswax though.

my hand quivered with excitement

Silicone paper. Hmmm. I use that bake O glide stuff that Nigella is so fond of. You need something proper though, like that black stuff. Otherwise it'll stick and that's rubbish.

[ignores all bondage talk]

I have had wine and chocolate and I am feeling decadent. I have decided I am the bride and I would like a fuck-off great diamond, please, thank you very much.

, yes my along did drop off in all the excitement of it all.

Where is the bondage, pray tell?

MrsC you got married already [spoilsport]

she is a coy one, this 100x

I haven't any paper and won't be able to get any in time

what will happen if I use foil?

Oh dear MrsC, Avi ate the ring last night.

Right going to watch a film with dh. Any urgent questions before I go? Are you cooking this tonight Fra?

no HA HA HA at cooking anything now

I think on Saturday afternoon

I am going to watch grown up Rapunxzel

I had satsumas. 3 portions oh and juice this morning 4.

Flipping heck, I missed bondage and triangles and all the good stuff.

S'okay, 100 & Franny whipped a meringue or something

I'm watching the Dispatches programme about food

Interesting about tolerances & testing of food and finding massively higher fat levels

OOh, in major flap now, have managed to not think and bunged DS's lovely new playmat in the machine [DD weed on it just before bathtime], and forgot that I had slung my indigo hoodie in there too, it has run all over the mat, and I am really upset about it, is there anything I can do?

Have posted in GH, but no one has responded, and worried that if I leave it to dry it will set IYSWIM

not sure you can do anything, Wombling, bt I am not an expert.

DD weed in my slipper the other day.

I like tofu I like it scrambled atm.

PSW, no doubt some people will think me a fraud, but I call myself vegan for simplicity. I do eat honey, but not mass-produced supermarket type honey where they feed them with lots of sugar and kill the queens etc, etc. I don't think I eat beeswax but the best bum cream ever contains beeswax and we stiull have some. And I bought leather shoes most recently, but this is because they are made to measure (so they actually fit!), handmade by a nice self taught fairy in the woods in Devon, so local produce really, and the leather is English, and they will last me years, so good environmentally. As in less landfill and purchasing. I know leather tanning is still very water and chemical intensive.
I avoid all meat, fish, milk and egg products, also crushed beetles which appear commonly (cochineal colouring and shellac glaze).
I did, last summer, collect ladybirds and put them on plants with aphids and there was a certain satisfaction in seeing them tuck right in.
So, I'm not sure quite where that puts me really.

LOL at weeing in slipper MrsC

Sorry if you felt you had to justify anything TooT. I was just interested and don't think you a fraud at all! I was thinking about making bread and thought of you! My sweet shop's vegan jellies are divine - all gooey and jammy in the middle but proabably not very fair trade British made though. We saw cochineal beetles in Lanzarote when I was small. Love the ladybirds munching on aphids story And I didn't realise that what they did to bees for honey. What kind do you buy? Oh how I wish I had spoken to you at the meet-up

I have just had some dried apricots to drag my day's total up to 5 like the 'normo's aim for. I love that expression. I think I got it from my BIL!

No no, I didn't feel obliged to justify

What make are the vegan jellies? There are a couple of makes that are definitely okay as my friend sells them in her shop and she is rigorous.

I buy either local honey from small producers or fair trade honey - there is a lovely forest honey in a wide jar, also Jamaican logwood which has a stronger flavour. I love reading the side of the jar, about the people who harvest the honey from wild bees' nests, taking half and leaving half for the bees. I would quite like to keep bees one day. I like bees

I don't know about yeast - vegans do eat it. And so do I, obviously.
Mind you, some people are fruitarians...

But yeast is live isn't it? Ah. I was about to type live yoghurt but that's dairy!

Ah but you can get live soya yoghurt....

Gosh, wouldn't it be complicated if you couldn't eat live things at all? But yeast & bacteria aren't classified as animals, are they, so presumably ok, even if live. And if you weren't going to eat bacteria then you wouldn't want to wash, would you because that kills them? Could be quite messy. I'm waffling. Off to bed.

I love bees, I would love a beehive (and I don't even like honey really, just bees). Dp can't stick flying things though

I think yeast is more like a vegetable than an animal, isn't it? It's one of those crossover things - it isn't really a sentient creature that's for sure