Lately I have been on a comfort food baking spree, motivated by my homesickness intensified with my parents winter snowbird adventure for 3 months. I have baked bread and homemade egg noodles and I found myself at the end of it with 3 extra egg whites. Well, I have finally been gifted a replacement hand mixer, and have learn with multiple failed attempts that egg whites are finicky unless at room temperature so I left them out for a few hours until this was so, and with a simple pavlova recipe, I added a couple drops of red dye, and watched them like hawks because they needed way less time than a pavlova to cook completely.
My daughter and I have come to love Nerdy Nummies and Ro has made a couple of meringue recipes that inspired me to try to elevate my game. I got out my reusable icing bag and my biggest Wilton attachment, and made some valentines.
Here's the picture of some of them.
They remind me of some family size meringues we saw when we visited Venice.
We visited a mall we had heard about in Brossard called Dix30. It had one of my favourite restaurants, Elixor, so we ate there for this year's valentine's celebration. Our first choice was the lovely restaurant at Auberge Handfield, but their winter hours do not include lunch. So we were happy to find Elixor, although the lunch was almost too big to consider the amazing cheesecake for dessert, but I powered through! I had the parpardelle with mushrooms and my husband had a great burrito with house made salsa and guacamole. Yum!
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