Meringue was a massive fail
I think the recipe is fine but the problem was me making it! I've never made it before so think maybe I over mixed it?? Recipe said to leave it in oven for an hour and a half until the base is crisp. Did that but the base wasn't crisp so left it in longer but it never went crisp. Then the top seemed sticky?? The actual topping (of the natural yogurt and quark) was actually nice! I had to add more sweetener than it said though. Anyone any meringue making tips for me?? I'l ask mum when I go down later cos I think if I can get it right it will be really nice for the amount of syns!
Anyway, it seems like I've been in the kitchen all day! Also tried making the tomato and sweet pepper dip but didn't like it at all! I used the peppers mentioned (mild sweet peppadew peppers) but the dip was really tangy! Not sweet like I was imagining it to be. Then tried chickpea dahl loaf. Really like it
Then made dinner. Tried the sweet potato cakes with sweet chilli mayo. I like these too
The book makes 6 mini ones (from 1 sweet potato) to serve 2 people. I doubled the recipe and made 4 big ones out of it and they were lovely. Will be making these again.
Food today
S: pear
B: porridge (B and part A) with raspberries and banana. coffee.
L: chickpea dahl loaf
D: 2 sweet potato cakes with sweet chilli mayo (2) with salad and leftover chilli
S: badly made meringue (allowing 8 syns for what I ate of this!), choc orange hifi (B) and 2 clementines.
Really craving chocolate right now but don't want to use anymore syns (due to the malteser incident last night!). Thought I had another B to use for rocky roads until I remembered I had porridge for breakfast! Going to try the honey pomelo I got earlier this week. Apparently they take a while to get into so hopefully by then the craving will have passed!
Syns: 10
Weekly syns: 59/105