On tonight's menu - Long time comfort food and modified from my earlier newly wed meal of shake & bake chicken, mashed potatoes, corn niblets. Now it's evloved to lightly coated - homemade coating without sugar - baked boneless & skinless breasts with peach chutney, steamed swiss chard, and saffron rice. A late season tomato salad with fresh herbs will be served as well. Here's the pic of the salad & main dish.
DH needed a dessert for a meeting tonight. I made him meringue desserts - 2 dozen. This is a dessert I modified years ago and still works well. These are very easy to make but they do require time because of the long baking & cooling times. The real trick is getting the meringue just right. The centre of the nest should only be big enough for a 1 - 1 1-2 tbsp of filling. They are a great way to use up bits of left over jams or jellies so are quite economical. DH likes them filled with lemon curd or cherry pie filling. A chutney such as peach or mango would work well too. Here's the pics. strawberry, apple, & sweet cherry
Before anyone asks, I'm not sure if you could make these using splenda as I haven't tried. I suspect if you could then used a low sugar or dietetic filling they would be low carb as well.
Mead CakeThat depends very heavily on the mead you get, how its made, what sort of honey is...
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