And!

 

We did experiment with cooking/air frying/baking other recipes too, not just the Eton Mess.

I bought a large bag of cauliflower florets for the kids to snack on.  I like raw cauliflower, but the kids looked at them and pronounced them "styrofoam" broccoli."  I see their point, but they were not going to eat them no matter what I said.  So I used a Pioneer Woman recipe younger daughter had given me, and air-fried them.  Yummm... But the kids had no interest in them and I had to eat them all myself.  Again, yummm.

Another recipe:

Scones, from Mary Berry's recipe. They tasted great, but the recipe calls for self-rising flour, which I didn't have, so they were a bit flat. (Notice the one on the far right, the one I used a cutter to make. Flat. For the others, I just plopped the dough on the cookie sheet and those looked better.)  Self-rising flour means self-rising flour. Lesson learned.

And I made homemade buttermilk biscuits, which I am ashamed to say, I had never done before. They turned out well, and they were for strawberry shortcake.  We haven't had that in years and years because my husband thought he was allergic to strawberries, but a particularly bad reaction last year to who knows what sent him to the allergist.  He had lots of tests and it turned out he is not allergic to strawberries.  What he is allergic to, really badly allergic to, is now a mystery.

Beautiful, right?

And yesterday I learned about this:

Oh, my.

I can't imagine that (probably frozen, pre-made) Eton Mess could possibly be good. Wouldn't all the merengue pieces and the added chocolate cookies be kind of soggy or cardboard-y after being held in the whipped cream for who-knows-how-long?

It's too easy to make and too good to use this pre-made stuff instead. I wonder if restaurants do.

Make your own, y'all!