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Mixed Berry Pavlova with Blueberry Sauce

Hi friends! I know I always say this, but holy cow I’m ready for the weekend! Woot! I’ve had a week of first world problems over here.

My website broke over the weekend and I handled that like a two year old throwing tantrums and ended up in the fetal position under my desk sucking my thumb.

There was much nail biting and teeth gnashing to go along with the hysterics.

Chris was impressed.

I mean, really. Who wouldn’t be?

So we got that problem fixed and went to the garden center. We got almost all of our spring plants and brought them home and planted them in our garden Sunday morning. That was fun and inspiring.

But seriously, when your website breaks all bets are off! The rest of Sunday was spent ~~day drinking~~ getting manicures and pedicures with Lisa and friends. Then dinner out and ~~more booze~~ a lovely dinner of crab legs.

All was well with the world.

Until the dishwasher broke. I KNOW! One of the worst first world problems ever!

I’m fairly certain my food blogger friends out there totally get the magnitude of this event.

Or any of my friends who made dinner. EVER!

So, then exercise gets your endorphins or some other kind of happy business going, right? It’s supposed to put you in a good mood, right?

Ummmm, could someone please inform the hundreds of creepy inch worms dangling from spider web things in the trees that I do not like them attacking me while running to get said mood elevated. It really just freaks me out and is a total buzzkill.

So that was the excitement of my week. I do not know what in tarnation I have done to deserve this onslaught of broken things and creepy worms, but I certainly hope to improve my karma for next week!

At least it’s spring and that means renewal and hope. And berries! Since I don’t have an abundance of luck this week, at least I have an abundance of berries! Fruit to the rescue!

And meringue! I have to be honest and keep things real here. I never thought I liked meringue. I’m not really sure of the reason. Maybe because it looks like marshmallow and I don’t love that. I was totally wrong. This stuff is delicious.

I was watching Ina on the Food Network make something like this and had a complete compulsion to take my abundance of berries and make this happen. I’m so glad I did.

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P.S. I hope you have no broken appliances or attacks of the creepy inch worms!

Mixed Berry Pavlova with Blueberry Sauce

Ingredients

For the Pavlova

4 large egg whites at room temperature
pinch of sea salt
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
1 cup strawberries hulled and sliced
1 cup blueberries
1 1/2 cup blackberries

For the Whipped Cream

1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
1 tablespoon sugar

For the Blueberry Sauce

1 cup blueberries
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons sugar

Instructions

Heat oven to 180
Draw a 9 inch circle on parchment paper using a plate as a guide, flip the parchment over to avoid transferring pencil to the meringue
Add egg whites and salt to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment
Beat the egg whites and salt on high for about a minute or until firm
Slowly add the sugar and continue beating on high for another couple of minutes or until you see stiff shiny peaks
Sift cornstarch into egg whites, add vanilla bean paste and vinegar and fold into egg whites
Turn meringue out onto the parchment paper circle and smooth to edges of the circle and make even thickness as possible
Bake 1 1/2 hours
Turn off oven and allow to cool for another hour or so with the door closed
Invert meringue onto a plate or cake stand

For the Whipped Cream

Chill whisk and bowl of stand mixer in freeze for 20-30 minutes
Make sure the cream is chilled, add to bowl of stand mixer with vanilla bean paste and sugar, attach whisk and whip until soft peaks form - about 3 minutes

For the Blueberry Sauce

Add blueberries, sugar, water to a small sauce pan, bring to a boil and simmer until thickens
Set aside to cool
Transfer to food processor or blender and puree until smooth

Assembly

Spread whipped cream over the top center of the meringue leaving a 1 inch boarder around the edges
Set blackberries around the edges and fill the middle with remaining blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries
Top with blueberry sauce

Adapted from Ina

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