Cooking Mag Mommy

Some days the pictures I post on this blog really show off the food I have made and let the reader know what the dish should look like. Other times, I think I'm just about the worst photographer on earth and a beautiful dessert looks like a blurry mess. Sadly, today was a bad picture day. On the tiny little screen of my digital camera the picture at left of tonight's dessert, the Three Layer Berry Pavlova, from page 63 of this month's Gourmet, looked just fine. After loading it to the computer, long after we had cut into and made a mess of the meringue, I realized the picture was blurry and looked really lopsided. As the saying goes, it looked much better in person. This dessert tasted great, too. I have made one other Pavlova, also for this project, and love the flavor and texture of this dessert. The only down side is that it is not good for leftovers. It gets soggy pretty quickly and after cutting, looks like it has been struck by a small bomb. Yep, that's why you ge...