Last winter us girls travelled to the USA mostly to visit family but on our adventures we discovered that on top of American summers being better than Sydney winters, hometown Portland is the micro brewery capital of the USA. Yes, we were excited, yes we visited numerous breweries, yes, we tasted large platters of beer, yes the pictures are completely inappropriate.What you may not know is that Portland, OR also grows muchos amounts of berries. Seriously thestatistics are ridiculous. Growers there harvest:
marionberry, raspberry, blackberry, black raspberry and boysenberry and the best part is there are so many berries that they sell them on the side of the road in flats like this and price wise a
A person can find themselves pretty happy with a flat of berries.
Anyway getting to the point. As well as microbrew capital Portland OR also prides itself on it's berries. So I prided their berries with some Australian pride. There isn't a scale here and in hindsight I should have included a ruler or a bank note for reference but it was huge. Mumma sure did me a solid giving me that pavlova recipe. Everyone says you have to dissolve the sugar but I think not. Clearly I'm not a chef but I just think this works better, or maybe I just don't worry if the sugar is completely dissolved. All I know is that the American fam loved the pav.
flat of strawberries is $15 which beats the Aussie prices. Yeah those big trays are called flats and there are 6 punnets in a flat.
A person can find themselves pretty happy with a flat of berries.
Anyway getting to the point. As well as microbrew capital Portland OR also prides itself on it's berries. So I prided their berries with some Australian pride. There isn't a scale here and in hindsight I should have included a ruler or a bank note for reference but it was huge. Mumma sure did me a solid giving me that pavlova recipe. Everyone says you have to dissolve the sugar but I think not. Clearly I'm not a chef but I just think this works better, or maybe I just don't worry if the sugar is completely dissolved. All I know is that the American fam loved the pav.
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