Here are the final tips for stress free entertaining for you and your spouse, followed by the recipe of my husband’s favorite dessert.
9. If dinner feels like too much hassle, invite friends for afternoon tea at your home instead. Or invite them out for coffee at the local coffee shop
10. Check when making arrangements for a meal of afternoon tea that the person has no allergies. I once made a chicken dinner only to find out as it was being served that the person was allergic to chicken. Now I ask beforehand if they have any allergies.
11. Quiet music can set the tone and be relaxing when guests come over but don’t have it too loud so people have trouble hearing. It should be background music only.
12. Your crock pot or slow cooker can be your best friend. Then, it doesn’t matter if people are late. I wish I’d had one years ago when we knew a couple who were invariably late. It would have taken lot of stress out of the situation for me and for Mick who had to watch me getting more hassled the later they got.
Here is the recipe for Mick’s favorite dessert.
Wheat and Gluten Free Lemon Meringue Pie
Pie shell
8 ounces of gluten free sweet biscuits – I use coconut biscuits but any sweet biscuit will do.
4 Tablespoons lemon juice (you can use orange juice, but I prefer lemon)
Lemon filling
2 Tablespoons gluten free flour
Half a cup white sugar
One and a half cups water
5 tablespoons lemon juice and 2 tablespoons grated lemon zest (I like it tangy and so does Mick, but if you like it sweeter cut the amount of juice and zest down)
2 eggs
2 ounces butter or margarine
Meringue Topping
4 tablespoons white sugar
Combine crushed biscuits and orange juice. Press into a pie dish greased with butter or margarine. Place in the fridge to chill.
Put flour and sugar in a saucepan and blend with water. Heat till boiling, stirring all the while. When mixture is thickened, simmer for 2 minutes. Take from heat. Stir in lemon juice, zest, butter and egg yolks. Pour this into chilled biscuit base.
Put egg whites in mixer; add sugar a little at a time. Mix on high speed till it forms stiff peaks. Spread over lemon filling.
Cook in oven at 300 degrees for 20 minutes.
Chill and enjoy.
Husbands usually love this dessert. Last night when we had dinner guests we had a crock pot meal of beef in red wine, rice and garlic bread followed by this dessert. Everyone loved it. It was a very relaxed evening.
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