Now we cross off the 3rd recipe from A Treasury of New Zealand Baking. Last night The Mister decided to give the all-in-one pav a go. He had to become acquainted with Mother’s 42 year old Kenwood mixer (appliances don’t last like they used to, although having said that at the end of the 10-minutes beating time it leaked machine oil into my hand when I removed the beater) which made him feel like it wasn’t really hand made seeing as the mixer did all the hard work.

It was a great success! I drew a circle on the baking paper to help him with a nice round shape.

It rose up and up and only cracked a tiny bit – Mother was jealous!

It was a great mound of light crisp meringue outer and delicate marshmallow inner.

And I’ve just found this photo from Christmas 2005 when The Mister actually  made his first pav, and the niece was supervising back then too! (She’s very amused to see this photo, “look how little I am and look how long and funny his hair is!!”)

I know it’s hard to see in the photo but we went down to the Whakatane Heads yesterday to see Moko the dolphin who’s made his home on local beaches around the East Cape and Bay of Plenty, after seeing on Twitter that he was in town.

Lots of people crowded to watch him frolicking with kids on flutter boards and swimming alongside the tour boats coming back from White Island.

You can just see him above the head of the 3rd person in from the left.