My First Meringue

Happy 4th of July everyone! We hope you all had a great independence day! As Nancy said on her blog, we were able to celebrate a little bit with the boys this year. We started our day by going to the ward celebration where we were treated to pancakes and sausage and a clogging group. (I decided I appreciate clogging much more in a parade...) All in all it was a fun morning and we were able to meet a few more people in the ward. We then decided we wanted to make pies for when the boys came home. I unwisely attempted to make one I had never made before. I opted for the Key Lime Meringue. I got the recipe from Nancy and enthusiastically started my attempt. All was going well until I put the key lime filling and the crust in the oven to bake. I will say that I tried to follow the recipe exactly but never having made key lime pie (and having made too many pudding pies), I had no idea what consistency the filling should be when it was done baking. And this was the fatal flaw... inspite of a beautiful meringue on top, the filling was unfortunately the consistency (brace yourself for this) of snot. GROSS! Because I have a loving husband, when I went to serve my pie after the movie and said that I thought it looked disgusting, his reply was, "I love everything you make." And somehow he was able to force down a whole piece. Needless to say, he may not love everything I make and we fed the rest to the garbage can. Oh well! I guess we live and learn!