Have you ever had one of those days, weeks, months, years? This year is turning into one set back after another! As you know my mother passed away in January, very suddenly. That was really hard on all of us. Just the worst. We all know we are going to lose our loved ones one day, but somehow, when it happens, we are never prepared for it. Then my oven broke, not once, but twice . . . and I was without a working oven for about 2 1/2 months altogether. After that somehow, its still a mystery to me, my stick blender disappeared. Not the whole thing, just the motor for it. And now today my electric mixer has blown up. Right in the middle of making these lovely desserts. I apologise in advance for the crummy photos. They are not as pretty as they might have been had I not had to beat up the egg whites by hand. I had no sooner got everything ready to go, went to plug in my electric mixer ...