SUPER EASY KeyWi LIME PIE

So my boyfriend is from America, right? New York is where he was born but moved to New Jersey as a kid (right by the hudson so still very close to New York). And as most Americans do he went away to university- this lead himto Florida- personally i dont like the idea of Florida reminds me of raisins and old people and tacky palm trees (no offence!! i just think there are other places in the USA that look more appealing to visit) but the bf, well he loved it there. He loved the Keys. The Keys are the little islands trailing off the peninsular all connected, so i'm told, by a road!!!! I hear they are very low lying and global warming is going to swallow them right up. Anyway I digress... Key West was the favourite of the bf- he loved the hippy life style and while I laugh in an I'm-embarrassed-for-you kind of way at his photos of horrible jandals (flipflops), braclets and anklets, long hair and hawaiian shirts he has a smile of good-times-of-old on his face.
So this brings me to my dessert of the night:

KEY LIME PIE
I found a recepie in '4 Ingredients' (which is a great Australian book- good for students and flatters as it is all easy dishes with 4 ingredients) while looking for the weeks meals and remember how the bf practically inhailed his last piece when we were in The States for a wedding in '08.
So here is a combination of that recipe and one from the internet that also looked good :)
http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/keylime.htm

Ingredients:

• --> wine crackers (only because i saw them first- i'm a freedom baker and would use any plain biscuit type... gingernuts, digestives- all good options)
• --> 100grams butter (melted)
• --> small can of condensed milk -397grams (which equals exactly 14 ounces)
• --> 4 limes (two for the zest and all 4 for juice)
  --> 4 egg yolks (keep the whites for an optional simple and yummy meringue topping

Instructions:

whisk the zest of two limes (finely grated off the lime) with the 4 egg yolks

this takes about 2mins - and should turn lightly green -

next time i will add two drops of green food colouring because its fun :)

then add the condensed milk and whisk

add the lime juice and whisk - set aside to thicken

for the crust -crush the bikkies - to do this i put all of them in a big mixing bowl and smashed them with a mug (see pics)

then add the melted butter

add this crumbly mixture to the pie tin - i used a casarole dish and if you want put it up the sides too

then bake for about 10mins till lightly browned at 190C

make sure to wait for the bikkie base to completely cool

and add the self thickened lime mixture- bake for about 15mins at 160- it should still be wobbly in the middle (go on, jiggle it)

refridgerate for 3 hours

and taaadaaaa a key lime pie

eat with whipped cream OR add a meringue topping like a lemon meringe pie

MERINGUE INGREDIENTS

• -->egg whites
• -->sugar
• --> dash of salt

beat the egg whites until stiff, beat in 7.5 table spoons of sugar and dash of salt

top over the cooled keywi lime pie and bake at 150C for around 10mins till lightly browned on top!!!

WOOOOHOOOOO :)