Tropical Icebergs

During the Christmas holidays, when at home at my love's mom, who has an amazing big TV, I saw the first episode of Frozen Planet by the BBC Earth. And watching this, you need a big screen.

I was amazed what beautiful wonders the warming of the Earth can create. It made me feel so excited and sad at the same time.
I have always thought, and am pretty sure, that nature can never be overruled in its beauty by manmade things. This series confirmed that feeling.
The countless shades of blue that hide in a piece of ancient ice. The slow transformation of a glacial landscape. The love-making of polar bears.

The closest I've ever been to an icy landscape like this was the Rhone and Aletsch glacier in Switzerland. We climbed the mountain next to it to be able to see the miles long street of thousands of years old ice. At the end of the Rhone glacier there is an ice cave that you can enter. It was covered with pieces of white cloth to reflect the warm sunlight and to keep the glacier from melting away even quicker.

Not that it has anything to do with it, I just thought they looked somewhat like little icebergs...I baked a tropical delight last week 'coconut rocks' or as we call them in Holland 'cocos macronen'.

I was looking for a 'quick and easy' recipe and that's exactly what this is.

You need:
180gr of ground coconut
2 very fresh eggwhites
120gr of table sugar
1/2 a stick of fresh vanilla
1 pinch af salt

Preheat the oven on 210 degrees C.
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. Make whatever shape you like of them as long as you get between 15 and 20 pieces. Put them on a baking paper lined oven tray and bake them for about 5-8 minutes, depending on your oven. You can keep them for a few days.

After baking 

above 4 photo's from www.lovethesepics.com

Rhone glacier

Aletsch glacier