Once a year...
Once a year, or maybe twice, everyone should have nothing but fresh homemade strawberry shortcake for supper. When the local road-side fruit markets are selling fresh strawberries, just picked this morning, buy a whole flat of them. Pay extra for the ones that were picked today, or better yet, take a child or grand-child along with you to pick your own.
Make biscuits from scratch; it takes 10 minutes to stir it together and 10 minutes to bake. This is less time than it will take to go into the grocery store to buy biscuits or pound cake, cheaper, you have all of the ingredients in your house already (if you’re not a bachelor), and there are no artificial ingredients or preservatives. I’ll post my mother-in-law’s recipe on my “Recipe Page” in a few days. Cut the biscuits in half, spoon in the fresh mashed up strawberries, put the top of the biscuit on top, then more strawberries, and Whipped Cream is optional (also on Recipe Page).
Make extra biscuits so that you can have more for breakfast.
Once a year, or twice a year, in August when the local corn is ripe and picked daily, and you can almost smell it from your car when you pull into the roadside market, have nothing but Sweet Corn for dinner. Eat it until you groan with contentment.
Once a year, or twice if you like, have nothing but fresh blueberry pancakes (or shortcake) for breakfast. Put mashed blueberries on top of the pancakes that you have already put blueberries into. Put them in yoghurt.
You get the idea. You don’t have to have a square meal every day. When food is fresh, just hour old, gorge on it. I like to think of it as excess in moderation. And as long as it is fresh it is guilt free.
Make biscuits from scratch; it takes 10 minutes to stir it together and 10 minutes to bake. This is less time than it will take to go into the grocery store to buy biscuits or pound cake, cheaper, you have all of the ingredients in your house already (if you’re not a bachelor), and there are no artificial ingredients or preservatives. I’ll post my mother-in-law’s recipe on my “Recipe Page” in a few days. Cut the biscuits in half, spoon in the fresh mashed up strawberries, put the top of the biscuit on top, then more strawberries, and Whipped Cream is optional (also on Recipe Page).
Make extra biscuits so that you can have more for breakfast.
Once a year, or twice a year, in August when the local corn is ripe and picked daily, and you can almost smell it from your car when you pull into the roadside market, have nothing but Sweet Corn for dinner. Eat it until you groan with contentment.
Once a year, or twice if you like, have nothing but fresh blueberry pancakes (or shortcake) for breakfast. Put mashed blueberries on top of the pancakes that you have already put blueberries into. Put them in yoghurt.
You get the idea. You don’t have to have a square meal every day. When food is fresh, just hour old, gorge on it. I like to think of it as excess in moderation. And as long as it is fresh it is guilt free.
posted by Maggie The LadyHawk | 2:04 PM
2 Comments:
I do this with fresh Dunkin' Donuts all the time! ;)
Good job on the recipe button!!
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