Where Are My Priorities?
19 June 2008
To think I had contemplated writing about how inadequate I feel sometimes in mothering a teen, when there are so much more important things I could be thinking about!
Oh well. To make up for my lack of inspired blogging, how about we make dessert?
First, wash some fresh, local strawberries:
Stem them, slice them (if they are big), and sugar them,
Let them sit for a few hours, to get the juices flowing, then ladle them over some fresh-from-the-oven biscuits:
I hope this is an adequate bribe to get you to come back to this (boring) blog.
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Peaceable Imperatrix 
seriously- i really need to remeber to stop chceking your blog if i am hungry…
since when do you read People?
We had something similar last Thursday, after picking about eight pounds of strawberries at a local pick-your-own farm. (Plus I think my daughter probably ate about at least a pound of them while we were out there.) We added fresh whipped cream to the strawberries-and-biscuits. Have you tried that addition?
That night, my husband (who does all the baking) also made a strawberry-rhubarb pie and an almond-custard-covered-with-fresh-strawberries tart. Plus we’ve had fresh strawberry daiquiris a few times in the past week, too.
Gosh, I love fresh strawberry season! Yum!
cowgirl: Sorry about that! 🙂
Split Sister: Wellllll, see, I have a yahoo page, and on that page I have these “That’s Fit” links, and I followed one about how Queen Latifah has reached her weight loss goal, which wasn’t about a specific weight, but about “getting healthy”, so she lost 5-10% of her body weight, and that linked to the original story on the People site, and it was the evening and I was tired, so I kind of just surfed around the site, and I found the report on this terrible terrible fiasco. Almost made me lose my faith in humanity, it did.
Marsha: Yes, we have done that — in fact, that is Strawberry Shortcake. For Impera’s second birthday, she didn’t ask for cake, she wanted strawberry shortcakes, so that’s what we made for all her little toddler friends. I just went with what we had on hand last night. Hence, buttermilk biscuits, but no whipped cream.
Are you making jam at all? That’s so easy, and such a great way to bring strawberries into the wintertime.
Wow, that looks great.
(Your photos are taking quite a long time to load, though … although, it might just be me 😦 )
Are those your flaky biscuits? I’ll have to try them.
Beautiful color in those strawberries! Looks quite appetizing to me.
And I an relate to the “inadequacies” you’re feeling. We all do the best we can…
That made my mouth water. And photos of food don’t often do that 🙂
Ally : Hi! Hmm, I’ll have to ask the others about photo loading. They load fine on my computer, but that doesn’t help at all!
Kathy: They’re my regular recipe, which calls for shortening rather than butter. Don’t stick shortening biscuits in the freezer, though — they won’t come out flaky, but chewy and a bit rubbery, instead. I think the freezer only works with the butter.
mizmell: Thanks! So many people on flickr boost color in post-processing. I find that mine never look as good if I start fiddling with them; so these are “au naturel”.
B: Thatis quite a compliment!
Ooh. Unapologetic midwest strawberry shortcake, sporting June Crop strawberries. Memories of grandparents and simple pleasures on summer nights that stay warm after sunset.
Thanks!
I’m really much more concerned with knowing whether you would dye your hair with pink “low-lights.” http://offtherack.people.com/2008/06/19/would-you-dye-your-hair-pink-like-lily/
They did it again! and my strawberries are not yet ripe! you are meanie!
😀