strawberries
At the farmers market today were such beautiful strawberries. They’re not local; they were grown in Santa Maria about 4 1/2 hours south of here. They weren’t just pretty, they were sweet and juicy and tasted like August. Jacob loves strawberries and was shrieking from his stroller for a “bite! bite! bite!” And when it was gone, he wanted “more! more! more!” The car smelled so good on the ride home, just like fresh strawberries.
I couldn’t decide what to do with the one basket I bought. I only knew they would get eaten tonight. I thought about getting good vanilla ice cream and slicing the berries on top. When I told Nathan, he pretty much begged for strawberry shortcake. When I asked him if he wanted to try a chocolate strawberry shortcake, he asked how good the berries were. When I told him they were fantastic, he said we should stick with a known good thing instead of trying something new.
And with that, dessert tonight was Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake.
I thought for just a second about putting some cocoa powder in Bisquick. But it only lasted a second. In the house right now, we have good quality cocoa powder, and I just couldn’t justify mixing it with Bisquick. So I did a super quick search and found this recipe. As is usual, I didn’t follow it at all. But it was a nice starting point. I ended up adding almost twice the amount of sugar (I always add extra sugar to shortcakes), and a bunch more cocoa. I’d write out the recipe that I wrote, but I have no idea what I’d write, as I didn’t measure. Big surprise.
It turned out really good. The shortcake was rich, but Nathan thought it could’ve used more cocoa. We also used fresh whipping cream, which was delicious.