I'll definitely save $5.00 and pick them myself, so long as the girl likes going!
So what does one DO with all those strawberries?
First off, you clean and freeze some.
Then you attempt to make strawberry cream scones, which sound heavenly and look easy enough - I mean, you just mix the batter and freeze it overnight before slicing and baking the next day.
Easy peasy, right?
Well, easy, yes..
The jury is out on "peasy." I - for reasons I'd like to think are more interesting than "Rachael is stupid" - believed that these wet, frozen scones would somehow maintain their scone shapes once put into a hot oven to bake.
In my defense, the scones from the Alchemist looked nicer. But she probably didn't try to cram 900 on a sheet, causing them to melt and form some sort of crazy scone Pangea, which I then had to go in and break apart with my spatula, thus leaving my rustic scones with very distinct - and very odd - borders.
But they were pretty yummy. Imagine, if you will, a muffin top without too much sugar, as is usually the case with muffins. That is these scones.
No dried out pieces of gross biscuit here. Very moist. Very good. Especially when paired with my second strawberry themed product:
Strawberry butter.
Also a recipe from The Alchemist, this butter is GREAT on strawberry cream scones, toast with a little honey, and I'm guessing pancakes and waffles. I can also attest to how wonderful it is with her strawberry bread, since I decided to make that, too.
See, it was Teacher Appreciation Week at Lilah's preschool last week, and I thought little sets of strawberry yummies for each of her three teachers would be perfect. I mean, she had a hand in them - helping me pick the berries, helping me mix the bread - so it just seemed the right thing to gift.
And of course, I wanted the packaging to be pretty (I blame this need on both my own predisposition to loving pretty packages and my friend Lauran, who has set the bar Pinterest high with her previous teacher gifts for all seasons).
In my ideal universe, I would have had three of those green berry baskets just waiting to be filled with a little red and white check or striped fabric and filled with the strawberry flavored goodies.
But I didn't have that.
I had some red paper bags and a printer and a boat-load of photos from the strawberry picking.
So I made this:
A strawberry vine card with one my favorite pictures from the day and the ever punny saying "We appreciate you berry much!"
Place in bag, fold down top, punch holes through everything and run a piece of white cording to hold it together.
Sweet!
(No pun intended)
1 comment:
As long as it tastes good...that's what I always say. I always assure the kids or Blasen, "I promise it tastes good even though it doesn't look it." Those look good. I'll have to give them a try.
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