Mardi Gras Dessert - February 20, 2007
I think all of the Ferraras love strawberries. They are grown right up the road from Bush, LA in places called Pontchatoula, Hammond, Tickfaw, Independence, Natalbany, or Springfield. I think we have relatives still living there. The ones shown here are from Tickfaw. Louisiana strawberries don’t travel as well as their California cousins but they are a real treat. We have farmers bring their flats all up and down Louisiana highways and you can generally buy them the same day they’re picked. The season lasts from mid-February through the end of April or so. These early strawberries are the ones I like best. Patsy doesn’t care for the little pastry cups that grocers like to put next to the strawberries in the produce section for making strawberry shortcake. She prefers to use pound cake. Doesn’t matter much to me. If she’s willing to make it (Although I made the whipped cream and chopped the strawberries this time) and she’s also willing to let me eat half of it ... well, pound cake it is.
Mardi Gras Dessert - February 20, 2007
Update: I post this picture in the full realization that we only made enough for about two servings each of this stuff. It will surely be gone by tomorrow and I'll be at the local Waffle House, IHOP, or Denny's later this week paying about seven bucks for something they call strawberry shortcake. And that would be OK if I hadn't eaten this first.
Oh man do those look good. I love strawberry shortcake and wish we had fresh berries. I like to make a baking powder biscuit for strawberry shortcake with lots of whipped cream. Enjoy!
Mmmm. Yes, that does look good. You know Mama doesn't like strawberry shortcake, though she would make it for us, and mostly for Dad, who did like it.
You ought to grow some strawberries, Robbie. I had some plants that didn't die or thrive very well for three years. I am sure if I'd have taken better care of them, they'd still be around producing itty-bitties to this day.
Patsy made a pound cake? I've tried my hand at one of those. Pound of this and a pound of that, plus more on the whipped cream. Sheesh. Pounds all around. But so?! All things in balance...
A biscuit sounds good, too, Carol.
I'll never grow strawberries, Janine. They're way too much maintenance. You don't remember how much work Mr Revel used to put in to get his crop?
That looks delicious! I love to buy fresh strawberries and melting chocolate and have strawberry fondue! Strawberry shortcake is good too. Sue gave me a good recipe for pound cake. I've made it a couple of times. I like the way she serves it. She toasts the slice of pound cake in the toaster oven first and then puts on the strawberries and cream.
Looks great! I can hardly wait for our season here--usually mid June. I usually pick my own(~30#) and make shortcake,jam,and a few daiquiris. I'm sure we eat a few pounds before they are ever made into something.
Our neighbor at Mom's place in Kenner used to grow them along his back fence, Nancy. He couldn't harvest any within an arm's length of our fence, though. I didn't steal any, though ... well, not all of them anyway.