Saturday 30 April 2011

How do you like your strawberries?

This is the first proper picking of the year, last week we only had half a dozen at a time, but today I've just picked these....400 grams.



So how do you like your strawberries?  Sliced and sprinkled with sugar?  Sliced in a brown bread sandwich?  Dipped into sugar and cream and eaten whole?  We're trying something new today, using up yesterdays doughnuts.  I don't often buy cakes but saw the doughnuts in the panaderia when I went in,  gave them a gentle squeeze to make sure they were soft doughnuts not hard ones (Spanish cakes can be very dry - nicknamed dustnuts in this house) and bought a bag of 6.

Yes, they were soft but not as doughy as hoped for.  Very sugary and ok dunked into a mug of tea but not amazing.  I was going to keep them till Sunday evening and add jam and custard to them for a pudding but then when I picked the strawberries this morning John said why don't we slice the strawberries over slices of  doughnuts then when the strawberry juice starts to run, it'll soak nicely into the doughnuts and soften them.  Then we can add cream to the top  - just in case there aren't enough calories already! 

I've only done half the strawberries and one doughnut each - if it's scrumptious we can have the rest tomorrow, if not it'll be back to plan A:  add jam and custard to make a sort of hot trifley thing with just the doughnuts and enjoy the strawberries on their own.

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