Un-Bleched
Published March 28, 2007 by CabledSheep
I will not be defeated. Not by some stupid tasteless strawberries.
Arming myself with the Internet and one of my favorite websites, I searched for strawberry recipes and came up with this one for Strawberry Bread. It sounded pretty good, and I actually had the ingredients on hand (very important - I had no plans to leave the house on this cold, snowy day). Although I really like to cook, I rarely bake. It’s not that I don’t like to bake, and it’s certainly not that I don’t like eating baked goods. But they’re not exactly healthy. And my willpower is weak - if there are goodies in the house, it’s nearly impossible for me to stay away from them. I figure it’s better for me to go buy one yummy bakery item occasionally, rather than having a whole recipe full of them in the house staring at me. Calling to me. Singing their siren song. So as a result, I usually don’t bake unless it’s for other people. But because I don’t bake often, I don’t always have everything I need on hand, or if I do, it’s too old to use. But today I was in luck, so it wasn’t long before strawberry bread was in the oven.
The result? Well, it’s an okay way to use up strawberries, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to make the bread otherwise. But it’s good enough, and I’m sure it will be even better with a schmear of cream cheese. (What isn’t?)
Unfortunately, it only used 2 cups of the strawberries, leaving me with still another 4 cups to go.
So I decided to just chop and mash them up a bit, sprinkle them with some sugar, and add a splash of Cointreau. Voilà! Strawberry sauce. And pretty damn tasty. Too bad I don’t have some of Gwen’s lemon sponge cake from last night, this would be fabulous over it. I’d make some shortcake, but I used all my flour in the bread. Well, I guess it will just be ice cream topping. Or maybe I’ll warm up some slices of the strawberry bread, and top it with the sauce. Excuse me while I go eat.
Filed under Food and Drink
Cabled Sheep lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she enjoys knitting and munching veggies out of the garden.
Sounds good…especially with the Strawberry Sauce. Yummmmm!
I hate when lovely looking fruit is a disappointment. It’s peaches I have a problem with. I really look forward to eating one and then it’s all mushy - yuk!
The strawberry sauce sounds really good though!