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Tag: Strawberry

Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie

Strawberry Oatmeal Smoothie

What do you mean, we can have our oatmeal and drink it too? 🙂 With strawberries nonetheless, which just reminds me of spring. Spring can’t come fast enough for us this year. February had been absolutely brutal with its extreme cold and mountains of snow. […]

Strawberry Chiffon Cake

Strawberry Chiffon Cake

I’ve wanted to make a strawberry-flavored chiffon cake for forever. 😀 However, it was a tad tricky trying to figure out how to introduce the flavor without compromising the structure and texture of the cake. I was a little hesitant about using fresh strawberries with their high water content for exactly this reason. Not only […]

Chiffon Cake with Strawberries and Cream

Chiffon Cake with Strawberries and Cream

Happy Fall! Yikes! Have I really been away that long? My daily schedule has been pretty hectic this school year. Between Alex’s daily lessons, driving him back and forth to therapies, piano lesson, art lesson, and not to mention other general life responsibilities and commitments, […]

Fruit Terrine

Fruit Terrine

A.K.A. Fancy Fruit Jello. 😀 That’s what it looks like to me although this version does contain more yummy goodness than your typical jello. I love summer for all the wonderful fresh fruits that are at their prime. Because of that, I normally would eat […]

Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries

Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries

Here’s what we did with the rest of the strawberries – they were dipped in melted Dove Silky Smooth Dark Chocolate. We dipped some dried apricots and pretzels as well. YUMMY!

Filled Strawberries

Filled Strawberries

  We got these strawberries from Sam’s Club last Friday. Aren’t they gorgeous? I think we got lucky for once. Sam’s probably got its shipment in that same day and was putting the strawberries out when we saw them. I haven’t seen strawberries this beautiful […]