Sunday Quotes... Cloudy

"Preserve your memories
Keep them well, what you forget
You can never retell"        
 Louisa May Alcott

Strawberry Preserves.... Cloudy...warm

This recipe is perfect for those who prefer a softer consistency to commercial jam and like a spread that isn't overly sweet, what you taste is the fresh fruit!

Fresh Strawberry Spread
5 cups strawberries
1 1/2-2 cups sugar
1 T. lemon juice
1/2 package pectin
2 T. strawberry Jello

coarsely crush strawberries with a potato masher
Combine strawberries, sugar, lemon juice and pectin, bring to a boil, boil, stirring constantly for five minutes. Remove from heat add Jello and stir well.
Pour into sterilized jars and cool. store in the fridge. Makes four half pints.
Refrigerate for 24 hours before using.

Adjust sugar to your taste, and the sweetness of the fruit you are using, we like it on the tart side.
I buy pectin in bulk if you do too use a rounded 1/4 cup.

Farm Life... cloudy & cool

We have never had a cat that so many descriptive names have been given

to. "Up and Upon" would fit, as she can NEVER just sit on the plain

surface of something! You might remember last year she would climb in

the box that contained the Salton Yogurt maker while my yogurt was

incubating. I did not care to share it with her, but she never got the

point. So this year no box, and when I make it I wrap the container

with foam. Well I guess she misses her box, because she's settled for

this basket with a quilted top. It measures just 7" square! How comfortable

can that be?

 

Sunday Quotes... Sunny...warmer

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;And through the blue heavens above us,

The very clouds move on.
Heinrich Heine

 

 

Fresh Strawberry Dessert .... Cloudy.. rain likely

1 cup graham cracker crumbs

1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter
Pulse graham crackers in food processor till you get even crumbs, add flour & sugar, pulse twice add butter and pulse several time till butter mixes with crumbs.
Press into a 13x9 pan, bake at 350* for 10 minutes.

1 package Neufchatel cheese, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup cool whip (from 8 oz container)
1 tsp. Almond flavoring

Combine all in food processor bowl and pulse till light and fluffy and smooth (it doesn't take long)
Spread into partially cooled crust.
4 cups fresh hulled strawberries, slice them  over the top of cheese mixture

1 (3oz. box) instant French vanilla pudding
1 cup milk
remaining cool whip from container
mix pudding mix and milk together , whip with wire whip till starts to thicken; fold in cool whip.
Spread over strawberries. Refrigerate  at least an hour before serving.