Growing up, we had an annual Strawberry Shortcake Festival every Father’s Day weekend in June, at the country grange* just down the road from us. This was *the* event of the year on our dusty little mountain, with people coming from miles away (from The City, even, so you know it was a big deal) […]
Entries Tagged as 'dessert'
Summer Solstice Shortcake
June 20th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: dessert · recipes · traditions
holiday memories: Struffoli!
January 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
strufoli! Originally uploaded by dcaCRL I couldn’t resist the “Tastes of Italia” Christmas issue this year, which contained a recipe for this festive treat, Struffoli. A traditional Christmas Eve dessert, we served it for our interfaith Italian-Jewish “Chrismukkah” brunch — a perfect latke complement as strufoli is also fried in oil. Tastes of Italia doesn’t […]
