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Dabble st.louis1/1/2024 Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes (less for individual pans). With the mixer on low, add the flour in 3 parts and the milk in 2 parts, alternating between the two until combined. ![]() Add the eggs and yolks, one at a time, beating well after each and add the vanilla. Using an electric mixer on high, beat butter and ½ cup sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt together, set aside. ![]() Butter the bottom of an 8-inch pan with removable bottom (a tart pan perhaps) or use individual pans. ½ cup milk (I used 1% but whole is recommended)ġ lb. I also added a mashed strawberry puree to the bottom layer so that more juice would be absorbed by the cakes. I made half of this recipe for individual cakes and it was delicious. If I were you, I would make my own whipped cream (it’s in this recipe) and I would take advantage of the strawberries out right now. I began to wonder if it could be too early for this summery dessert but then the temps were in the 60’s and suddenly, I was good to go. I knew I had a recipe from Chocolate Shaving’s blog (adapted from a Martha Stewart recipe) for such a treat. so I grabbed a few containers and planned to make strawberry shortcake. I bought strawberries, gorgeous berries for less than $2/lb. I’m not kidding either, the stores in our town are noticeably more expensive than anywhere we’ve ever lived. I won’t go there every week but it’s a rough time to buy fresh, local ingredients since none of the farmer’s markets in the area are open for another month or so but this store does provide some local options. It’s not evil, it’s affordable with great products, service and people who are almost always friendly and if you know me, that’s a rare judgment that I make in the state of Minnesota. I feel like I’m going to be attacked by some people for supporting this store, as if it’s evil. ![]() I’d never heard of it until we moved here and no, I am not connected to them somehow. You might be familiar with it if you live in the Midwest-they have 220 stores. They also have a gas station that will take 10 cents/gallon off with a HyVee receipt…nice. There is an employee-owned grocery store called HyVee that has a great, affordable produce section (the deli, organic and meat areas are awesome too). Now that spring begins tomorrow, I want to go back again. This is a town that we used to venture to every week or so but we stopped and began buying more expensive groceries in our town so that we wouldn’t have to drive far in the winter. Last week, we went to a grocery store in a town about 15 minutes from us. The job he has now soon will not pay the bills and the notice that raises will not be given for a year (unless a miracle profit happens) seals that we will be in trouble in a few months. and is connected as a sales member for Greg’s company, I think) that it sunk in that we go well together.īefore, he was building guitars and making furniture, more of an artistic thing than a profitable career…although we’d give what we have and do now up in a heartbeat if he could have a company of his own that we could both pour our hearts into and only if it pays the bills. Something makes me think that she goes to this restaurant every day to chat with someone.Īnyway, I knew there was a connection but it wasn’t until his trip, with the places he visited and the way the rep responded to me as a food enthusiast (she works for a restaurant service company that sells dinnerware, cookware, stoves, etc. On our way home to Indiana last year an older woman asked him if he was looking for some gum, which began a nice conversation with this lonely, charming woman in Illinois. ![]() Sometimes he hands out his card and adds the client’s name to a catalog mailing list. Whenever we go out to eat, he looks at the benches and chairs to see how they were designed and put together. They’ve had some big chain and smaller fine dining clients, along with companies not related to the food industry. He is the “wood engineer” for a company that makes restaurant furniture. For the first time, I thought about Greg’s career and my aspiring foodie career and how they go hand in hand in a way.
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