Anyone have a favorite recipe for any kind of strawberry dessert?

Really good strawberries.

Wash. Serve. (Add sweetener if you absolutely insist.)

Dana: strawberry shortcake made with only-a-little-sweetened homemade biscuits, which you butter when they are just out of the oven, and top with strawberries that have been cut and tossed with sugar and left to bleed for a couple of hours. NOM.

Or: cut up the strawberries, spread them in a baking dish, top with sour cream and some brown sugar, and then broil for a few moments. The brown sugar caramelizes and it's awesome.

I did refuse to go for a run today on the grounds of it being too hot and sunny outside.

I did run, but it was at 8:30 and it wasn't too hot yet. But it was the first time all summer I wore my shorts and a running bra top (instead of a t-shirt). It was nice, but I wouldn't want to run now.

I'm supposed to be writing but I want a glass of wine, but all I have in the fridge is Prosecco and it seems indulgent to open it just for myself. And it's too hot for red wine (of which I have plenty).

I did run, but it was at 8:30 and it wasn't too hot yet.

There's an 8:30 in the morning??? I kid. I'm just not functional for more than getting coffee at that time of day, usually.

On Saturdays I usually run earlier than that, but I was on travel this week and really needed to sleep in.

If I don't run in the morning, I pretty much don't run. I used to not be able to run in the morning, but I've been doing it for four years now and I've mostly adjusted. At least once I've done it, I'm done and I can feel self-righteous all the rest of the day...

If I don't run in the morning, I pretty much don't run.

Which is the same for me, and when I had a day job, I could run at 6:30 am no problem. Well, with little problem. And now, NSM. Which is why I just put a whole bunch of cheesy Crunch videos on my Netflix queue, on the theory of "At Least It's Something".

I've decided I prefer Central Florida humidity to NYC humidity as the former is much much cleaner humid air. The perpetual layer of sweat is far better than the perpetual layer of sweaty grime.

My ex once described walking in a NYC summer as like being breaded and deepfried.

strawberry shortcake made with only-a-little-sweetened homemade biscuits, which you butter when they are just out of the oven, and top with strawberries that have been cut and tossed with sugar and left to bleed for a couple of hours. NOM.

This, but with whipped cream, is exactly what I was going to suggest.

I can do that. I have whipped cream.

...anyone have a favorite basic biscuit recipe?

And you say you're from New Orleans? (I make Joy of Cooking's Baking Powder Biscuits with a little added sugar. And don't butter then for shortcake.)

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