dessert

i think it is fair to count my dessert as one of my required recipes. i know i didn't make the pound cake (my dear friend sara lee to care of that) and the ice cream was not homemade either (the wonderful mr. mattus donated his creation, haagen dazs). but, the macerated (another culinary term i enjoy saying) strawberries were all me. and i incorporated fruit salad into brunch the next day, so i'm counting the fruit.

...after reading the above paragraph i realized that the strawberries don't count. but the fruit salad will count with the pancakes (so i fulfilled my weekend recipes). i should have discussed this with m. and i will need to do a better job of keeping records of what i make.

i decided for dessert we would do something light and refreshing. my freezer is not great at keeping ice cream cold, so i picked up "single serve" ice cream cups and a pound cake (all were on sale, so i felt particularly good about my purchase). m. is not much of a dessert person (she eats the crust of pie and leaves 95% of the filling) and we have found out she does not eat pound cake. the prospect of eating it all myself sounds wonderful, but i'll restrain myself. i would give it to my mom, but she has gestational diabetes. this pregnancy is really ruining my life. just kidding, sort of (we will discuss baby names in a later post...). anyone have any creative ways of using pound cake? maybe if m. and i entertained people we wouldn't have dessert leftovers. hmmm, food for thought.

here's what we had for dessert after the meatballs: pound cake topped with macerated strawberries and coffee ice cream that i made into little egg shapes. what's the culinary technique called where you use two spoons and kind of mold the item (in this case, ice cream) to look like an egg shape (see below)? anybody?

because i am having so much trouble with inserting pictures, i will discuss brunch in my next post.