There comes a time during the summer months where you just crave strawberry shortcake. One of the problems with strawberry shortcake (for me) is that I like it with biscuits, and a nice slathering of butter on the biscuit to make a nice barrier between the strawberry juice and the biscuit. This, of course, as we all know does nothing really to stop your biscuit from becoming a soaking sponge for the strawberry juice but it does give you some time before the whole thing turns into mush.
So (besides the juice issue) the biscuits and butter are things I can’t really eat. So what are my options, angel food cake, that almond pound cake I have in the cupboard or some other craziness that might pop in my head (let’s not go there…). Since I didn’t want to go to the store and buy something (budget minded), I thought about what I had in the house. I had a Tastefully Simple party a while back and still have bunches of boxes of pound cake, scone mix and beer bread. So out comes the pound cake, which is full of butter and I should not eat.
What I have learned on my new eating journey is that sometimes you just want to have a taste of something. So, instead of making the pound cake for me to eat all by myself (and surely cause myself some damage) I would make it and bring it in to my co-workers along with the apple cider donuts that were staring me in the face demanding that I warm them up and pop them in my mouth!
Anyway! So Tastefully Simple has a great almond pound cake recipe that I baked. But I wanted to add something to my strawberries. At this point they were just berries and sugar, which is a great combo, but I wanted something a bit more. So I started to think of different strawberry mixes I have heard of, basil, balsamic reduction? I saw a lot of recipes that said to add lemon. Which got me thinking of all of that lemon thyme I have growing in the garden (I made a wonderful lemon thyme pound cake that I just realized I never blogged about!).
So off to the garden I go and grab some lemon thyme, which I then promptly add to my strawberries. Let me tell you what I lovely addition that was. It was simple, but gave the strawberries a punch of lemon and the freshness of the herb.
That night I had a slice of the pound cake and some strawberries and thyme and was able to get in my fix and make my co-workers and my body happy the next day!
willow 