Strawberries on the Brain

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Once a month I get together with some “stampin” friends for a little “party”. Our leaders do a make and take (always something super cute that I would never think of on my own) then we order stamp/scrap stuff and talk a lot and laugh a lot. Everyone in the group takes turns hosting the event and last night was my turn. It is usually very low key, we gather around the kitchen table and do our little project, and maybe snack on a bowl of M&M’s.


When I got this months Country Living magazine and there was a whole section on strawberries, and a great recipe for strawberry lemon aid, I knew I had to do something different for my party. Then to my great delight in my Kraft Food magazine there was a great recipe for a strawberry dessert. I decided I was going to do both.

I like to entertain, I don’t do it very often, but when I do I really enjoy it. I like making and planning food that people will enjoy. I even like cleaning house and decorating so everything looks nice and comfortable.

Here is a picture of my strawberry lemon aid. I have never made “real” lemon aid before, I usually use the powdered variety, so this was fun for me.

It is such a pretty pink color!

I served it in clear glass tumblers, so everybody could really see how pretty it was.

Here is my recipe for Strawberry Lemon aid:

Boil 2 cups sugar and 2 cups water, let it cool a little and pour it into a jug (or picture). Add the juice of 12 lemons and 2 cups cut up strawberries. Then add 8 cups cold water and 8 cups of ice. I sliced up two lemons to make it look pretty and tossed in a few whole strawberries.

Very easy and it makes a nice presentation.

Then I made this for dessert

I love strawberries

Here is an inside view

This little gem of a frozen dessert is really, really good!

You can get the recipe here: Strawberry Whipped Sensation

It was a wonderful evening, we had a good time. Most of my family was out of the house which makes throwing a party much easier. The two littlest punks were in bed, punk #2 was at a Birthday Party and Dadzoo had punk#1 and punk#3, they were picking up this:

More about “this” in another post.

6 thoughts on “Strawberries on the Brain”

  1. MMM! These look so delicious! I am so going to try both of them. We were supposed to plant strawberries this year but it did not happen. Hopefully we will get them in next year.

  2. As I scrolled down looking and reading, the picture of the lemonade made me really thirsty, and as I moved down the dessert made me really hungery… if only we had something that good around here…

  3. Looks so yummy! I love when it’s my turn to host for book club and I can try and make refreshments that coordinate with the theme of the book. Homemade lemonade was a hit once, whith blackberries from my yard. I just LOVE homemade lemonade!

  4. The lemonade looks yummy! I saw that desert in the magazine too and thought it looked really good. I’m glad to see that it doesn’t just look good in the pict. that “real people” can make it too. Now I’m graving strawberries!

  5. MMMM!! They both look delicious! I need to make a not to self and not read your blog when I am hungry…I am totally drooling!