Max, do you remember driving through the Oxnard Plain in late spring with all its fields of strawberries? And how we would buy whole flats of strawberries right from the field for next to nothing? Remember the heady smell from miles of flat strawberry fields?
That’s all changed from our youthful days there. We were back two years ago, and much of the Plain is now planted with tacky houses. There are still some vegetable farms, but I don’t remember seeing and smelling any strawberry fields.
If you need a really simple strawberry dessert that will get raves from both men and women, try this old Southern recipe.
Strawberries with Chocolate and Rum:
2 cups strawberries
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup sweet chocolate
1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
1 tablespoon light rum
Slice the strawberries and sprinkle with sugar. Refrigerate for several hours in a covered container.
At serving time, whip the cream with a stand mixer. Grate the chocolate with a grater. Fold in the chocolate, confectioners’ sugar and rum. Place strawberries in pretty, clear glass wineglasses or bowls and serve the whipped cream over the berries. Makes 4 generous servings.
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