Herself's Recipes

I love this dessert. Of course anything involving berries and cream is fine with me.

1 pound strawberries
Hull and slice the strawberries and toss with 1 Tablespoon of sugar

Sauce:
Combine and beat until cream is whipped and stiff
4 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 Tablespoons vanilla ( or rum or brandy or orange liquor )
1 cup whipping cream
1 Tablespoon orange zest

Add 1/2 cup of sour cream and mix well

1/2 pound of strawberry or vanilla ice cream.

Divide ice cream among 6 serving dishes
Top with strawberries
Top with sauce

The traditional recipe for Strawberries Romanoff calls for the berries to be sliced and soaked in orange liquor, then put over ice cream, and topped with cream sauce. It was probably invented by the French pastry chef Marie Antoine Careme for Russian Tsar Nicholas I.

This is a nice quick summer dish. It is something one of the local restaurants serves up.

1 pound baby portabella mushrooms sliced thin
1/2 sweet onion sliced thin
1 cup canned diced tomatoes, drained well
1 cup pine nuts
1 cup uncooked spinach packed tight

1 cup feta

1 stick butter ( 1 pound )
garlic to taste
olive oil
1 pound pasta noodles

Boil the pasta until done.

In a skillet put grated garlic and butter. Add in mushrooms, onion, pine nuts, tomatoes and spinach and cool until done.

Strain the pasta and toss with olive oil to keep from sticking ( ~ tablespoon or so ). Divide pasta among 4 bowls.

Top pasta with cooked vegetables.

Top with crumbled feta.

Serves 4