Strawberry Custard
Well, if there’s one thing it makes sense for me to blog about consistently, it’s probably food.
Today Ricky and Leah and I continued our summer of wholesome fun with strawberry picking at Linvilla Orchards. (Well, okay, so the previous day we bought a jug of gin.) Rather than eat my quart of strawberries all for dinner, I started scheming to prepare some kind of tart. This recipe and photo helped me settle on a custard tart, and I made the pastry cream (my first) before dinner, leaving it to cool in the refrigerator. After dinner I decided to bypass the usual fussy, rolled-out pastry crust for some sort of nut-based concoction, which I put together rather hastily while in a custard tart haze. When it came out of the oven, I saw that it wouldn’t do, and mashed it up, thinking I’d find some other use for cookie-like nut crust crumbs.
Looking at that, I decided to make individual strawberry custard cups with the crumbs on top. So Leah and Ricky came over for trashy tv and custard.
And later, I used the rest of the ingredients to make four more custard parfaits in my little glass yogurt jars.
Ta da, a blog post!