strawberries – Sadie Dishes

If you have a special guest for breakfast on the weekend, this is a simply and impressive dish to prepare for the morning hunger pangs. Take your favorite loaf of bread (in this case, I used cobblestone bread from Ward’s Pastry in Ocean City). Brioche bread also works well. Make sure you have a whole loaf so you can cut the slices extra thick. Here is the recipe to make two stuffed pieces. You can double, triple, or quadruple the recipe depending on how many guests you have to feed.

Strawberry Stuffed French Toast

Ingredients
Strawberry Cream Cheese, Two 1-inch thick slices of bread, 1 egg, 3 tbsp milk, 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon, 1 tsp vanilla extract, sliced fresh strawberries, canola oil and butter for frying

1. Make an incision in the bread to create a pocket for stuffing.
2. Stuff about a tablespoon of cream cheese into the pocket.
3. In a pie dish, mix together the egg, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla extract.
4. Soak the bread in this mixture on both sides until the egg mixture is absorbed into the bread.

5. Heat a small frying pan with one tbsp canola oil and a small pat of butter. Place the two stuffed slices of bread in the pan. Flip over after about three minutes and cook on the other side.
6. Place french toast on a plate and top with sliced strawberries. Now you are ready to enjoy this delightful treat! Happy Saturday everyone!

This week includes my favorite day of the year, so I wanted to make my favorite dessert ever. There is nothing I would rather have for dessert than strawberry shortcake. It is basically the confluence of all of my favorite foods and flavors.

While strawberry shortcake can take many different incarnations, my favorite version is a biscuit, sliced strawberries, and some home made whipped cream. This is always my preference over an actual birthday cake.

I know my mom usually makes a buttermilk biscuit recipe for the biscuits (or “shortcake”), but I decided to try Martha’s Baking Powder Biscuits this time around.

Baking Powder Biscuits

Yields 8-10 biscuits depending on size from Martha

Ingredients

4 cups AP flour
2 Tbs baking powder
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks) chilled and cut into small pieces
2 cups heavy cream
sanding sugar for garnish

Method

Preheat oven to 400.
Combine 2 cups or flour with the rest of the dry ingredients. Mix in butter so the mixture has small “pebbles” of butter. Use a blender, food processor, or hand mixer.
Add the rest of flour and mix until uniform.
Fold in cream gently until just combined.
Turn dough out and pat down to about an inch high. Use a cookie cutter or slice into desired size.
Bake 20-25 minutes. Allow to cool completely on wire rack.