This is what we ate for dessert. This recipe is simple and so yummy!
Strawberry Jello Shortcake
1 large package strawberry Jello
2 pounds fresh strawberries – washed and hulled
¼ cup sugar
1 – 12 ounce container extra creamy Cool Whip
1 angel food cake
Prepare Jello as directed on package; refrigerate to soft set stage. Crush strawberries with a pasty blender.
Stir sugar into crushed strawberries. Stir strawberries into soft set Jello. Tear angel food cake into bite sized pieces and place in a 9X13 baking dish.
Some of you may wonder why a D.I.D. blog has so many recipes. When I was a girl, I went hungry often. One time several years ago a doctor asked me if I had a calcium rich diet when I was young. Her question made me cry because calcium was the least of my worries. I didn’t have a food rich diet. Time will tell what damage those years of malnutrition will do to my body. So far I am healthy. I pray my good health will continue. Now that I am in charge of my life, I can buy and cook anything I want. I get an immense amount of pleasure from well prepared food. I become stressed if we get low on food in our house. Because of this, our home is a house of plenty. I feed people to show my love for them. Everyone who knows me, knows that if they come to my house for any kind of party or celebration, there will be good food - a lot of it. Consider my recipes a way of me sharing love with all of you who read this blog.
3 comments:
That looks so yummy! Hope you had a wonderful Easter!
That recipe looks really good. And thank you for sharing about your need to show love through food. I'm sorry you went through that in your childhood. I cannot imagine.
thank you for leaving a comment on my blog. i have started reading your story and want to say how brave you are. nobody...nobody should every have to go through what you and your mom have gone through. how wonderful that you, YOU have broken that horrible cycle. you sound like a fantastic mom and as far as i am concerned, a hero.
i will be more aware now. i remember when i was a teenager in the 70's i went to cedar pointe (an amusement park) and on one of the rides there was a young black girl about 7-8 years old. she was sitting in one of the ride cars with a white guy who looked like a burn out, long hair, leather jacket, etc. she was sitting as far away from him in that car as she could get and had a sad look on her face. i saw them on a couple of the other rides and the picture just did not look right and i wondered what was going on. i do remember thinking "i should say something to someone" but i didn't. i regret it and have remembered it to this day. i wish i would have been braver, or gone with my gut and said something to someone. maybe things were okay and he was out with his girlfriend's daughter, but my gut tells me that she did not belong in any way to him. i was only 16 at the time but i could tell.
thank you for being the strong woman that you are. i think this blog is great therapy for you and will help you.
bless you on this journey!!!
cindy
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