{Three Years In}
My favorite early summer dessert, hands-down, is rustic strawberry shortcake: balsamic strawberries with buttermilk drop biscuits and bourbon whipped cream. We had it at our wedding. I gave you the recipe. It's easy, it's always a crowd-pleaser, and it is just so. damn. good.
But with a bumper crop of particularly sweet strawberries in the garden this year we can't bear to gild the lily, so right now we're just hulling them and serving them as-is with P's whipped cream. Perfection. Today's our third year wedding anniversary (three years already?!) so tonight we'll be eating strawberries, counting blessings. Every day with him is the new best day of my life. True fact.
My favorite early summer dessert, hands-down, is rustic strawberry shortcake: balsamic strawberries with buttermilk drop biscuits and bourbon whipped cream. We had it at our wedding. I gave you the recipe. It's easy, it's always a crowd-pleaser, and it is just so. damn. good.
But with a bumper crop of particularly sweet strawberries in the garden this year we can't bear to gild the lily, so right now we're just hulling them and serving them as-is with P's whipped cream. Perfection. Today's our third year wedding anniversary (three years already?!) so tonight we'll be eating strawberries, counting blessings. Every day with him is the new best day of my life. True fact.
Happy anniversary, L and P! To many more strawberry days.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary, Lily-cakes!! Have a wonderful day! XOXO
ReplyDeletecongrats L&P! those strawberries look crazy delicious!
ReplyDeletewoohoo! a happy day indeed.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary! Maybe strawberries should be the official 3rd year gift? :) Those look amazing, I'm so jealous at how many you guys have growing!
ReplyDeleteWonderful post. Happy anniversary to you two lovelies! Hopefully life will send that feeling to me one day. Awaking with my best friend, looking forward to adventures, old age and a bond that only grows stronger with each breath.
ReplyDeleteSo sweet. Isn't marriage the best? Happy Anniversary.
ReplyDeleteThose fab sandals you scored always make me smile. Happy-Happy Anniversary!! I'm thinking Strawberry Margaritas for those puppies. Yum...Have a wonderful, special day!!
ReplyDeletei'm glad we switched the subject to anniversaries and strawberries! (happy happy!) i was feeling deeply uncomfortable about my handbag.
ReplyDeleteand yeah p.s. i like your sandals too!
Happy anniversary, you two! Strawberries sound like a perfect way to celebrate.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary, lady!! We just had our 4th anniversary last week and I feel just like you...every day is better than the last. Enjoy those berries and each other!! xoxo
ReplyDeletehappy smasnniversary, ma choue! to think, 3 years ago i was in the hay field in a poppy colored dress watching you get hitched in yer cowgirl boots! so happy for you and P. you are a great example as how mawwiage should be and i love you both! xo
ReplyDeleteOh man! You blog is my obsession.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Lily!!! XO!
ReplyDeletehappiest anniversary - loved your wedding photos - and i'm so gonna make the strawberry shortcake - at least the biscuit part - i'm addicted to biscuits.
ReplyDeleteFlag waving, Happy Anniversary. How appropriate for you two to wed in June, on Flag Day, of all things. Mine was on a Friday the 13th, to my still bestest friend of all ages, 27 years ago on a steamy, rainbow rain soaked July evening in the Mojave Desert. True dreams be still your heart. Luscious berries are for lovers.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary, kiddos!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you guys get that many strawberries. We kept trying but the birds here are greedy - it was rare to get a berry or two before they did.
have a happy happy day with all those strawberries....yum!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the well-wishing, team!
ReplyDeletexo
aww - congrats! what an awesome way to spend it, too...those strawberries look amaaaaazing. *drool*
ReplyDeleteHave a very anniversary. May the strawberries never end.
ReplyDeletehappy anniversary, kids!!
ReplyDeletecongratulations! and that last line is quite the zinger.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary! The strawberries look delicious.
ReplyDeleteI just love strawberries- especially when they are freshly picked and it's a warm summers day.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the 3rd year anniversary :)
mm.. and congrats :)
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary!! And those strawberries look super delicious! with whip cream probably almost perfection!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day!!
Happy anniversary, lovers! Here's hoping every year's crop of strawberries grows infinitely sweeter.
ReplyDeleteBless that shortcake!
ReplyDeleteWishing you two the best on your third-sounds like you have the best kind of love.
"the new best day of my life" ~ oh love, it is so damn wonderful!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary! I'm totally drooling over the lovely strawberries :)
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary, we had strawberries today....And I found wild ones today in my garden!
ReplyDeleteLove to you both!
I really look forward to when the Strawberries are ripe again! It's winter here and the strawb's are still half a year away! But at least I can drooool over yours!!
ReplyDeleteomg i am so jealous. i wish that i had fresh grown strawberries instead of the packaged grocery store kind. they can't even compare!
ReplyDeletexo
sami
This is such an impressive strawberry haul. My leggy little plants have only produced one berry, and the cat bit off the stem it was growing on before it could fully develop.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the idea of balsamic strawberry shortcake at a wedding--a delicious and earthy dessert for such an occasion, not too fancy and ridiculous.
This is so sweet. I feel the same way about my very own sweet pea. Happy anniversary to you two!
ReplyDeletelove to you both,
ReplyDeletexoxnic.
Oh boy, amazing. Happy anniversary, hope you are enjoying all those strawberries.
ReplyDeleteoh wow.. look at that. I am so envious. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteNice photos!
ReplyDeletea belated congrats, dear lady!!
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