Strawberry Buttercream Cupcakes

These delightful gems are sweet, buttery, fluffy, and filled with strawberry flavor.  Vanilla hot milk sponge cake topped with a dollop of strawberry jam, then cloaked in a swirl of strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream.  The key to the cupcake’s lovely strawberry flavor is powdered freeze dried strawberries. The hot milk sponge cupcakes are easy to…

Zingy Strawberry Smoothie

This delicious, zingy smoothie is one of my favorites, and for several reasons. Most important to me, it tastes fabulous — tart, sweet, creamy, a little spicy, and richly scented.  And it’s a quick charge up for those mornings when I need to eat and go.  But here’s the fun part — it has health…

Buttermilk panna cotta with Strawberries, Port, and Black Pepper

I recently published a panna cotta recipe, but feel the need to share this new edition.  The reason?  Strawberries.  That, and some sort of flavor magic happened in my mouth when I tasted it. I believe that there are some flavor combinations that are greater than the sum of their parts.  And this was one…