Notes from My Food Diary: Start of the Summer

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Start of the Summer

Where has the sun gone today? It was drizzling, the sky turned grey, and it was cold this morning that it dampened our spirits a bit. My son and I were to go on a bike ride right after breakfast but since it was drizzling, we decided that we would bake cookies first. My son has shown a great interest in cooking and baking that I think this summer he's going to do them more often.

He chose a cookie recipe that was easy enough for him to do which was a thumbprint cookies. I have a strawberry-lemon marmalade and peach-cherry-almond conserve that I think are perfect for the cookies. We did it good today; he was grinning from ear to ear posing before his creation. Afterwards, we went bike riding to the park. This bike ride has become our form of exercise of the day that I want to keep it all summer long. I sometimes even add a 4-mile walk at the track, just like what I did today.

On my last post I wrote that I made strawberry pie, but sadly that pie didn't turn out as good as I thought. The filling was weeping out of the crust when I cut a slice. I was very disappointed. My feeling was perhaps I left the strawberries too long with the sugar and cornstarch and it became too juicy. I should have used ClearJel for the filling, oh well... From the outside, it had a promising look; the crust was tender and crumbly. But no matter how bad it looks in the inside, it was great eaten with homemade whipped cream. My son suggested buying Reddi-Whip while we're buying groceries, but I couldn't bear buying it since I knew whipping heavy cream wasn't hard to do!