etsy love..

Here are some of the goodies from Chelsea's Etsy shop Oh My Deer Handmade.  (Blogger that I met at Gen's)

shopping bloggers

Where can you find 6 bloggers on a Saturday morning.  Gen's tag sale!  It was such a treat to walk in and meet blogger friend Ann from Hill Country House all the way from Texas!  Local friends Melodie from Pink Cupcake Vintage and Sara from Party Perfect were there.  And I met Tec Petaja and Chelsea from Oh My Deer blog.  (I will have to do a post about this beautiful and talented couple.)

facebook

Thought you might like a chance to win some free goodies.  Just log onto facebook and select "like" at the top of our Kayce Hughes/Pears + Bears page.  This automatically enters you into our drawing.

Five winners will be randomly selected on Wednesday May 19th.  One card per winner.

If you are a blogger and you put this on your blog.  Just let me know and you will get 10 chances to win!

house perfect

My friend Sara from Party Perfect and Hicks Paper Goods is putting her house on the market!  Like everything that she does, this is a beautiful gem.  Hurry up I bet it will be snatched up soon.

thank God it's Tuesday

I never ever watch TV.  (too busy blogging) but I haven't missed 9 by design.  I love it.  Less than an hour away.  Are you going to watch it?

not your average estate sale

My friend Gen has moved from the log house (cookie magazine) back to the above house (domino magazine).  They are unloading tons of treasures that they had in storage.  Hope to see you there on Saturday!

 Where: Sohr House

4020 crestridge drive

nashville, tn

37204

When: May 15th, 2010, 12pm - 3pm

strawberry shortcake

I am totally in love with this recent painting by Jacqueline Gnott.  What could be more perfect in my green and red kitchen?  You can start bidding on ebay tonight.

It reminded me that I had promised a reader that I would post my favorite Strawberry Shortcake recipe.  It is from The Gourmet Cookbook.  

3 pints strawberries (2 1/4 pounds) hulled and quartered

1/3 cup granulated sugar, or to taste

1 cup very cold heavy cream

1/3 cup sour cream

1 1/2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

1/2-1 teaspoon vanilla extract

8 cream Biscuits

Gently mash strawberries with granulated sugar in a large bowl with a potato masher just until berries release their juices, beith careful not to crush them to a pulp.  Let stand at room temp, stirring occasionally, for 1 hour.

beat heavy cream, sour cream, and confectioners' sugar in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until cream hods soft peaks.  beat in vanilla.

split biscuits with a fork and arrange bottom halves on eight plates.  spoon strawberry mixture over them.  top with some whipped cream and arrange biscut tops on cream.  serve remaining cream on the side.

cream Biscuits:

2 cups white lily or all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 cups heavy cream,plus additional for brushing

Put a rack in middle of oven and preheat oven to 425 F.  Lightly butter a baking sheet.  

sift together flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl.  add cream and stir just until a dough forms.  gather dough into a ball and gently knead 6 times on a lightly floured surface.

Pat dough into a 10-inch round.  cut out as many rounds as possible with lightly floured cutter and invert rounds onto buttered baking sheet.  gather scraps, pat our dough and cut out more rounds in same manner for a total of 8 rounds.  brush tops of rounds with cream and bake until pale golden, 15 to 20 minutes.  transfer biscuits to a rack to cool.