Gleanings of Wheat

This is awesome looking, and really, who doesn't love strawberries & brownies? 1 box prepared brownie mix 1 jar of frosting fresh strawberries sucker sticks In a greased mini muffin tin, make the brownies. Remove, let cool on a wire rack. Frost. Stick a sucker stick through a strawberry and into a brownie bite. Cover and refrigerate until serving.

I planted one strawberry plant and one raspberry plant this year in addition to my hordes of pepper and tomato plants - well Julianne and I just ate the first two ripe strawberries! They were tiny, I really should have taken a photo before consuming them, probably between the size of a nickle and a quarter but very yummy! I'm still waiting for the tomato and pepper plants to start kicking butt. Hopefully soon.

An old friend of mine once gave me a recipe for Strawberry Pretzel Salad, which is, in a word, YUM. Yesterday I made a variation of it using peaches. It didn't turn out as well as it did with strawberries because there was too much liquid, next time I'll let the peaches thaw all the way first. It still tasted good though! 2 c. crushed pretzel sticks 3/4 c. melted butter 3 tbsp. sugar 8 oz. cream cheese 1 c. sugar 8 oz. Cool Whip 1 (6 oz.) pkg. strawberry Jello (you can use whatever jello you want) 2 c. boiling water 2 (10 oz.) pkgs. frozen strawberries, partially thawed (again, whatever frozen fruit you want but with peaches I suggest thawing them all the way and draining off excess liquid) Mix first three ingredients and press in bottom of a 9"x13" pan. Bake at 350 degrees (metal pan) or 325 degrees (glass pan) 8 minutes. Let cool completely. Beat 1 cup sugar and cream cheese. Fold in Cool Whip. Spread over pretzels. Mix Jello and water until dissolved. Add strawber...