No recipe today, but I did want to share one of my weekend adventures. See, we somehow ended up with 3 cartons of strawberries after our most recent grocery trip. In an attempt to use up all of said strawberries before they spoiled, Andy suggested I learn to make one of her favorite strawberry vessels, angel food cake.

Well, here’s a quick recap of how it went down. Light on the words, heavy on the pictures. Sound like a good deal?

I thought so.

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I was going to try to come up with some sort of fancy Father’s Day dessert, but I knew that anything inspired by my father would involve lots and LOTS of chocolate, something that we all know I’m better off avoiding. The man loves his chocolate, bless him.

I’m one of those lucky girls who grew up with a funny, smart, and affectionate dad. He worked from home, so I when I was little, I got to spend a lot of time with him running errands, making meals, or just sitting in his office and coloring. Being an engineer, my father always loved to experiment in the kitchen, which made him an inexhaustible source of entertainment for my brother and me. I won’t go so far as to say his experiments turned out well or tasted good all the time (or even most of the time), but some of my favorite childhood memories involve his kitchen antics in some way or another. Just ask me or my brother about his prison ration pancakes, or that one time he tried to hard-boil an egg in the microwave (BOOM!), or the infamous Peeps in the Blender incident.

I think it’s fair to say that my father helped shape my approach to cooking and eating more than anyone else in my life. So today, even though we’re 3 time zones apart, I thought I’d honor him by preparing one of his culinary inventions, which incidentally also happens to be one of my favorite childhood meals.

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