MY FRIEND, CATE........

sent me this.
uhhhhh....it was full when I got it.

There are three foods that I believe prove the existence of God.

1. shrimps

2. avocados

3. strawberries



When I was a girl, I lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Summertime meant strawberries! Wonderful, sun-ripened, ruby- red FAT ones, picked right off the vine!

I love this desert I live on, but like many other of my favorite plants, you just can’t grow strawberries here. I should say I don’t know how to. Maybe someone knows..just not me.

Anywho…….

One day recently, an unexpected package arrived in my mailbox. It came from Cate, so I knew whatever it was, was good!

And it was. It was Merry Christmas good, is what it was!

There were some of her home-made soaps and such…

and this………

this….............

this................

TREASURE!!!!!!

My mouth immediately went into salivation overdrive!

It was all I could do not to tear into those beautiful preserves and just lick them right out of the jar!

But I waited.

I made myself wait.

It was hard, but I did it.

Because………..

One of my very favorite treats, in all the world, is…….

DON’T LAUGH UNLESS YOU’VE TRIED IT!

…..hot cornbread, oozing with lots of melted real butter and then slathered with either strawberry or apricot preserves!!!!

Oh! Just thinking about it nearly makes me swoon.

Or sing.

“Ah, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!”

The next day, I just couldn't wait any longer.  So.....

I made cornbread to go with our good ol’ country meal of pinto beans and fried taters.

Desert?

You got it!

This right here!

I have to admit something. It wasn’t really ‘this right here.’ I ate all of ‘that right there’ without giving one tiny thought to taking a picture of it.

So, I had no choice.

I had to make another pan of cornbread the very next day….so I could have some more of this.

Just look at that picture!

And imagine.

Imagine the sweetness of perfectly sun-ripened strawberry preserves, made, with love, by Cate.

Then, imagine some sweet, creamy butter  …..made, I imagine, by a happy California cow.

Next, imagine, if you can, the savory crunchy cornbread as the perfect counterpoint to all that rich, sweet goodness, made by me. Not really. It’s just Jiffy corn muffin mix.

Then, imagine you've got this sitting right in front of you!

Then, imagine that you’ve died and gone straight to heaven!

Well…that’s where you’ll think you’ve gone just as soon as you get some of this delectable goodness in your mouth where it belongs!

There’s another thing I think proves the existence of God. It’s friends like Cate.


Thanks, Cate. I am truly GRATEFUL!