Some links may be affiliate links. I may earn money if you buy something or take an action after clicking one of these links on this site.
Rob Knowlan is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
National Strawberry Parfait Day 2025
Perfect for a 🌞 Summer 🔥 Hump 🐫 Day, today is National Strawberry Parfait Day. Get one from the grocery store or make it yourself at home, just have one.
🍓 Anthocyanins 🍓
Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging. ~David H. Murdock
Yes, for pity’s sake, eat berries. Particularly when they’re in season, berries are delicious and quite good for you.
Even if you add whipped cream and possibly crumb layers or even chunks of spongecake, a strawberry parfait is a lovely seasonal treat packed with vitamins.
The strawberries bring Vitamins A, B9, C and K.
If you include a layer of Greek yogurt, you get Vitamins A, B2, B12 and D.
Adding the cake or crumb layer brings B Vitamins and Vitamin E.
They’re part of a well-balanced meal and guaranteed to brighten your day.
🍓 DIY 🍓
Strawberry Parfait
My favorite kind of parfait is the kind somebody else makes.
It’s my least favorite season and the heat makes me lethargic, so standing around making fancy desserts when I could just grab one made by somebody else just won’t happen.
That being said, if you have the time and inclination, making a parfait can be a fun little kitchen exercise.
If you have special parfait cups, you can really go hog wild building those luscious layers.
If I had a desire to do so, I’d probably start with a layer of strawberry jam and plonk one of those little shortcakes on top.
In this tasty little cup-shaped cake, I’d add a mixture of diced strawberries in vanilla Greek yogurt and top that with sliced strawberries.
On top of that, I might shoot a layer of canned whipped cream and spread some more of the vanilla Greek yogurt and diced strawberry mixture.
To top it off, I’d probably throw some dehydrated strawberries into a blender to pulverize them into a powder that I could fold into whipped cream from a tub.
I’d take that scrumptious combo and build a speckled white, pink and red peak on the top.
Just to really do it right, I’d have some sliced strawberries arranged around the rim of the parfait cup like battlements on a castle.
So, as you can see, that’s way too much damned effort when my AC is barely keeping up with the god-awful 🌞 Summer 🔥 heat out there.
Blech!
🍓 Unbidden And Unearned 🍓
You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you’re lucky. Wild strawberries can’t be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun. ~Hope Jahren
…just like story ideas.
I don’t know how it is for you, but when I’m setting out to write the next chapter of The Sentinels: New Blood or the annual Holiday Season Serial Romances, I find that the ideas come rather like an opportune patch of ripe berries.
My style of writing is more akin to a long stroll through the forest, picking berries, than a feat of architecture.
Some people prefer the latter, but I engage in what is also known as “pantsing” (flying by the seat of one’s pants) or “gardening” (tending what comes up and shaping it into something beautiful).
I go into that world and experience the story alongside the characters.
I’ve previously described it as transcribing a movie that I’m watching in my head, but it’s actually more immersive than that. Perhaps, more like a Star Trek holodeck.
Star Trek TNG — The Holodeck
I’ve been planning some gnarly twists for upcoming chapters, but I’ve still got to get through Claudia’s pizza party before we move on to all that.
Plenty blooming this 🌞 Summer 🔥, stay tuned.
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for even more obsessing over food…