Of Course You Can Have Dessert!

Desert was served at our dinner table every night after our meal. Once the dishes were washed and dried and a pot of tea was put on the table, along with a pitcher of milk,  it was time for desert.
My Mama loved desserts and would bake a pie or a pan of brownies or a pineapple upsidedown cake, a chocolate cake with milk chocolate frosting or shortcakes for strawberry shortcakes.She then would set it aside for all of us to stare at when we came home from school.

Ice cream was a staple and my mother stocked our freezer with every flavor, mine was strawberry. If you didn't like the major desert served, you could have ice cream topped with canned peaches or pears( canned was in back then). My Mama believed in desert, believed it made her children happy and sent them to bed with a full belly. Do we want to bring up the weight issue again?

Dessert time was a time, we as children cherished, there was no arguing at Mama's table when desert was served and if you did not behave you did not get any!!  Probably the hardest decision my Mama would have to make that day, taking desert away from one of her children.
Desert was not served in my grandmother's home accept on Sundays and that is why my Mama loved it so much. She vowed to have desert every night in her home and she did up until she died, when she would ask one of us girls for a "little" ice cream.

So serve dessert and make someone smile.

The above photo is me making cookies in my p.j.'s. It was a Sunday when I do most of my cookin' for the week.