It’s me Ingrid – and I am eating one of my favorite desserts. I’m not sure I would have come across this particular dessert if not for our 100 mile challenge last July and August. At the time, we were eating a lot (and I mean A LOT) of Narragansett Creamery’s ricotta cheese for lunch and dinner. I really wanted something sweet one night and I remembered seeing, trying, and liking ricotta pie. I had never made ricotta pie and I couldn’t make the real thing during the challenge because of the whole crust/flour thing but I thought, I’ll add some sugar to the ricotta ( I still had some sugar therefore I was playing by the rules) and I’ll put it over some fresh berries. It became our favorite dessert last summer and I have served it over various berries throughout the year.
Well, with the pounds and pounds of strawberries mom and I picked last Friday, there were still some sliced berries in the fridge tonight. And, I still had a little ricotta left from a previous trip to Goddard State Park. So now I am happily eating (scarfing is probably a better description) fresh strawberries with some sweetened ricotta on top. It really tastes like summer for me.
-Ingrid
