MEwx Dangerously hot all day with 2 versions of Strawberries Romanoff

Good morning Augusta.

I’ve put up a new Ambient WS 5000 weather station and you can view it’s real time readings online by clicking  here.

This morning we have Partly sunny SKIES WITH Isolated showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Dangerously hot with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy conditions during evening hours, becoming mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds around 10 mph gusting to 25 mph.  Heat index values in the lower 90s early in the evening. This is dangerous heat folks, don’t mess around.

The wind direction is East Southeast between 0.0 MPH and 2.9 MPH.

We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours.

The Relative pressure is 29.75, the Absolute pressure is 29.55 and rising with a weather graphic indicating bright sun and some clouds.

The outdoor temperature is 79.2°F, the dew point is 68.2°F, the heat index is 80.2°F and the humidity is 69%.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with bright sun and a very few clouds.

The current Solar Radiation reading is 605.7W/m2, the UV Index is 5 placing the average person at high risk, the moon is 17% illuminated, the moon is  waning crescent, sunrise is 5:18 AM, sunset is 8:14 PM, moonrise is 1:27 AM, Moonset is 5:34 PM and we’ll have 14 hours 56 minutes of daylight today.

The next FULL MOON is August 11 with the next NEW MOON being July 28.

 

This cold treat for really hot days has two versions, one for kids and one for us grown-ups. Say, do they still refer to those of us “over the hill” people (over the age of 30) as grown-ups, or has that term been changed to something degrading like everything else now?

 

Strawberries Romanoff

(This version for kids)

1 quart fresh whipping cream

2 quarts fresh cleaned and sliced strawberries

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup strawberry Schnapps

1/4 cup white chocolate shavings

French vanilla ice cream

First, heat up the Schnapps and reduce to one half cup.  This cooks out the

alcohol content and concentrates the flavoring.  After it has cooled, add the

strawberry slices and let set a couple of minutes.  Meanwhile, whip up the

cream in a medium bowl with the sugar until you have stiff peaks.  Slowly

fold in the berries and juice then ladle into individual glass serving cups

and top with some white chocolate shavings. 

 

*For Adults*

Repeat the foregoing with the following changes;

Do not cook down the Schnapps, simply warm it up a little. This will retain the alcohol content.

Next, soften up a half gallon of French Vanilla ice cream and whip it together with the whipped cream mentioned above in the children’s version. After you have it well- mixed to “stiff peaks”, begin to layer into a large bowl the Strawberry mix on successive layers of ice cream/whipped cream, then sprinkle shaved white and dark chocolate on top.  

this is NOT what you would call a “healthy” dessert. But who cares! It’s the adult version and we get to do what we want.

After all, wasn’t it a bit like this that evening down on beer-can beach 9 months before your first child was born?