frosting does a cupcake make .....

I've been cooking DeDe style (a little) lately. Which loosely translates into "the way mom used to cook" ... getting an idea of something, then throwing things together along similar lines!! My 1-eyed sailor supreme a couple days ago ... and today .... super strawberry muffins. When you live in a community that is certainly the strawberry capital of the Golden State, you take advantage of the HUGE difference between store-bought VS the right off the farm goodness of this beautiful berry. We had no sooner brought home a partial flat, when a strawberry fairy showed up at our door .... meaning MORE of this colorful sweetness to enjoy!! wooo hoooo.

SO- this morning, I whipped up a short batch of strawberry muffins. BUT when I presented a muffin to the Captain, he wanted to know where the frosting was (?) Which began a whole new conversation with my Einstein (which means he needs a haircut) .... "yeah, it may taste like dessert ... but "without frosting, it's a muffin", I replied. To which he commented that cream cheese frosting would taste r-e-a-l-l-y good on them. "yes" (I stressed), "but frosting would make it a dessert, and then you would have to wait til after lunch to enjoy it". He didn't understand or agree with that. (and let's face it .... who am I kidding? I had peach pie for breakfast a few days ago!!)