Strawberry Granita....from Giada De Laurentiis "Giada's Kitchen" cookbook. I had never made a Granita before and this was Divine! Strawberry puree, mascarpone cheese, and a sugar and mint syrup. Frozen goodness!!
Strawberry Shortcake cookies from Martha Stewart Living, I think it was the June issue but the recipe is here. There is a similar peach pie cookie in her cookie cookbook that I have tried and they are sooo good. They really do taste like a peach pie. So I figured these would be tasty and sure enough, they were yummy! They don't keep for very long but that didn't really seem to be a problem. 
Of course, I had to make strawberry shortcakes themselves! ;) The shortcakes were actually starting off that night as rolls with dinner but I was digging around in Marion Cunningham's "Lost Recipes" and found a recipe for sweet cream biscuits and figures I would rather have dessert than rolls with my dinner! Strawberry shortcake is always a winner!
Hee hee, this last one is "Skywalker Smoothies"! My kids have now discovered they love smoothies if they come from the StarWars Cookbook. I will (hopefully!) get around to a full post of the recipes we have cooked so far but right now it's all about Skywalker Smoothies, lots of strawberries, bananas, and vanilla yogurt. I think I added frozen raspberries as well instead of ice. The kids can't get enough and Matthew thought is was great fun to make his action figures pose with the food! 
