mother's dessert

My mom loves strawberry shortcake more than anything, dessert-wise, but Easter was so late this year that I didn't want to make anything cake-related this time around. Instead, this was my Mother's Day gift: Strawberry Meringue Pie. Similar elements, different take. At least that's what I was thinking when I chose it. It turned out to be more of a lemon meringue pie with fresh strawberries--so dad ate most of it--but let's not split hairs. It helped that it called for jarred lemon curd. One less step for me. This is a really simple pie, and best eaten the day you make it. Not that that stopped us from eating the leftovers. And I'm now on a strawberry kick. I'm hoping next month to shift that over to blueberries.