Strawberry Shortcake Saga has Happy Ending!

A few weeks ago, I was crabbing about the changing climate of biscuit-style strawberry shortcake. Since then, I've had several concerned readers express sympathy, suggest alternatives and make me some very delicious non-biscuit-style versions.

Let's turn back the hands of time for just a minute.
My strawberry shortcake obsession started a few years ago when I started dating Captain John. Captain John is a fellow "foodie". He loves to research and visit interesting places to dine and as a pilot, the world is his oyster (unfortunately, John doesn't eat oysters). John doesn't eat a lot of things...but, if it's steak, bread, potatoes or dessert--he's looking for perfection.

Before John, I didn't even know about biscuit-style shortcake. I was familiar with my mom's torte-style shortcake, I've had the poundcake-style shortcake and I knew you could buy little yellow spongy cake cups for shortcake at the grocery store. Then, I started dating Captain John and everything I knew about shortcake changed.  If Strawberry Shortcake is on the menu and the server says "biscuit", we're going to order it!

So, leave it to Captain John to hunt down one of our favorites.

He was on a trip that took him to Van Nuys, California and there was a Nordstroms nearby.
Before Junko, John didn't know about the wonderful world of Nordstrom Cafes--where food AND fashion are done well! Since Junko, John knows that he can get a reasonable priced, consistently good, well presented and satisfying meal in a comfortable setting. 

On our last visit to Nordstrom Cafe in the Kenwood Mall, outside of Cincinnati, we had our hearts set on the Triple Berry Shortcake. We were heart broken when we were told that it was taken off of the menu.  I think that was the "last straw" that prompted my shortcake rant.

So, imagine my surprise when I hear the Ting! Ting! of an incoming text message and see this message from John:

And there it was....The Triple Berry Shortcake from Nordstrom Bazille Cafe in Van Nuys, CA!

In defense of the almighty Nordstroms, they currently operate 16 styles of restaurant operations from coffee bars to upscale fine dining joints and the menus seem to vary at each location.  Must try them all and visit the shoe departments while I'm there.

Here's a link to  the Shortcake recipe from the Nordstrom Flavors Cookbook.