I ate strawberry cobbler for dessert after breakfast the other day.
Don’t knock it. Who says you can’t eat dessert with breakfast?
I stopped by The Cupboard Restaurant to try the $6.99 breakfast anytime special: two eggs, biscuits or toast, and two pieces of sausage or bacon.
I remembered being told about The Cupboard’s strawberry cobbler and that it was only served on Wednesday — the day I was there. Hooray!
Cobbler is a favorite and I’ve had almost every flavor, including chocolate cobbler at Clancy’s Cafe in Red Banks, Mississippi. The peach cobbler at The Cupboard is delicious.
Well, The Cupboard’s strawberry cobbler is delicious, too. The server offered whipped cream on it, but I wanted to taste it without anything, including ice cream, although both toppings were so tempting (and even the idea of adding coffee creamer as my dad used to do).
I asked The Cupboard’s owner Charles Cavallo about the history of the strawberry cobbler. Cobbler was served at The Cupboard before he bought it in 1991, Cavallo says, but he expanded the flavors, which at one time included plum.
Peach cobbler is served on Sundays and Tuesdays, apple on Monday, blackberry on Tuesday, and strawberry on Wednesday. Friday is homemade banana pudding day.
Who makes the strawberry cobbler? “My cooks that have been there forever,” Cavallo says. “I told them I loved strawberry cobbler and they put it together and that’s what we got.”
But where did he come up with the idea for strawberry cobbler? His grandmother made it in Drew, Mississippi. “I had it years and years ago and I always loved it.”
So, how close is The Cupboard’s strawberry cobbler to Cavallo’s grandmother’s? “Tastes like my grandmother’s. Sure does. Absolutely.”
But what about the plum cobbler? They quit doing it because they couldn’t get plums anymore. In the meantime, I’ll just dream about what it might taste like. With or without whipping cream or ice cream. Or coffee cream.
The Cupboard Restaurant is at 1400 Union Avenue; (901) 276-8015
