We took our 6-year-old son to a strawberry farm today and picked 5 pounds of ripe, juicy, gorgeous strawberries. That’s about 4 pounds more than we will reasonably eat in a week, but we had so much fun watching our enthusiastic little guy examining each berry before making a careful decision about whether it would be picked and tossed into the box. I plan on freezing what we don’t eat in the next few days and using them for smoothies.
I am wondering if anyone has any great recipe ideas. I’m going to buy pound cake and heavy whipping cream tomorrow to make a shortcake dessert. Plan on grilling the poundcake (yum) and the strawberries are already so sweet and ripe that I don’t need to do anything but slice 'em.
(I have a little box of Margarita flavored Jello I’ve been saving and plan to make it with crushed strawberries, in a mold. I don’t know if adding a little airline bottle of tequila will affect the way it sets)…but for your purposes, adding strawberries to raspberry or strawberry Jello is one way to serve it. Make a trifle or parfait in tall glasses, pound cake, strawberries, whipped cream. Make skewers of strawberries, cantaloupe chunks, pineapple chunks, with a yogurt dip.
Love the skewers idea, and think my son would love to see them in his lunchbox.
Thanks for all of the ideas. May not need to come up with many creative ideas after all. Husband and son each had a big bowl of strawberries for breakfast and the box is already about 1/3 empty.
Obvious idea, but America’s Test Kitchen’s strawberry pie is a perfect showcase for great strawberries. It’s a mix of whole and pureed strawberrys that ends up looking like this. Probably slightly different and less gloppy than what people think of as strawberry pie, but great if you want to keep the flavors simple and clean and full of pure strawberriness.
Jello sets up just fine with alcohol in it. A friend of mine and I have been playing with recipes from The Jelly Shot Test Kitchen recently. I think it’s basically a matter of accounting for the liquid. I checked there for strawberry stuff when I saw this thread.
Get a bottle of creme de cacao liquor. Pour some into a frying pan and heat it up until it’s hot but not boiling. Pour in some sugar and stir until it’s dissolved.
Add a bunch of stemmed whole strawberries and stir them around in the liquor for a couple of minutes.
Fill canning jars with the strawberries and pour the hot liquor on top to cover them. Seal the jars and let them sit in your fridge for a couple of weeks.
I just chop about a pound of whatever fruit finely, add about a quarter or half cup of sugar and stew lightly for 20 minutes. Strawberries might remain a little wet and drippy, but they would taste fantastic on toast!
All the recommendations above except with vinegar. If any is left, dip in sweet condensed milk and thick cream. Nice to eat and get messy with while naked with one’s sexual partner.
