Strawberries!

Good grief, what can I do with strawberries?? We had strawberry shortcake on Saturday night for dessert. And Rick and I just got back from the garden with a good 1-1/2 quarts of strawberries again. There are lots of berries up in the garden growing and ripening. We don't eat jam or preserves or anything like that.

I found a recipe for Strawberry Swirls that looks interesting. It's almost like sticky buns, but with strawberries as the filling. You make a sugar syrup. Then make the dough and knead it, roll it out into a rectangle and then place sliced strawberries on the dough. Roll it up like you do for sticky buns and cut into slices. Melt butter in a pan, then arrange the slices on the butter. Pour the sugar syrup around the rolls. Bake and serve with whipped cream. I think we'll have that as our dessert on Tuesday night.

Rick is hoping for enough strawberries this weekend to make a freezer of strawberry ice cream.

Oh man!!  I wanted to get some strawberries this weekend but the ones at the store were pricey!!  I guess I need a patch!  I used to have some growing at my mother's but they've been pulled a long time now.

I guess you could make jam to give away as gifts?  I just opened a jar today of strawberry blackberry jam my BFF gave me.  So so yummy!

I love those dessert things thats made with like a cookie crust, some kind of white cream and then fresh fruit layered in circles on the top.  I'm not sure how to describe it; I've only ever eaten it.  We usually just slice our berries and put them on cereal or in a bowl with a dollop of whipped cream as a dessert.  I've been known to eat a whole thing of them without even bothering to slice.     Chocolate covered strawberries are awesome too.  And also great for a gift.  

I've never been stumped as to what to use Strawberries for!

I freeze them and have them for dessert, either plain or served over ice cream.

I make smoothies with them

I make jam/jelly with them

I put them on and in cakes or pies

And I can just sit there and eat pails and pails of them.
 

Strawberry shakes or smoothies are delicious. You just put some strawberries, ice cream, and maybe some ice and yogurt in a blender, and blend away. The results are so much better than what you get at restaurants and fast food places!

I LOVE strawberries! How wonderful that you have your own to pick. I use them in everything I can think of. :lol3: Just the other day, I smooshed some and added them to my PB&J sandwich!! I add them to my yogurt, ice cream, smoothies, and even salads!!

LeighAnn, are you thinking of fruit tarts?

How about strawberry muffins or bread?

MoochNNoodles said:

Oh man!!  I wanted to get some strawberries this weekend but the ones at the store were pricey!!  I guess I need a patch!  I used to have some growing at my mother's but they've been pulled a long time now.

I guess you could make jam to give away as gifts?  I just opened a jar today of strawberry blackberry jam my BFF gave me.  So so yummy!

I love those dessert things thats made with like a cookie crust, some kind of white cream and then fresh fruit layered in circles on the top.  I'm not sure how to describe it; I've only ever eaten it.  We usually just slice our berries and put them on cereal or in a bowl with a dollop of whipped cream as a dessert.  I've been known to eat a whole thing of them without even bothering to slice.  

  Chocolate covered strawberries are awesome too.  And also great for a gift.  

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If you have a Krogers store, they are 4/5.00

I would love to get my hands on the recipe for that strawberry pie that Shoney's used to serve.  We don't have Shoney's around here anymore; I'm not sure they are still in business.  As for the strawberries from my garden, the lone brave squirrel took most all of them.  That's okay...I reckon he needed them more than me. 

This recipe for full octane Strawberry Salad is outstanding! If there is a way to eat butter in a salad I will find it .

Asian Strawberry Salad

Crunchy topping:

* 1 cup chopped walnuts

* 1 pack ramen noodles (yep,those noodles). Uncooked.

* 1/4 cup butter

Dressing:

* 1/4 cup sugar

* 1/4 cup canola oil

* 2 TBS. red wine vinegar

* 1/2 tsp. soy sauce

* 8 cups romaine lettuce

* 1/2 cup chopped green onions

* 2 cups sliced strawberries

* few crumbles of feta or goat cheese

Discard seasoning from noodles. Break noodles into small pieces. In a large skillet, cook dry noodles and walnuts in butter over medium heat for 8-10 mins or until golden; let cool. For dressing , whisk together sugar, oil, vinegar, and soy sauce. Just before serving combine romaine, green onions, strawberries, noodle/nut mixture and cheese. Drizzle with dressing. You may want to make extra dressing.

Everyone I know who tries this loves it.

You mentioned that you like to bake. Try a strawberry rhubarb crumble.

AbbysMom said:

LeighAnn, are you thinking of fruit tarts?
 

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I still don't know!     But I did find Betty Crocker has a whole section dedicated to strawberry desserts.  

It's got to be some kind of pie/tart/dessert pizza thing.  Whatever it is I could go for some now.  Or any other of the 300million strawberry recipes I've been browsing!

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AHA!!    I found it; basically: http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/fruit-pizza/d0a63dd9-cbcf-4186-93e5-1ab204c88a2c.  I've seen it done much prettier but this is basically what I had in mind.     I think it may have been at a Pampered Chef party that I first saw it.  Or it was made by a PC loving friend.  Either way; always good!

Mooch, that fruit pizza looks delicious! And Smitten, I've copied and pasted the recipe for the salad, too....yum! Thanks! Cook's Country has a recipe for a frozen strawberry pie that looked good. I think I need to try that. Always have strawberry muffins, too. And some Strawberry Lemonade.

Maybe I won't have any trouble using my strawberries! Thanks!

Hmmmm, what about strawberry daiquiris for dessert?

pushylady said:

Hmmmm, what about strawberry daiquiris for dessert?

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 Thanks for the idea!!!

Strawberry rhubarb pie!  We grow strawberries (though we don't get a ton) and rhubarb and I make my hubby one or two of these every Summer

I just love strawberries. And while I'm not really a dessert lover --- I just adore strawberry shortcake! Send some my way!

I went Krogering today and bought strawberries. I like them with just a tab of sugar and that's all.

pushylady said:

Hmmmm, what about strawberry daiquiris for dessert?

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Don't forget to add in some whip cream!! :lol3:

My only good dish is quinoa salad with berries and a lime balsamic dressing. Yum. Very little cooking as well.

I made the Strawberry Swirls last night and they are quite tasty! Rick just loved them; he said the recipe is a keeper. I'll post it in the Recipes section. It's kind of like a pastry dough, a little softer than a pie dough. You just make the dough, roll it out, and sprinkle the chopped strawberries onto the dough. Roll it up, slice, and place the slices into a pan of melted butter. And then pour the sugar syrup around the slices. Bake. Eat (or in Rick's case....devour). He had his with a scoop of French vanilla ice cream. And whipped cream. (I wish I could do that!)

While I was working on the Swirls, he went back up to the strawberry patch. He thinks he picked a good two quarts last night. I still had some berries in the fridge, so he took the fresh berries over to our neighbors....they seemed really happy to get them. She said she was taking them right into the house and making shortcake.

We are making homemade strawberry ice cream over the weekend!

(The plants are sending runners out all over the place in the garden. We were debating if we should cut the runners off and throw them away. We're not going to do that. We're going to let them root, then cut the runner off and let them go. So we should have a lot of plants next year....those things are really running everywhere. We need to figure out a way to get a path up the center of some of the rows though, or we won't be able to get inside the strawberry patch.)