primitives discuss strawberries

[franksolich]

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GoCubsGo  (1000+ posts)      Sun Apr-04-10 06:28 PM
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Anyone have a good recipe for strawberries?

The local grocery stores are having a huge glut of them, and they're outrageously cheap. I just put up several quarts in the freezer, and have two more in the refrigerator that I will eat fresh. I'll probably dip some of them in melted Easter chocolates if I can find a good mark-down tomorrow. I'm thinking of going back to get more to dehydrate. Any other ideas?

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-04-10 06:42 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
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1. I like to run them through the food processor with some sugar and then put them in my little counter top ice cream maker for a while. Strawberry granita! Really nice and refreshing.

They are really great in a mixed green and spinach salad with a balsamic vinaigrette and some honey tangerine slices, too.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 02:16 AM
THE FARMERETTE UP OVER THERE IN WISCONSIN
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5. a very easy dessert -- strawberries romanoff

A pint of cream, whipped.
A package of coconut macaroons, roughly chopped -- the hard ones work well.
1/4 cup of liqueur -- Grand Marnier, Triple Sec, brandy -- all work well.
Three cups of sliced berries, mashed slightly with a fork.

Fold it all together. Taste for sweetness -- add some powdered sugar if desired.

Chill for a couple of hours.

GoCubsGo  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 10:09 PM
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11. I was hoping for some uncommon ideas.

I didn't even think of using them in a salad. I have a recipe of that sort around here somewhere...

The granita sounds great, too. A nice alternative to ice cream. Thanks!

beac  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-06-10 12:01 PM
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13. They really are yummy in salads.

I especially like strawberries, feta and a nice balsamic dressing. Add nasturtium flowers and it's almost too pretty to eat.

The empressof all   (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-04-10 07:58 PM
THE IMPERIOUS PRIMITIVE
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2. Make strawberry crisp....

Yummy! I don't have a specific recipe--I throw them together all the time and I don't measure. If you google you'll get a slew of recipes for crisp, cobbler, and claufoutis

I also just throw them in the blender with milk, almond milk or soy milk with a little honey and a few Ice Cubes.

They freeze great. Freeze them in a single layer then you can just toss them in a big bag and they'll keep for a long time.

I just eat them with everything until I get sick of them

pengillian101  (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-04-10 09:37 PM
THE ANTI-TANGERINE LABAMBA PRIMITIVE
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3. Freezer jam!

Making Strawberry Jam

Strawberry jam is easy to make! You can freeze the berries to make jam later if you don't have time to make it now. Make sure you measure the fruit before you freeze it.

Each box of pectin gives recipes for jam making. Ball, Sure-Gel or Kerr brands have all worked well for me. Cooked jam calls for 5 cups of crushed berries per batch. Freezer jam calls for 2 cups fruit per batch. A 5 quart pail of berries will yield approximately 10 cups of crushed fruit. Consult your recipe inside the box of pectin for exact amounts.

Oops!

If you should happen to undercook your jam or use too little sugar it won't jell up as firmly as you might like, but failed jam makes the greatest strawberry syrup on earth!!

http://www.nordicridge.com/strawberries/all_about_straw...

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-04-10 11:01 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
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4. Great idea, gilli!

One of the best and most delicious ways to make use of extra strawberries.

pengillian101  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 11:45 AM
THE ANTI-TANGERINE LABAMBA PRIMITIVE
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8. Freezing berries for Jam 

I forgot to include this part:

"How to Freeze Strawberries

Unsweetened: Pack whole, sliced or crushed berries in freezer containers. With this method there is some loss of flavor. Mainly used for berries you will later use for jam.

Dry sugar pack: Place whole, sliced or crushed berries in a bowl. Sprinkle sugar over berries, using 3 - 6 Tablespoons of sugar for each quart of berries. Mix gently until sugar dissolves. Set aside until juice forms. Package and freeze. This method yields berries acceptable for desserts as well as for jam.

Syrup pack: Make a syrup using 1 1/4 C. water to each cup of sugar. Pack berries in containers, cover with cooled syrup, using 1/2 to 2 C. syrup per pt. of berries. Label and freeze. Traditionally the best method for preparing strawberries for dessert purposes, but it does use the most sugar."

http://www.nordicridge.com/strawberries/all_about_straw...

How ya doing hippywife now that spring is officially here? I saw your pretty little flowers in the photo section. This is my favorite time of year.

GoCubsGo  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 10:08 PM
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10. I usually freeze them on a cookie sheet.

I line the pan with wax paper, and then spread out the berries, making sure they touch each other as little possible. After they are frozen, I put them in a Ziplock bag. That way, they don't stick together, and I can use as many or as few as I wish.

Usually, with the frozen berries they wind up in smoothies. I like to use frozen fruit, especially in summer. It's like having a milkshake or slushie, depending whether I use milk or juice.

Tesha  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 08:32 AM
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6. If you have a few minutes...
 
go to http://www.epicurious.com/recipesmenus/advancedsearch

and type in strawberries and choose an unusual category - there are some amazing ideas

like

Strawberry Preserves with Black Pepper and Balsamic Vinegar

Read More http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Strawberry...

Have fun!

we have a bit of a wait for our strawberries here... I can't wait!

DrDan  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 09:08 AM
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7. here is my favorite recipe

wash

eat

$10 a flat here. Have bought 2 in the past few days. Cleaned and froze a lot . . . but mostly eating them. In a bowl with a touch of sugar. On cereal. On angel food cake.

mmmmm mmmmm - hard to go wrong

GoCubsGo  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 10:12 PM
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12. I can only eat so many of them fresh

Especially since they tend to not be all that sweet. I froze a lot, and dipped a bunch in dark chocolate. Dove dark chocolate Easter eggs, half price, melted in the microwave. Just have to make sure the berries are good and dry, or the chocolate seizes up.

DrDan  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-06-10 12:24 PM
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14. well - the season here in Florida is short this year. So I am eating them a couple of times a day and freezing quite a few.

I do really like them in home-made yogurt - that is the prime use of the frozen ones throughout the rest of the year.

cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 07:29 PM
THE BAYER ASPIRIN PRIMITIVE
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9. Strawberry shortcake (using Bisquick and real whipped cream) and strawberry daiquiris are my two favorites!

undergroundnomore  (231 posts)     Fri Apr-09-10 09:54 PM
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15. thanks for posting this

I was also looking for some strawberry recipes

Mole.  How much does anybody want to bet?

[NHSparky]

Doesn't matter, but the OP is correct...despite the horrible weather in parts of Florida this winter, it didn't affect the strawberry crop, to the point I really don't want to grow them this year, and instead just go get several pints of berries and freeze them.

[GOBUCKS]

Did DUmmy hippywife really get Wild Bill to spring for a food processor and an ice cream maker? Or is she perhaps lying, all the time?

[NHSparky]

WTF is she using a food processor for?  Dammit, you make strawberry ice cream, you use WHOLE berries, or at the worst sliced ones!  What kind of sick bastard puts puree in ice cream?

[franksolich]

Did DUmmy hippywife really get Wild Bill to spring for a food processor and an ice cream maker? Or is she perhaps lying, all the time?

What I'm guessing is that Mrs. Alfred Packer used her weekly allowance from Wild Bill to get these at online Goodwill auctions; about ten bucks apiece sounds like what one would pay, used, from a thrift store.

Mrs. Alfred Packer brings home circa $200 a week from the local nursing home, which Wild Bill immediately expropriates, so as to bail a brother or brother-in-law out of the local hoosegaw, and gives his wife a $10 weekly allowance, paid with a counterfeit $10-bill.

Alas, notice the dates of Mrs. Alfred Packer's comments; this was just before Mrs. Alfred Packer and Wild Bill do Easter came out, and Mrs. Alfred Packer hasn't been seen in the cooking and baking forum since that latest sex novella came out.

Either Wild Bill, who's very possessive of his wife, now forbids her to hang around the cooking and baking primitives, or he ate her.

[debk]

I made strawberry cupcakes last weekend. Pureed strawberries in both the cake and the cream cheese frosting.  

It's a Paula Deen recipe....need I say more?  

I love strawberry freezer jam and haven't made any in several years....may have to do some this year. Easy and it's soooo good.  


I can't imagine putting strawberries in a food processor unless one want's them to be totally pulverized. I puree them in the blender while frozen so that they are sort of chunky.

[franksolich]

I made strawberry cupcakes last weekend. Pureed strawberries in both the cake and the cream cheese frosting.  

It's a Paula Deen recipe....need I say more?  

I love strawberry freezer jam and haven't made any in several years....may have to do some this year. Easy and it's soooo good.  

I can't imagine putting strawberries in a food processor unless one want's them to be totally pulverized. I puree them in the blender while frozen so that they are sort of chunky.

Because I don't like eating solid foods in hot weather, if it's fruit--rather than vegetables--that I'm making to drink, I toss everything from apples to oranges to peaches to kiwis to pears to cherries to strawberries to watermelon to canteloupe into the blender--whatever's in the refrigerator and freezer--to liquify them.

No additives such as sugar; maybe a quarter teaspoon of water, if needed.

But raw strawberries are good too; better than potato chips.

[debk]

Because I don't like eating solid foods in hot weather, if it's fruit--rather than vegetables--that I'm making to drink, I toss everything from apples to oranges to peaches to kiwis to pears to cherries to strawberries to watermelon to canteloupe into the blender--whatever's in the refrigerator and freezer--to liquify them.

No additives such as sugar; maybe a quarter teaspoon of water, if needed.

But raw strawberries are good too; better than potato chips.

Strawberries dipped in chocolate and eaten immediately....

I think they get nasty if they sit for very long....I don't like them squishy.

[franksolich]

Strawberries dipped in chocolate and eaten immediately....

I think they get nasty if they sit for very long....I don't like them squishy.

I dunno; I suppose it's a matter of taste.

Chocolate-covered cherries, yes, chocolate-covered strawberries, definitely no.

If they get squishy or moldy, just toss them into a blender, and drink them.

[debk]

I dunno; I suppose it's a matter of taste.

Chocolate-covered cherries, yes, chocolate-covered strawberries, definitely no.

If they get squishy or moldy, just toss them into a blender, and drink them.

I'm the reverse of you....chocolate-covered cherries...only if they are fresh bing cherries. Those maraschino ones with the white stuff around them then dipped in chocolate....yuk. M loves them.... :clueless:

[franksolich]

Those maraschino ones with the white stuff around them then dipped in chocolate....yuk. M loves them.... :clueless:

It's probably a man thing.

[debk]

It's probably a man thing.

Must be....T likes them too, and he rarely eats chocolate.

[The Village Idiot]

Doesn't matter, but the OP is correct...despite the horrible weather in parts of Florida this winter, it didn't affect the strawberry crop, to the point I really don't want to grow them this year, and instead just go get several pints of berries and freeze them.

They had too good a strawberry crop apparently. I read that farmers were plowing half their crops back under because prices were too low.

[NHSparky]

It's probably a man thing.

Nope--it's not a man thing.  I like the chocolate covered strawberries, white or milk chocolate.  When I lived in CA, they had several strawberry festivals, and those were always big sellers...berries bigger than a golf ball, rich chocolate...mmmmmm....

[The Village Idiot]

Strawberry, whipped cream...

[GOBUCKS]

Not long ago, there was a thread at the DUmp where a whole troop of DUmpmonkeys was howling about those huge tasteless strawberries that are sold at every grocery store year 'round. It was another sign that Big Berry was destroying our food supply. Now in this thread, there isn't a peep about Big Berry. What's up? Did Skimmer conduct a quiet purge of berry critics?

[BlueStateSaint]

Did Skimmer conduct a quiet purge of berry critics?

He did a berry good job, didn't he?

[franksolich]

Not long ago, there was a thread at the DUmp where a whole troop of DUmpmonkeys was howling about those huge tasteless strawberries that are sold at every grocery store year 'round. It was another sign that Big Berry was destroying our food supply. Now in this thread, there isn't a peep about Big Berry. What's up? Did Skimmer conduct a quiet purge of berry critics?

You know, sir, I remember that.

Last year.

My fellow alum may very well have purged the strawberry critics.

[miskie]

phooey - now I want cherries - only problem is I'm quite allergic to them. I need to have a balsamic vinegar chaser after eating them to counteract the throat swelling.

[crockspot]

Hmmm... I haven't noticed any strawberry glut up this way. Oranges were pretty cheap the last two months though.

[BlueStateSaint]

Hmmm... I haven't noticed any strawberry glut up this way. Oranges were pretty cheap the last two months though.

Damn things are all over the place down here.  I'm only 150 or so miles south of ya, too.