Like I didn't have a lot of stuff I wanted to do...my Dad/his wife delivered these to me this morning. They are from a strawberry farm in Milan, TN. Now....what to do...what to do....??

Ice Cream?? Preserves??? Eat raw on cereal??? Dip in Sugar????? Make a syrup for Ice cream????.....Hmmmmm....

Want some??

YUM! Yes, I want some! Send them to me in New York and I won't have to ask what to do with them :P

Vic

Ummm, Vic, I'm sorry, M'Dear, they need to be sent to ME! So sorry.

They look so yummy. We won't get ours until mid June in Rhode Island. I make strawberry shortcake. Soooo good.

I love to puree mine and mix it
in with my yogurt in the morning.
Yummy!!

One word - SHORTCAKE!!!!!

I would love one. They look so good. I would go for strawberry shortcake. Yum

Those would make some GOOD jam!
I'm jealous!!
I want some!!!

Umm Patti

They look georgous much better than what we currently are getting over here - (foreign forced fruit) It will be better once the British ones are ripe - I can't wait. In the meantime enjoy yum yum.
Have to say I like Moonpi's idea of shortcake.

Tisha

Mmmmmmmmmm nom nom nom. When we were kids Mom and Dad used to take us to 'Pick Your Own' strawberry farms. Dad used to tease me that they would weigh me on the way in, then way me on the way out to see how much I'd eaten during picking! :lol:

Nice idea....make a victoria sponge cake (ie two layers of sponge cake, can send you a recipe if you want). Using a potato masher, mash a couple of generous handfuls of strawberries in a bowl (helps if you chop them in half first). Then press this through a seive so you are left with strawberry syrup and strawberry mush. Add the syrup to some whipping cream and whip until nice and stiff. Use the mush and a little of the strawberry cream to sandwich the two layers of sponge together. Use the rest of the strawberry cream to decorate the cake, using a piping bag or just slathering it on with a palette knife! :lol:

I always do this for my Dad's birthday!

Mary - when I used to go PYO as a child, my Mum said the same to me about the weighing!

Patti, I'd just eat those as they are, if I could get to them before my kids! Mine are all in flower so won't be long now!

K x

YUM!! They look soooooo good!!!!

Those looks soooo good!! My mouth is watering :D :lol: :D

My first thoughts were....freezer jam on a banana split!! YUM YUM YUMMY!!!!!!!

Toooo late for any more options....made homemade strawberry ice cream custard today!!! YUMMY!!!!! I kept out 1 quart to just eat, made a batch of ice cream and pureed the other quarts and froze them. Now I can either add the puree to smoothies, make a syrup with it or make more Ice cream. Its sooo yummy, wish you all could come over for ice cream!!

Oh what a pretty sight!

i live in Ny, We have a lot of strawberries in the markets now. Most are 1.50 a pound box...and they are so good, Mine says they came from CA. :D Rapid transit is good :wink:

Patti - that sounds delicious! Wish it would survive the mail across the Atlantic!

K x

K, I really wish it would..I'd send you some. It does taste more like the full cream gelato that you can get in Italy than our regular ice cream. I have NO idea where I got the recipe :roll: I did find that (since I have the eating habits of a 12 yr old), that I like the European ice cream MUCH better than ours :roll:

I'll be there soon Patti! Save some for me!

You got it!!! I have tubs in both freezers AND have bags of strawberries to make more when that runs out!! (Just make sure to bring some of those Maine blueberries with you, will ya'??)

Will you share the recipe Patti? My strawbs are full of flower so hoping for a good year!

K x

I'll put it in the recipe section for you...Enjoy!

Thank you! :D

K x

I live right in the middle of STRAWBERRY HEAVEN! The Santa Maria Valley! CALIFORNIA! We have fresh strawberries for so long. One of my favorite ways to eat them is to dip them in sour cream and then in brown sugar.

Oohhhh, well now you are being just plain downright nasty!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Now that does sound good...I thought today...rats...I should have made some chocolate covered strawberries...those are yummy too!

i think that would be more like eating chocolate covered strawberries? IE take a strawberry, dip in melted chocolate, pop it in your mouth; take another strawberry, dip in melted chocolate, pop it in your mouth, and so on... then it's, hey Patti, thought you were making chocolate covered strawberries - where are they, then? Patti - 'errggghhhmmmmrrrmmmmghghgh'! :wink: :D

K x

You are right K...but it would serve DH right anyway. He ate ALMOST the entire batch of custard yesterday!!! :evil: :evil:

Read in the paper this week that the U Pick site here (or one of them) will be open this weekend......HHHOOOOOORRRRAAAAAYYYY!! How to eat them...
pluck from vine, remove stem and cap, pop in mouth......still warm from the sunshine!!!....heaven.

You are so lucky...
I would eat them all...not a probelm for me....
I would probably even ask for more :lol: