I like to use some to make strawberry sauce for pancakes or over ice cream. Just berries, a little water, sugar and cornstarch. Delicious!

The kids have been enjoying their oatmeal with strawberries in it!!

Oh goodness. Just go to tastespotting.com and use the search bar for strawberries or fresh strawberry. Put a paper towel down on the keyboard first for the drool, because the pictures are amazing. Each picture is a link to a blog entry with the recipe. Every recipe I’ve tried from that site has been outstanding.

We had some strawberries that were getting mushy, so I made strawberry milkshakes.  You can always freeze them, too.

Strawberry Pie with a sugar cookie bottom crust. Pat sugar cookie dough into the bottom of a very well greased pie pan and bake at 350 until done (usually a little longer than the normal cookie recipe calls for.) Fill with cut strawberries and glaze-either homemade from more mushy strawberries, or store bought. Pop it into fridge until cool and set. Yum!!

Ok, no fair. You guys are making my mouth water and our local strawberries don’t come out until mid-June.

I am on a low glycemic index diet- and STRAWBERRIES are on it ;o) perfect! I mix them with nonfat greek yogurt (plain) and usually I will add an orange chopped too- just in case they are not quite sweet enough for my addicted sweet tooth, and then top them with chopped raw almonds or pecans-(almost as good as icecream- if like me, you have to reform in the dessert area!)
I saw a recipe in the new Southern Living for cheesecakes made with goat cheese, cream cheese, and gelatin- topped with berries, served in jars. Strawberries and goat cheese just sounds really great to me!

What is also yummy is whipping up a bit of mascarpone and powdered sugar (or drizzling with honey)...mmmmm.

I think that your boys would enjoy making freezer jam with you!  Just get some canning jars and lids from the store or from garage sales.  Then buy the freezer jam pectin.  I’m still enjoying some freezer jam that I made last summer!  It is so good!

Strawberry shortcake with vanilla ice cream is always a crowd pleaser . I second the freezer jam.

But, honestly, if I’m not eating them plain, I prefer strawberries with either of these 2-ingredient accompaniments:

Fruit Dip
1) a container marshmallow cream
2) a block of softened cream cheese
Mix and enjoy (great with apples, kiwis, or virtually any fruit. Holy moly, I just eat this stuff on a spoon!).

Who’d've Thunk It Strawberry Topping
1. sour cream
2. brown sugar
Dip strawberry into sour cream. Roll in brown sugar. Wonder who discovered this and call them a genius.

Try refrigerator jam.  It’s super easy, and keeps for 2 weeks in the refrigerator.

2 cups roughly chopped strawberries
1/4 C honey
Juice and zest of half a lemon
Pinch of salt and pepper

Heat in saucepan over medium heat until it comes to a boil.  Reduce heat, and simmer until jam becomes thick.  Pour into jars and refrigerate until cool.  Great on homemade biscuits!

For any leftover berries, slice them in quarters or halves and freeze them in a single layer on a wax paper covered cookie sheet. Then store in freezer bags. This is the best way to freeze berries (little berries freeze whole) so they don’t get mushy or all clumped together. We just took a bunch out to stir into our oatmeal to make strawberry oatmeal. Enjoy!! Love all the other ideas too. I may have to go picking again.

Melt a little chocolate and make chocolate dipped strawberries!  Nothing could be easier!  I set them out on a piece of wax paper until the chocolate hardens.  Add a glass of wine after the kiddos are in bed, and it could be the start of a romantic evening…

Well, I’ve been making jam (for the first time!) with all the strawberries we’ve gotten, and I’ve also frozen a ton of them for smoothies… and, I actually made some strawberry chocolate chip muffins, which the kids loved (even though they were pink!)

For those who want a non-dessert recipe try making a strawberry salad.  Slice some strawberries and add to a bunch of dark leafy greens with a splash of balsamic vinegar.  Add a handful of chopped nuts and/or feta cheese.  The vitamin C in the strawberries and the iron in the dark greens are a perfect combination, and believe it or not, a little balsamic goes very well with strawberries.

Strawberry sorbet!!

We have been strawberry picking too and I made a list of things I wanted to try.  We had strawberry crepes for dinner and spinach & strawberry salad is yummy.  I also plan to make a pavlova and strawberries Romanoff.  Cream puffs are fun and so is trifle.  And hopefully the strawberries will last until I can make strawberry ice.