The CookingBites recipe challenge: strawberries

[caseydog]

I’ll tell everyone right here - it doesn’t have to be a secret.

I’m planning on a strawberry wine spritzer for my drink, a strawberry gratin, a dish of strawberries, madeira, and cream (popular in colonial times), and some pork chops served up with a strawberry-garlic sauce, and my coup de grace will be a very retro strawberry Jell-O salad, straight outta 1950’s suburbia. I’m really looking forward to that one.

Glad I asked. I was working up a possible recipe in my head for a strawberry sauce for a pork chop.

CD

 

[TastyReuben]

Glad I asked. I was working up a possible recipe in my head for a strawberry sauce for a pork chop.

CD

Do it anyway - I always follow recipes and you make yours from scratch, so they’re bound to be different. We’re probably going to get a lot of shortcakes and things, too.

That Jell-O molded salad, though…I’m dreaming at about that one.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My first entry

Recipe - Summer Strawberry Panzanella

This kind of morphed into a main course salad from the original version...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Tomorrow I'll be turning 1kg of strawberries into a cold strawberry gazpacho soup! It's due to be 29°C so a cold soup seemed to be preferable to a hot one.

 

[detroitdad]

I recently made a basil strawberry Margarita for the family. It was such a big hit the sober driver had to run to the store and pick up more strawberries. I will post this recipe shortly.

B

 

[TastyReuben]

My first entry

Recipe - Summer Strawberry Panzanella

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This kind of morphed into a main course salad from the original version...

Beautiful salad!

 

[TastyReuben]

I recently made a basil strawberry Margarita for the family. It was such a big hit the sober driver had to run to the store and pick up more strawberries. I will post this recipe shortly.

B

That sounds really good.

 

[blades]

I normally use strawberries for shortcake, breakfast crepes and an ingredient in tossed salads. I'll pick some up on Wednesday when we visit the supermarket and figure something out in the meantime. Perhaps I can kick the breakfast crepes up a notch. Shortcake is too boring and throwing strawberries into a tossed salad isn't very creative.

 

[blades]

Fun fact: the fear of strawberries is called fragariaphobia. How about that?!

I generally head for cover when I see the strawberries advancing.

 

[msmofet]

I love strawberries. I like to make strawberry rhubarb compote when I can get rhubarb. Hard to find fresh or even frozen anymore.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I love strawberries. I like to make strawberry rhubarb compote when I can get rhubarb. Hard to find fresh or even frozen anymore.

I grow both and usually end up disposing of so much rhubarb.... much like sorrel. It does struggle in our hottest months though but recovers well.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

throwing strawberries into a tossed salad isn't very creative.

It might not be creative to you, but it's a totally new concept to me despite me often putting grapes, pomegranate seeds, apricots, apples and a few others in main course dishes.

 

[TastyReuben]

I’ve occasionally put strawberries in a salad, but if I’m going to do that with fresh fruit, it’s much more likely to be apples or oranges.

 

[msmofet]

I love the Wendy’s salad with strawberries.

 

[TastyReuben]

Planning on making my next one tomorrow!