[via a sweet spoonful]
As summer fades into late September, I find myself eating strawberries like they're going out of style season. In my area, the price hasn't completely spiked back to totally-out-of-season-you-shouldn't-be-buying-this range, so I'm taking advantage while I can.
As with most fruit, and particularly berries, buying local increases the flavor about 100 fold. No joke. If you don't believe me, I bet you've never owned a strawberry plant. When I was little, my friend's mom got one and I remember when I first tasted the non-conventional form of these amazing red juice-bombs - I couldn't believe it. That, I thought, is what strawberries are supposed to taste like? I felt robbed! The difference was like flavored cardboard and melting chocolate.
Besides that they are wonderful to eat by themselves by the handful, there are all sorts of lovely things you cook/bake/create with strawberries. A few ideas:
Strawberries and Cream Popsicles [via damn delicious]
Strawberry Crepes [via barbara bakes]
How cute are these?!? [via the capitol baker]
Chocolate Strawberry Waffles [via malibu kitchen]
You don't have to stick to sweets, either.
Goat Cheese Crostini with Strawberry Bruschetta [via dishing gormet]
Strawberry Basil Sparkler [via two tarts]
Balsamic Strawberry Pizza with Chicken [via closet cooking]
Strawberries are great sources of dietary fiber, vitamin C, folate, and potassium. Because of the dietary fiber, they're also a great thing to eat after you've eaten too much - they settle the stomach and, shall we say, get things moving in your digestive tract. That, plus some water, equals a much happier belly!
Plus, come on, who doesn't like strawberries?
