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Strawberry Cheese

Why are strawberries called strawberries? The word 'strawberry' dates back nearly 2,000 years to the Anglo-Saxons. Is it because the strawberry's runners look like straw? Or because the berry's external seeds look like little golden bits of chaff? No one knows.

This little stuffed strawberry dish is a dessert-appetizer-snack. It's a great way to do something different with strawberries other than eat them out of hand--which is pretty hard to beat.

You don't have to stuff strawberries with this strawberry-cheese, you can just spread this mix on muffins or toast or crackers.

Makes about 1½ cup

6 ounces cream cheese

1½ teaspoons toasted poppy seeds

⅓ Cup finely chopped strawberries

Several whole strawberries for stuffing

In a small bowl, mix together cheese, poppy seeds and chopped strawberries. Stuff several hollowed out strawberries--this amount will stuff about two dozen good size strawberries.

You can also spoon this strawberry cheese into a small, decorative serving dish and garnish with whole strawberry and thyme and serve with crudités or little squares of toast.

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Strawberry Butter

Strawberry butter is just what waffles need. That is strawberry butter and strawberries.

Strawberry butter is tasty on homemade breads, rolls, muffins, biscuits, pancakes, and waffles.

Spring and early summer are the time for strawberries. Strawberry shortcake, strawberry tarts, and strawberry ice cream are all in season in spring and early summer.

Choose strawberries that are full, red, and shiny are ripe. If you get hold of strawberries with green patches, set them aside on the kitchen counter overnight in a single layer and let them ripen. No need to force your enjoyment of strawberries, only settle for strawberries that are sweet and ripe.

The best tasting strawberries are the ones harvested the day after they reach ripeness. This means you need to keep your fingers on the strawberries this time of year so that you can enjoy them when they are most tasty.

Here are the directions for making strawberry butter:

½ cup sliced strawberries

1 tablespoon honey

½ cup butter at room temperature

In a medium-size bowl, mash the strawberries and honey together. Use an electric mixer or a potato masher and gradually beat in half of the butter. Give it a chance; it will blend together even if the mix seems reluctant at first. When half the butter has been added, whip in the remaining butter--if you are using the electric mixer increase the speed from medium to high. Soon the mix will be light and fluffy. If this strawberry butter doesn't go straight on your waffles, you can pack the mix into a mold or crock and cover tightly with platic wrap and refrigerate until ready for use. Makes about 3/4 cup.

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Planting Strawberries

If the idea of serving your own fresh-picked strawberries next summer sounds good, spring is the time to get your strawberries growing.

Strawberries are a perennial plant which means once you’ve got them in the ground you will have them for a two or three years to come.

There are two types of strawberries: June-bearing strawberries produce one crop per year in late spring or early summer, and everbearing or day-neutral strawberries fruit over a long season with harvest peaking in early summer and continuing unevenly through autumn.

Site. Strawberries prefer full sun and temperatures between 60-80ºF (16-27ºC). They grow best in growth zones 3-10. You can grow strawberries in light shade.

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Strawberry

Strawberries and cream. Strawberries shortcake. Strawberries just by themselves.

Yummmy!

The peak season for flavorful, naturally sweet strawberries is late spring.

Local strawberries at the peak of their natural season are most likely to be the tastiest strawberries you will eat all year.

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