Skip to main content

Strawberry Season


We love strawberries. In fact, one of us REALLY loves strawberries.

Vermont strawberry season is short and the berries tend to be smaller than those available almost year round from Florida and California and South America, but they sure are sweet.

This year, like everything else, they are also quite expensive, but I am not going to cry poor mouth. I am going to enjoy as many fresh and local strawberry treats as I can.

This is a recipe that made the rounds at a school where I worked many years ago. I have it in my recipe binder in a rather faded mimeograph page. Remember those days of workplace theft?

STRAWBRRY PIE

1 pint to 1 quart of fresh strawberries, sliced

1 pre-baked pie shell

1/4 cup corn starch

1 3ounce box of strawberry Jello

1.5 cups of water

Mix the ingredients (except for the berries) and cook on medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until it turns from milky red to clear red. Allow to cool.

Put the berries into baked pie shell and pour cooled sauce over the berries. Refrigerate to set.

Top with whipped cream is desired -- but, really, why not??

Comments

  1. Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)June 14, 2021 at 3:15 PM

    Wow that's it? I am going to make this in my GF crust.
    Yummo! Thanks. I just had some strawberries that I used in a fruit salad and my goodness were they big and sweet. I can't wait to try this.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Linda ReederJune 14, 2021 at 3:41 PM

    I really need to get out this week and find some local strawberries.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Arkansas PattiJune 14, 2021 at 3:59 PM

    I know it is un-American but I never cared much for strawberries. I was the one it was safe to tell to go pick some strawberries out of the garden. I came back with all I picked.

    ReplyDelete
  4. KayJune 14, 2021 at 4:20 PM

    Ooooo... That sounds so delicious, Olga. And easy. I love easy. Thank you so much!!!

    ReplyDelete
  5. BarbaraJune 14, 2021 at 6:48 PM

    I'm a blackberry girl but my Grands are strawberry maniacs. I'll definitely do this next visit.

    ReplyDelete
  6. MaebemeJune 14, 2021 at 10:38 PM

    Oh my, that sounds absolutely delicious. Years ago, I made strawberry tarts. Since my son would be unlikely to help with the pie, perhaps I can half the recipe or maybe freeze some tarts. Hmmmm...

    ReplyDelete
  7. gigi-hawaiiJune 15, 2021 at 8:48 AM

    Simple recipe. Looks so delicious!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Country GirlJune 15, 2021 at 2:10 PM

    We love strawberries too! I have to try that recipe for the family! Definitely whip on top!

    ReplyDelete
  9. BinduJune 18, 2021 at 8:31 PM

    That sounds very easy

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I appreciate readers' comments so much. You don't even always have to agree with me.

Popular posts from this blog

It's TIme

 It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
10 comments
Read more

Life Goes On

There is nothing like a visit from the grand children to remind one that life goes on.  I spent Friday night at my daughter's and then brought the kids back home with me.  I did not get to see so much of them this past summer and it was a birthday gift to my daughter (who just turned 40!) to have a couple of days to herself. She probably spent them in her son's room playing Lego StarWars.  Dane tried to teach me how to play this video game--a hopeless task if ever there was one.  "Concentrate, Grandma!  You have to concentrate!"  I do have a hard time with sustained concentration lately, but in this case I had no clue what it was that needed concentration.  He finally took the controls away from me (thank-you!). It's amazing how long he can amuse himself at my house being out side on a scooter or helping me in the yard, especially if it involves a hose.  Inside, they both sit and draw or craft for hours.  Just before bed, Dane did say, "N...
41 comments
Read more

Eggplant

Mike and I considered ourselves soul mates, but we definitely were not culinary mates.  Mike liked what he liked and disliked what he disliked and he never changed his mind about things like that.  He did not eat mayonnaise.  He did not eat tomato sauce.  He did not eat cooked vegetables except for corn, peas and green beans.  He did not eat onions cooked or otherwise.  He did not eat casseroles ever since they were a combination of things he didn't eat anyway. I did not like mushrooms as a kid and eggplant just made me gag, but my tastes changed,  Foods I found disgusting as a child are now among my favorites--mushrooms, eggplant, avocados, asparagus, eggs, spinach, brussel sprouts, herbs and spices. I will admit that I never developed a taste for liver (nor do I want to). I made this Moussakka a while ago and ate it every day for a week.  I froze half of it but ended up thawing it out right away. It consists of sliced eggplant layered...
31 comments
Read more