Ok, maybe this idea has already occurred to the rest of you, but even so, it made me happy and I wanted to share.
A week or two ago I bought a container of strawberries because they were a great price. I don't usually eat a container before they go bad, so I could never justify the price before. But these were too good to pass up, and I figured that we could finish them between the two of us.
Well, the reason they were such a good price, of course, is that they were fairly ripe and close to going bad. So a day or two after buying them, it looked like they were going to rot before we ate them all.
So Jeff had a great idea to freeze them to keep them from going bad. And I decided that, after they were frozen, it would be easy to blend them up and add them to a pitcher of lemonade to make strawberry lemonade. I got this idea from Ben and Hilary, who added raspberries (I think they were frozen) to their lemonade when we were visiting over Easter.
I always love it when I go out to a restaurant and order strawberry lemonade, and they use real strawberries instead of the syrup. It's so much better!
NOTE: if you have never done this before, learn from my mistake and remove the leaves before freezing the strawberries. They were very annoying to remove after they were frozen.
Well, we made strawberry lemonade tonight, and it was a success! I was so happy with our fancy drink that I got out our fancy glasses for dinner (see picture).
If you've never done this before, I highly recommend it for strawberries that are getting to be past their prime. And we ended up with more strawberries than we needed for our lemonade, so I mixed up the rest with some vanilla-fudge-twirl icecream and milk for dessert. It ended up tasting like Neopolitan icecream when it melts and all the flavors mix together. Yum!
2 comments:
I like to blend a little milk, a banana, and frozen fruit together to make a smoothie. Strawberries are great for that too!
I love freezing berries, too, and I agree with Rachel that they are great in smoothies. (I also like orange juice and yogurt in my smoothies.) Frozen strawberries also work well with waffles and whipped cream. I've found it's easiest to wash and then cut up the strawberries into small pieces so they thaw easier and I can use small amounts if I want. Did you know you could also freeze bananas to use later for banana bread, cookies, muffins, etc.? Freezers are great. :)
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