Strawberries - Strawberries

All Things Strawberry

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Make a table topper or table runner using a basic block designed to highlight a focus fabric.  This fabric block is created with a strawberry fabric and 1/2 triangle squares.  For the basic square you will need four 1/2 square triangle squares to create one block.

Get the instruction page by clicking on this page.

Sew the four resulting blocks back together with a 1/4 inch seam allowance.  Then create your block or running by adding borders, additional blocks.  Be creative and create something unique.

Use your "new" table topper to feature strawberry dip.  The recipe (and books to read) at http://bit.ly/honey-gingerbread

Or make Little Red Hen's Magnificent Strawberry Shortcake -- find the recipe at http://bit.ly/LRH-shortcake -- and enjoy 

Or make some strawberry rhubarb jam - find out more at http://bit.ly/rhubarbtime.

If you make this jam and want labels for your jam jars, this image can be used on Avery labels (12 circle labels to a page) to create a page of labels (2.1 x 1.9).  Print, and affix to the top of the jar lid.

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Strawberries - Recipes and Books

Three of our favorite classic book titles featuring strawberries - bring memories of two of our favorite recipes for enjoying strawberries - with fruit dip and other fruit, and along side of chocolate (in this case fudgy fudge), and add a favorite gingerbread cookie recipe (delicious with strawberries and ice cream).

Strawberry etc. Fruit Dip (click on images for full sized copies)

Fudgy Fudge (click on images for full sized copies)

Honey Gingerbread Cookies (click on images for full sized copies)

Strawberry Books - Classics too good to miss

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Food: Garden Fresh Salsa

Cooking (and Reading) with your family

I could not believe I LOVED this salsa.  Normally I don't like vegetables and this salsa has all the ingredients I stay away from: cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, vinaigrette dressing...  But this combination is prize winning.  And the best part I had many of the ingredients right in my refrigerator, fresh from the garden.
This salsa is simple enough for children to make.  Adults should supervise the chopping but the combining and measuring is well within even primary aged children's abilities.
For more recipes to make with young readers look for this book.

For more recipes to make with young readers look for this book.  Chop Chop: The Kids' Guide to Cooking Real Food with Your Family, by Sally Sampson with photographs by Carl Tremblay (Simon and Schuster, 2013).

The following recipe for Garden Fresh Salsa is from our family recipe book and is simple (and fun to make) -- chop, add, and mix - in any order you wish:

 

Click on recipe card to access a printable copy.

• 2 1/2  to 3 cups fresh or frozen sweet corn (The small bag of Bird's Eye corn should have had 3 1/3 cups [5 servings of 2/3 cups] but it ended up lucky to have a full 2 cups as there was a lot of frozen water chunks in the package).
• 1 cup black beans (I just put in the entire can - the rest would have just gone to waste.)
• 3/4  cup chopped tomato
• 1/2 cup chopped granny smith apple - about 1/2 the apple - so I sliced the other half and dipped in caramel, a great treat while I was cooking.
• 1/2 cup chopped cucumber
• 1/4 cup red onion - saved some red onion slices for on my favorite salad: salad greens (fresh kale tonight), red onion, strawberries, and chopped nuts - Ken's Foods Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette dressing.
• 2 Tablespoons balsamic vinaigrette dressing  (I used Panera Balsamic Vinaigrette, but you could make your own using this copycat recipe - http://www.copycatrecipeguide.com/How_to_Make_Panera_Balsamic_Vinaigrette)
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• Chopped cilantro (I bought a fresh batch and used my food processor to chop it up.  Had plenty so I put the rest in a jar to use in the next few days.)
• Salt to taste (I completely omitted this ingredient - so add as you wish.)
• Mix together. Chill and stir often
• Serve with tortilla chips.