Strawberries

Sunshyne said:

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I am in Ohio, United States. No all year around here at all. Damn, be cool

to

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have fresh strawberries whenever ya want. Lucky you. 🙂

From: Martin W. Smith

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We get them from Palestine in the winter. We also get them from
Argentina, I think, somewhere in the south. So you can imagine that
they ship them in a cargo hold filled with some inert gas, I suppose.
You could argue that means they aren't fresh, but they taste fresh.

I like the fresh taste better. I am not going to argue anything about that. I
just don't like them frozen, mushy. The ones in frozen bags at the supermarket.

Fresh ones I think, they are sold in the market in the cooler months.. Which is
off season here. They are sour tasting. Adding splenda to them, don't matter
really. Still sour and bitter. Don't even taste like a strawberry. They are
pricier in the cooler months too. Why waste the money?

I don't eat a lot, a lot, of strawberries really. We go through a quart of them
every week though. With myself, and three teenage sons.

Change of the season is coming up. We got a three day weekend, Labor Day
weekend here. It sorta brings in the fall season. Which I love. Its cooler
weather, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. 🙂

Ya would think with a name like Sunshyne, I would love hot weather. I don't.
Autumn is my favorite season. Fresh air, the wind. Windchimes chiming. Windows
open. Great smells coming from the kitchen. Blowing leaves. Its beautiful.

OK, gotta get to studying. Two tests tomorrow. Thats why I am up in the middle
of the night. Its quiet. 🙂

<<<Get off the Net already Sunshyne..Self reminder>>>> LOL
🙂

Great point there Saffire. Thank you. Gonna look for one of them at Wal-Mart
this weekend. I usually cut and ziplock salad stuff. Just pull it all outta the
fridge at dinner time. Unless we are having another veggie. By the end of the
week, what salad stuff we don't eat. It starts wilting. Going bad.

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Yup -- DEFINITELY worth the investment. I also invested in a wide-mouth
mason
jar sealer attachment and use it to make up a week or more's worth of
individual
salads. For ME it's worth it for that ALONE, because the effort of making a
salad once a week is a WHOLE lot less than making one with rapidly
deteriorating
produce every DAY.

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Saffire
205/149/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

"PlacidBull" <[email hidden]> wrote

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whenever I want a treat, i pour one cup of heavy whipping cream in the
blender and froth it up. I then add a couple large handfuls of frozen
strawberry slices and blend away!

the result is very delicious strawberry ice cream.

I used to and splenda but found that I didn't need it.

Mmmmmmm, this sounds very easy and good. I occasionally make homemade ice
cream (zip lock bag method) and include some sliced strawberries, but this
sounds even easier. Thanks!

HG

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I occasionally make homemade ice
cream (zip lock bag method)

What is zip lock bag method?

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What is zip lock bag method?

You can find more discussion of this way of making a serving or two of ice
cream without special equipment by doing a search of asdl-c on Google.
Here's one I came up with that is approximately what I do. I often double
the proportions and use larger bags, and add cut-up fruit such as peaches or
mango, or sliced strawberries or whole blueberries. Very simple.

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Jackie's Quickie Ice Cream
1/2 cup cream
1/3 cup water
2 packets sweetener
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. liqueur of choice (optional)
Place ingredients in small ziplock bag and seal well. Place inside gallon
sized ziplock with ice and salt. Set the bag on a towel beside you on the
couch and shake, flip and jiggle the bag for about 15min, until set.
5.3 G of carbohydrates (according to USDA site) Split it with your
boyfriend like I did, and it is even less!

That's what I did this summer - ran fruit through food processor with
Splenda - made small/thin ice cubes, then vacuum pack.

The real problem is my freezer just isn't big enough! :-)

Steve

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The price of strawberries will soon go up. With the change of seasons. I

refuse

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to pay the price of fresh ones in the fall, and winter months. I don't

care too

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much for the frozen ones. But, I will probably buy them frozen, because I

love

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strawberries in yogurt so much. Blueberries too, and sometimes

blackberries.

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Is there any other thoughts to this, from anyone? Maybe buy a bunch fresh,
before the price goes up, then freeze them? Or what ways to make the

frozen

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ones taste better? I was thinking running them through a food processer,

or

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grinding them up, adding splenda. Or even some low sugar jelly or jam, in
replace of the fresh fruit?
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Which size jar do you use? I keep a stock of 1/2-pint to 1/2-gallon on hand,
but hadn't thought of that before. I thought about using one of the larger
2.5-qt containers to keep the whole salad together.

Steve

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Yup -- DEFINITELY worth the investment. I also invested in a wide-mouth

mason

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jar sealer attachment and use it to make up a week or more's worth of

individual

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salads. For ME it's worth it for that ALONE, because the effort of making

a

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salad once a week is a WHOLE lot less than making one with rapidly

deteriorating

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produce every DAY.

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Saffire
205/149/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

Which size jar do you use? I keep a stock of 1/2-pint to 1/2-gallon on hand,
but hadn't thought of that before. I thought about using one of the larger
2.5-qt containers to keep the whole salad together.

Steve

"Saffire" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Yup -- DEFINITELY worth the investment. I also invested in a wide-mouth

mason

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jar sealer attachment and use it to make up a week or more's worth of

individual

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salads. For ME it's worth it for that ALONE, because the effort of making

a

Quoted message said:

salad once a week is a WHOLE lot less than making one with rapidly

deteriorating

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produce every DAY.

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Saffire
205/149/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

In article <7Tq_c.291813$eM2.187391@attbi_s51>, [email hidden]
says...

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Which size jar do you use? I keep a stock of 1/2-pint to 1/2-gallon on hand,
but hadn't thought of that before. I thought about using one of the larger
2.5-qt containers to keep the whole salad together.

I use the 1 qt jars and end up filling them about 1/2 to 2/3 full of veggies (I
don't include lettuce).

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Saffire
205/149/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333