Succulent Springtime Strawberries
Wild Cooks, they are here! They are local, and early by a month, so fill your boots people!
Strawberries are at their peak at the moment and are packed full of sweet juice. Even the supermarkets have cut their foreign imports by half to make way for the early ‘Great British Strawberry’.
I recently went on the Jonathan Cowap Show on BBC Radio York and this photo shows us both tucking into my strawberry desserts at the studio.
Jonathan and I having some fruity fun!
The desserts went down a treat with the crew at Radio York and I left with an empty bag which is always a good sign!
These sweet red bullets of lip smacking beauty are enough to entice even the hardened carnivore! Being a big strawberry fan myself, I am delighted to be cooking with some of Lilac Farm’s strawberries this weekend. Lilac Farm is based only 5 miles from Rudding Park in a village called Collingham and it is a great day out for the family.
I will be taking my Lilac Farm strawberries along to the Malton Food Festival this Sunday as I am doing a cooking demonstration. If you haven’t already got something in your diary, please come along to my demonstation at 12 noon on Sunday 22 May and see how to make good use of this fabulous berry with other seasonal ingredients.
If you like the thought of having a go yourself at my Assiette of Strawberries dessert, all three componenets are very quick to prepare. Please click here to read the recipe.
I remember as a girl collecting the cows in for milking on our farm and walking past the hedgerow and eating the wild strawberries on the way back to the milking parlour. The recipe I have given you could be adapted to use wild strawberries quite easily but it will take you a while to pick enough of this sharp sweet berry! The proof of the dessert will be in the eating….
Happy cooking!
Steph x
