The summer heat came in Spring this year in Nashville. I don’t like heat. I like beach breezes and weather I can run long distances in.
I learned, however, that early heat has it’s good side. The strawberries at the farmer’s markets were running over with organic, sweet, juicy strawberries and they are still coming.
I bought a gallon and half between three different farmers, but my best purchase was the gallon bucket from Kelley’s Berry Farm for $15 at the Tuesday market.
All week I thought about ideas for these strawberries. I wanted to make gelato, cocktails, a spicy strawberry sauce for chicken, and frozen jar. I did that here.
You can freeze your strawberries in jars, as long as you leave about an inch of room for expansion.
If you don’t freeze them, make strawberry simple syrup.
I decided to make a simple syrup with strawberries because in all this heat, Strawberry Sangria sounded so refreshing.
If you have strawberries left over, make strawberry sauce.
You might be thinking strawberry cocktails sound good too.
Strawberry Martini from from Spinach Tiger
Blackberry Sangria from Spinach Tiger
If you like this, you may like our blueberry simple syrup recipe.
More Strawberry Recipes from Spinach Tiger
More Cocktail Recipes from Spinach Tiger
- 3 cups strawberries washed with stems removed, divided
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- Blend two cups of strawberries until a puree is formed.
- Dice remaining strawberries. Set aside
- Heat water, sugar, strawberry puree together to a boil. When water is at a boil, add diced strawberries, and simmer until the strawberries are very soft. Take through a sieve. Store in refrigerator.
- Note: Reduce down to very thick if you want to use for frosting or cake.
Simple, but delightfully divine! Wow, I’d love to be able to find such cheap strawberries. Here, 250g costs about 5-6$…
Cheers,
Rosa
Could use the strawberry syrup on so many things, like pancakes or ice cream, yum! Very nice!
MmmmMmmm.. we just finished Strawberry smoothies just about an hour ago.. we still have more strawberries in the fridge that we are going to be “putting up” too… LOL
So refreshing!
Cool!
It was a lovely warm Spring day here, I have strawberries from California, and time on my hands.
Ahh strawberries! So abundant and delicious when they are in season! Your soup looks wonderful and I can imagine so many applications! And thank you too for your vote, I so appreciate it! 😀 x
If only we had strawberries at the moment! The problem is that our spring sofar has been more like autumn. Cold, rain and not good for strawberries. But fingers crossed the summer will be better!
Just got 4 lbs. for $5 in WY. Great ideas here. i have Aji dried peppers and will try a spicy chicken sauce today.
Your Farmers Market is on a Farm? That inspires me. P.S. In my house “putting up” is what Ken does with me! GREG
How I mess Erdbeeren season in Germany! I haven’t had time to get to the famers market here in NYC these past weeks. This syrup is perfect. Thanks for the recipe. I inted to make it as soon as I get my (oven) mitts on some fresh strawberries.
Angela, thanks for including me in your post. I feel so honored and you did such a great job melding ideas. Your syrup looks absolutely beautiful and would be great on some homemade ice cream I bet! We are still eating strawberries here at our house every day but this too will pass, sadly, but we have our “put up” berries and you have your “syrup”. Well done.
From where did you get alll theseee gorgeous strawberries? I so want to go for strawberry picking here, do you know any place?
BTW ur syrup looks divine!
i’ve been stocking up on fresh, local strawberries lately, too – aren’t they just wonderful? we got a great deal on Portland, TN strawberries at the farmer’s market so I’ve been cooking/baking with them + snacking on them for the last 5 days. they’re almost all gone!
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What a brilliant strawberry syrup recipe, I had strawberries lying around in the fridge so I made the syrup just now and I am so excited to use it on different things. Thank you for sharing this recipe.