{"id":426,"date":"2012-10-13T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=426"},"modified":"2012-11-15T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T00:33:16","slug":"bounty-of-the-month-strawberries-in-september-and-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/licktheplateclean\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Bounty of the month\u2013Strawberries in September and October"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>When I was a little girl I remember not really liking strawberries\u2013they always seemed tart\u2013but I was so not wanting to miss out that I would swallow them whole rather than give them to my brothers who obviously loved them.
\nI am a bit more mature about my response to food now and having tasted some divine examples of strawberry sweetness, I do know that good strawberries exist.
\nThe sweet, hard-to-describe floral, candy perfume of ripe flavour-filled strawberries is intoxicating, and when that wafts through the market stall, they sell themselves.
\nWhen in season and 500g punnets selling for $2, resistance is futile.
\nMy boys have been known to buy a punnet each and slurp their way around the market with juice stained fingers and sweet smelling breath.<\/p>\n

The strawberry is, in technical terms, an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant’s ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries. Each apparent “seed” (achene) on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it. In both culinary and botanical terms, the entire structure is considered a fruit (Wikipedia).
\nThere are\u00a0 about 9 varieties of strawberries grown in Australia, and I really don’t know the scientific differences. My nose, eyes and taste buds help me choose.<\/p>\n

So that is some of the technical stuff.
\nThe initial obvious employment of strawberries is to satisfy the sweets compartment\u2013strawberries and cream, strawberry jam, in fruit salad, on pavlova, strawberry ice cream, in a smoothie or milkshake, strawberry and champagne (sparkling wine) jelly, tarts, mousses, cheese cakes…
\nBut how about strawberry and duck risotto; strawberry, feta and rocket salad; strawberry relish glazed pork belly; strawberry and balsamic vinegar salad dressing…and something I have been toying with for a while-Strawberry,balsamic and pepper sorbet:<\/span>
\nIng:
\n500g strawberries, hulled
\n1\/3 cup balsamic vinegar
\n1 1\/2 tsp ground black pepper
\n1 cup caster sugar
\n1 1\/2 cups water
\n1 egg white,<\/span> beaten until soft peaks<\/p>\n

Method:
\nDissolve sugar in water and bring to the boil.\"\"<\/a>
\nRemove from heat and cool.
\nPuree strawberries with vinegar and mix in pepper.
\nMix syrup in with puree. Fold in egg white.
\nPour into icecream machine and churn according to instructions. Decant into plastic container and freeze.<\/p>\n

Zingy and refreshing. Maybe could do with even more pepper. Or maybe not!<\/p>\n

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