Strawberries are in Season!

Strawberries! Strawberries are now in season! Yum Yum Yum Yum. The best part of having them in season are their prices. Cheap cheap cheap! This means I'm going to start making lots and lots of desserts for my girlfriend with strawberries. I plan on making some fruit tarts, a strawberry panna cotta, compotes for my waffles pancakes, and french toast, and can't forget fresh strawberry smoothies and milkshakesss.

I bet most of you didn't know that there are different kinds of strawberries huh! On the picture to the right, you will see a picture of a alpine strawberry or otherwise known as a musk strawberry. I have yet to try one but I've heard that their flavor is ridiculously good. That it doesn't even compare to your average strawberry. Apparently the smell is really strong and the fruits themselves are extremely sweet. According to wikipedia, the flavor is a combination of strawberry, raspberry and pineapple. I want. Although the fruits are delicious, they perish quickly and are very sensitive and easily bruised.

There is another kind of strawberry call the Mara des Bois strawberry. It was made in a French laboratory that combined the taste and aroma of the alpine strawberry but with the stronger body of the regular strawberry that most people are accustomed to.


Flavors that go well with strawberries!

Almonds
Bananas
Basil
Caramel
Champagne
Cinnamon
Coconut
Cognac
Cointreau
Cream cheese
Black Currants
Figs
Guavas
Kiwi
Lemon
Lime
Mascarpone
Oranges
Passion fruit
Peaches
Pineapple
Port
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Sherry
Sour Cream
Vanilla
Balsamic Vinegar
Red Wine
Yogurt
Zabaione (Zabaione is a custard made with egg yolks, sugar, and a sweet wine or champagne)

Information from Wikipedia, 1001 Foods You Must Try Before You Die, and Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page.