Cooking Games and Picking Strawberries

I think one of the most important parts of cooking games is preparing for them adequately. If you’re doing something fun like a strawberry dessert or making strawberry jam, preparing for the cooking games can be as simple as going out to pick some strawberries yourself. If you don’t live in a hugely urban area, or even if you do, search your local listing for farms where you might be able to go out and pick your own strawberries.

This is the season for strawberries and they freeze very well making them easy to use later, too. When you pick the strawberries, find ones that are very ripe but not soft. You want firm strawberries that are bright red and ready to be used. When you have a nice collection, take them home and use some immediately with some cream or in a dessert. But then take the rest and freeze them up for use later. It will be nice to have fresh strawberries for your cooking games in the winter, too.