What to do with over ripe strawberries?

[just5morepeas]

My kids went strawberry picking on sunday and they're not very discerning when it comes to choosing a berry!

So what could I do with the over ripe fruit? All the jam recipes I've looked at say the fruit shouldn't be over ripe.

[daisydalrymple]

Smoothies?

[Rioja123]

Coulis?

[VerityHabitat]

Chuck them into the freezer and use in smoothies.

[just5morepeas]

Oh, I never thought about smoothies! Strawberries freeze ok just as they are then?

[GlitterGlue]

Eton mess or throw them in a trifle.

[VerityHabitat]

Well they clump up but I am far too lazy to flash freeze them separately on a tray before bagging. So I just make small baggies of them - enough for one smoothie. Throw the clump in and it's fine. But I do have a Vitamix that can blend the big chunks.

[SecondaryQuandary]

Blend and swirl into natural yoghurt
Blend and blob on granola before adding milk
Smoothies
Blend and pour over vanilla ice cream

[TheSnorkMaidenReturns]

Mush them up with your matching over ripe bananas and a dash of milk (or almond milk) and turn them into ice lollies.

[VerityHabitat]

You could blend and then pour into ice cube trays, freeze and then bag them.

Or make a strawberry cake.

[just5morepeas]

Oh, there's some great suggestions here, thanks everyone.

[StillRunningWithScissors]

I freeze them for smoothies, but they also work well if you throw a few frozen ones into a bowl, microwave for about 30 secs or so and is for yogurt or ice cream. So nice.

[NewDayDawning]

I am in exactly the same boat with a punnet overripe strawberries from strawberry picking

We're having strawberry milkshakes for dessert tonight.

[Piffpaffpoff]

Freeze them then blend with OJ as you wish - deeeeelicious! Throw in a few slices of peach too for extra loveliness.

[YellowLawn]

freeze them. then blend with cream (or plain full fat yoghurt) for instant ice cream

[DubiousCredentials]

Stew them? We used to have stewed strawberries and ice cream when I was a child.

[paradoxicalInterruption]

You can make strawberry vodka too.

[Hoppinggreen]

Crumble

[TheSpottedZebra]

You can make jam with them, just they'll be really low in pectin and won't set ad well.
So either add pectin, or add a pectin-rich fruit eg redcurrants.

[FurcoatnoNicks]

Wow great ideas here
I made Erin mess for my kids yesterday and they LOVED it
Used lavender sprigs to decorate and they called me Heston

[FurcoatnoNicks]

ETON!

[Gooseygoosey12345]

Jam, smoothies, strawberry tart, strawberry ice cream. Mmm think I'll get the strawberries out of the fridge