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.

Smoothies?

Coulis?

Chuck them into the freezer and use in smoothies.

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

Eton mess or throw them in a trifle.

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.

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

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

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

Or make a strawberry cake.

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

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.

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

We're having strawberry milkshakes for dessert tonight.

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

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

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

You can make strawberry vodka too.

Crumble

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.

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

ETON!

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