With the arrival of spring, I start to want lighter foods. How about you? I start craving fruits more and more, and don’t want particularly heave foods like I did during the late fall and into winter. With the season picking up at The Inn soon, I also won’t have time to warm up my meals that I bring in, so I’ll need to think more about what I am bringing with me.
Berries and cream in these cute little mason jars are the perfect size for my lunch sack and are going to be super quick to grab when I have a minute. They are also easy to make. And the coconut cream is not sugar laden, meaning this is actually considered a healthy snack or dessert.
Strawberries & Cream
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
10 large strawberries
1 – 8.5 ounce can of coconut cream
pure vanilla flavoring
- Wash the strawberries in water and 1 tsp baking soda or vinegar. This will help to get rid of any dirt and other things you don’t want.
- Slice the strawberries, reserving the tops if you will be making strawberry vinegar as well.
- Put the slices into little canning jars or other small containers.
- Mix a few drops of vanilla in with the coconut cream in a small bowl. Taste for flavor, and add one drop of vanilla at a time, stirring and tasting in between, until you have the vanilla flavor you want.
- Spoon the vanilla coconut cream over the strawberries.
- Secure the lids.
- Refrigerate. They should last three or four days in the fridge depending on how recently picked they were.
Notes:
- Try using other berries instead. Blueberries would be nice, or raspberries. I might even try this with blackberries. I noticed the blackberries were cheaper than other berries at Walmart last week.
- Maybe use a mix of berries rather than just one type.
- You could also try other flavorings. Maybe almond, or orange.
Serving Suggestions:
- Put in your lunch sack for work.
- These would also be great “desserts” for children’s lunch boxes.
- This can be a side for a pasta meal as well.
- You can also make them for BBQ’s, or make up a big bowl for any get-together and just let people dish it up on their own.
- This would also go well with just about any breakfast, and would be amazing to top French toast, waffles, or pancakes with if you eat those things.
How do you enjoy your berries? Let us know so we can try them your way!
~ Shannon
