Tag Archives: Strawberries

These cakes won’t sell your strawberries short

Here in Melbourne, it’s early in the fifth week of a tough, six-week lockdown, which was imposed by our State Government to suppress a severe Covid-19 outbreak. We can venture out no further than 5km from our home and only … Continue reading

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Not rushin’ this dessert

Most Australians are very fond of strawberries; Maggie and I are active members of this majority. We use them in several ways: with meringues, on a cheese and cream tart, in a fruit salad with banana and fresh pineapple, with … Continue reading

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Strawberry and cream tart

We are very fond of flavoursome, firm strawberries, irrespective of size; size only matters when you want to make jam, for which smaller strawberries work better. When we were, ahem, young, you could only buy strawberries in Melbourne for a … Continue reading

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