Cooking with Ontario strawberries

I love strawberry season! I have great memories of berry picking in the summers with my dad, so I was happy to see that strawberries are in season here. Ontario strawberries are so good - small and sweet. I find sometimes the strawberries available at the grocery store are huge and kind of tasteless, but the ones we bought this week were perfect. I was afraid the berries would go bad before we could eat them all, so Sunshine and I set out to make some strawberry muffins today. I used Anna Olson's recipe from the Food TV website for stawberry banana muffins. That worked out well since I had some overripe bananas in the freezer to use up.

I let Sunshine stir the batter. She loves to bate bate (stir in Spanish) just like Dora. Looking good so far:












Watching muffins bake is always interesting. Maybe she was worried I'd burn them or something?
















The finished product. They looked perfect! The taste - well, I think I let Sunshine stir TOO much, because they were a bit...tough. I'll try again sometime and stir the batter myself.












Also of note - who knew that the strawberries container made such a good toy? Sunshine's using it to carry around some of her treasures, including an old IQ2000 handheld game with no batteries, her precious dog, one of Duke's soother's, and an under-ripe strawberry that looked interesting since it was kind of whitish-yellow in colour.

















Now that we've had some Ontario strawberries, I can't wait for Ontario corn! I think it's in season sometime in August, so you can bet we'll be having that. We couldn't get good corn in Halifax, so we'll have to make up for it by eating lots here.

p.s. Forgive the slightly odd layout. I'm still trying to figure this all out.