(photo from Gourmet.com)

Oh, how I love strawberries that taste like strawberries (as opposed to strawberries that we eat most of the year, until the summer, you know, the ones that only look like strawberries.) Cartons of locally-grown strawberries have started to appear at the store and sent me looking for some new ideas of what to do with them, in addition to just eating them by the handful.

Gourmet.com: Strawberry dumplings

Yumsugar: Spinach and strawberry salad

Smitten Kitchen: Strawberry rhubarb crisp (where I get to combine two of my favorite ingredients of all time)

FamilyFun: Lady bugs on a stick (now these will make a popular mom around here)