Article: Savoury & sweet; Strawberries with herb cream; Strawberry gratin; Strawberry daiquiri; KNOW YOUR STRAWBS

There's more than one way to savour a strawberry, writes Kate Fraser.

I have been too hasty this strawberry season. I looked the other way when I saw those September berries because I knew they would be pretty on the outside but hard and flavourless beneath that scarlet, grown-in-Queensland coat.

Then, early this month, Auckland and Waikato strawberries arrived in town and I said, "These will be good, they're ours."

Yeah right! The sweetness I look forward to from one November to the next was so not there I might have been eating tomatoes.

No complaints about size; some serious fertilisation must have been injected into this year's early crop because these berries were huge. And wooden. ...

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