{"id":23196,"date":"2024-06-28T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=23196"},"modified":"2024-06-12T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:29:43","slug":"quick-and-easy-ideas-for-preparing-dishes-featuring-strawberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/28\/quick-and-easy-ideas-for-preparing-dishes-featuring-strawberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and Easy Ideas for Preparing Dishes Featuring Strawberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23197\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/strawberry-smoothie-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23197\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/strawberry-smoothie-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">strawberry smoothie photo from Freepik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are you looking for creative ways to serve strawberries? If so, Chef Nancy Berkoff has several suggestions in a previous Vegan Cooking Tips column that appeared in <em>Vegan Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add sliced strawberries to mixed green or pasta salads.<\/li>\n<li>Layer sliced strawberries, whole blueberries, and vegan yogurt or silken tofu in a glass bowl to make an attractive dessert or breakfast parfait. Sprinkle with chopped nuts, sesame seeds, or pumpkin seeds if desired.<\/li>\n<li>Mash fresh or frozen chopped strawberries with a dash of maple syrup and serve as a topping for waffles and pancakes.<\/li>\n<li>Blend strawberries with a little bit of orange juice concentrate and use as a fresh fruit sauce for fruit salad, pancakes, pound cake, cookies, or vegan ice cream.<\/li>\n<li>Add strawberries to breakfast smoothies to give them a more vibrant taste and color.<\/li>\n<li>Create strawberry vinaigrette by blending with oil, vinegar, and dried oregano, garlic, and nutritional yeast.<\/li>\n<li>To make baked oatmeal with strawberries, simply mix oatmeal with boiling water, pat into a baking dish, top with sliced strawberries, and bake at 350 degrees until firm.<\/li>\n<li>Create a soaked strawberry cake with leftover cake or wheat bread cut into cubes, and mixed with blended strawberries.<\/li>\n<li>Blend a strawberry lassi using strawberries, vegan yogurt, coconut milk, and lemon zest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire column here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2021issue2\/2021_issue2_cooking_tips.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2021issue2\/2021_issue2_cooking_tips.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/cabdacae.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/cabdacae.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for creative ways to serve strawberries? If so, Chef Nancy Berkoff has several suggestions in a previous Vegan Cooking Tips column that appeared in Vegan Journal: Add sliced strawberries to mixed green or pasta salads. Layer sliced strawberries, whole blueberries, and vegan yogurt or silken tofu in a glass bowl to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23198,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions\/23198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}