Strawberry Picking!

Today we drove to Wisconsin to go strawberry picking at Thompson Farm. It was so much fun to see Elliott finding the ripe strawberries. I think he only ended up putting 2 of them in the basket and ate the rest... His face was completely red!


Now we have three quarts of strawberries!! I think I'm going to make strawberry ice cream and maybe a strawberry pie. I'm a huge fan of Cook's Illustrated... does anyone else use their recipes? They are absolutely awesome. Sometimes they can be complicated, but they always turn out great! The only problem is that the ice cream recipe calls for vodka?! I've never heard of that before and obviously don't want to put alcohol in my ice cream... why would they do that? I wrote them to ask, so we'll see if they write me back soon. Does anyone have any good recipes for strawberry desserts?