STRAWBERRIES ARE COMING!!!!!!!

I got the swarm of bees hived Wed. morning. Need to check them now and see how they are doing, and feed them again. Hopefully they will like their new home and stay put! Thursday was baking day for Farmers' Market, and Friday we picked. Our onions we planted earlier this Spring are now coming on, had them in the CSA boxes this week. The lettuce and greens are really coming on, too. Now if we can get the radishes caught up! But the really exciting news for you all is that the strawberries are starting to ripen! We picked a handful Thursday evening. So we'll have to see if there will be enough ready this week for the CSA boxes! But even if there isn't there will be the next week! So get ready. So with that in mind here are a couple of recipes to get you going! These came from the Rural Missouri coop paper this month.

Easy Strawberry Cheesecake
1 graham cracker crust
8 oz. whipped topping
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pint fresh strawberries, washed, hulled & halved
First, cream the cream cheese, gradually adding in the sugar. Add vanilla & whip until fluffy. Fold in whipped topping. Pour into crust. Garnish with fresh strawberries. Refrigerate for 1 hour, until firm

Strawberry Cobbler
Filling:
4 cups strawberries, fresh or frozen
1/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. instant tapioca
1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice

Topping:
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
4 Tbsp. cold, unsalted butter, cut into cubes
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Butter a 9x9" baking dish. In a large bowl, mix together the strawberries, sugar, tapioca & lemon juice. Pour into the baking dish. In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the flour, coconut, sugar, walnuts, baking powder & salt from the topping ingredients. Use a fork to mix in the cubes of butter. Stir the butter into the other ingredients until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Sprinkle the topping over the filling. Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown & crispy & the filling bubbles. Let cool for at least an hour before serving.