Essential’s Baked Strawberry Recipe:

💥chop cleaned strawberries

🍓fill jar with strawberries, mix syrup of your choice into lemon juice and drizzle on chopped strawberries in the jar

(Our suggestions: maple, agave, or simple syrup)

❄️chill for later if need a break, otherwise pour into pan and place in oven (Preheat 375, Bake 350 for <15 min)

🫙pour baked strawberries into jar and let cool, then place in fridge for later

Portioning: I did 3 separate mason jars just so the strawberries fit into the pan without overflowing, but we did give half a pint of fresh berries to a friend (I couldn’t resist they looked too good) so I may have needed a fourth jar if I hadn’t. Really depends how you chop them👩🏻‍🌾

📝drizzle lemon juice on top of the jar full of sliced strawberries that has already been mixed with syrup of your choice (pour a third of the lemon juice squeezed from a medium sized lemon, and not too much syrup, just enough to coat the strawberries as it drizzles)

I decided to shake the jar and set it overnight in the fridge. The raw strawberries should NOT need to be submerged in syrup. This will be too sweet. Leave space.

Made with… love and angst. Why so moody? I just want to go for a run, was invited to go on a run but it’s not the same for so many as it is for me. I need to try therapy that scares me to get better so I don’t miss out on life. I hate feeling left out of my own life at times. I’m not supposed to be angry about any of it because that just makes me an unpleasant person to be around 🤷‍♀️🏃‍♀️ this body of mine is getting to me ⏰😤