I am sure you all know how to make a strawberry daiquiri. This is a very simple version for sun ripened fruit. Put on your favourite pinny, a big floppy straw hat and go out into the garden. Pick all the sweet juicy strawberries you can see. 
In a blender out on the verandah. Ice, strawberries, rum and lime. (My version is 2 shots of rum, a big handful of strawberries, a big handful of ice, 1/2 shot of lime juice). 
Blend and pour. These are the only glasses I have that are respectable. The Matriarch said she was not drinking daquiris out of a canning jar. Serve. Then sit and watch the hummingbird in the lilac without a sound whilst sipping. 
After a while, I ask The Matriarch what she thinks. She says not enough ice and too much rum. Hmm. A clash of cultures. Never mind. I make another batch without using the shot glass, add more ice and a few glugs of the rum. Maybe she will not notice the rum if she gets more ice. Are we ever going to get to taste this, she comments with just a touch of thirst, as I photograph the second batch. She is endlessly patient with me and tries to cover her sighs with her hand. 
She finally gets a taste of the second batch. Perfect she says. Then after another while of sitting and looking over the garden, she says. Now, I bet you can’t do that again. Suffice to say that we did do it again! But that was the end of the photo session.
Good morning. The evening we spent on the verandah last night was simply perfect, especially with our Simple Strawberry Daquiris. Many recipes call for sugar or sugar water. I made up some of my vanilla infused sugar water but did not use it. The strawberries were beautifully sweet and tasty without.
Today has dawned already, the sky is clear, the air is still, the light is beautiful and the animals are all stood at their gates watching the kitchen door waiting patiently. Except the pigs, they always sleep the latest.
Have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
70 responses to “How to make a Simple Strawberry Daquiri”
That’s a well spent evening – red sky at night, shepherd’s delight:)
and shepherds head in the morning!! (quiet laughter!).. c
Yes, I am all about strawberry margaritas, daquiris. and the like these days. Anything to help use the abundance or those lovely read nibbles in my garden.
Aren’t they tasty straight from the garden! c
Strawberry daiquiris by the pool are a Christmas day staple for me and the BB. Delicious, but better still with garden-grown strawberries I’d guess.
oh that sounds perfect! c
Loved the remark about the photo session being finished at a “certain point” of the evening… 🙂
sounds like a great drink, I’ve never had it, but we love mixed drinks with rum – and lime juice is always in our concoctions.
Glad you had a great time…
Lime juice is a great accent isn’t it sally.. have a great day! c
Sounds like a perfect drink and a perfect evening!
“… go out into the garden. Pick all the sweet juicy strawberries you can see.”
That would leave me with just the rum. Probably not a good idea.
Oh i don’t know.. ! c
Sounds delicious! Probably more of your Hot Toddy weather here though!!!
Christine
When is your summer going to come?! I must pop over and see how brenda is.. c
Looks and sounds delicious. Love the photo of the strawberries in the basket. Have a lovely day.
Regards Florence x
Morning Florence.. c
Those strawberries look perfect. I was going to try this, but realized I probably don’t have a pinny. I even lack the floppy straw hat. (sigh) I am so uncultured. Or male, which is the same thing, really. Good morning!
Hmm, maybe we could borrow you a floppy hat from your mum and I think blokes look great in pinnys! You could try it!! c
it sounds like a perfect evening. lazy piggies! i bet they snore too!
exactly joyce!! lazy piggies.. c
I think these daiquiris would be perfectly lovely out of canning jars, Celi, especially out on the verandah of a farmhouse.
AND with the jars you have a lid to keep the bugs out if you are drinking slowly! morning sharyn.. c
I thought that was only for whiskey with Rednecks 😉
really!? Cool! c
Looks gorgeous, Celi: and I love that you only have two glasses. We have about six, unmatching and different sizes….
Morning Kate!! all my crockery is different too but all white! I love buying just two of something. i don’t think i have ever bought a set in my life!! c
Those look so good! I can’t wait to move and plant a huge garden next year. There will definitely be a lot of strawberries!
Have a lovely day ~ April
I am looking forward to you developing a new property too, but you will be sad to leave the gorgeous little garden that you have! c
Yes, I love our yard. Don’t like all the neighbor’s breathing down our necks though! I don’t have vegetable gardens anymore…Tony and Brandon over sprayed them with fence spray so they were no longer organic. Grr… Men, such goofs sometimes. Anyway, now they are flower gardens. I’m ready to move on to the next chapter. Chickens and a HUGE organic garden (no where near a fence)!!
I am getting excited for you and we have SO LONG to wait!
I bet I’d love them without the rum! I have no head for likker but I adore strawberries in any shape or form. Shame the sun hasn’t seen fit to ripen ours yet. Lovely photographs.
It is just as good without the rum too! It would be a fab strawberry slushy! c
Sipping strawberry daiquiri, watching the sun slowly go down… It is a beautiful thought without a doubt 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Morning Chip… I must pop over and see what you are up to! c
nothing new yet but soon (a little guest posting action so hopefully soon ;))
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru