Strawberry Salads

Two strawberry salads, great ways to show off spring strawberries. The first strawberry salad is so special, it's worth saving for tender home-grown strawberries. But no worry, the second strawberry salad works beautifully with supermarket strawberries. Both use Candied Almonds, gorgeous orbs of nutty sweetness. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipes ~ ~ Strawberry Pepper Salad ~ ~ Strawberry Spinach Salad with Homemade Poppy Seed Dressing ~ ~ Candied Almonds ~ COMPLIMENTS! "Holy moly ... may be the world's best use of strawberries." ~ Jo Beth "Strawberries with almonds and parmesan and pepper.... mmm!" ~ Anonymous Waiting, Waiting, Waiting ... Each year, as the last days of May slip into the first hours of June, the local strawberries are fat and juicy and perfect. The season seems to last a whole ten seconds, a couple of weeks at most – but only in a good year, for reality depends on sun and rain and temperature, the unpredictabili