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Those look luscious! We've been enjoying fruit salad with greek yogurt - nectarines, grapes strawberries tossed with a bit of pomegranate molasses and honey. Or just a cup of really good thick yogurt, like Liberte Mediternee Plum & Walnut, or Cabot greek-style dulce de leche.

That strawberry pie looks like a jello dessert my mom used to make using cool whip, jello and frozen sweetened strawberries. Nice to find a vegetarian version. (meaning one with no gelatin.)

In Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, there's a recipe for a no-cook nut/dried fruit tart crust that you can fill with whatever you like, really. The recipe couldn't be simpler: you blitz nuts in a food processor, empty it, then blitz the dried fruit of your choice with a bit of water to get things going. Mix them together and press into a tart pan.

I love this idea because it's something that my friends with food intolerances can eat, ie it's gluten-free.

I recently made it with almonds and dried apricots and filled with sliced Hood strawberries. Served with whipped cream.

i've made the strawberry cream pie twice in rapid succession--and loved every luscious bit of it (as have my partner and various dinner/vacationing guests)!

the second time, i made the pie in a springform pan, and the presentation was even more impressive!