Kitchen Tip Tuesday

My Kitchen Tip is about preparing, freezing, and using strawberries.
This past weekend my husband picked us a flat of strawberries. The first thing I do is "head" them. Meaning I cut off the green part on top. While your doing this inspect each one making sure they don't look wormy or they aren't too ripe (mushy and dark). Then I dump them in the sink, fill it up with cold water, and wash them by sort of swirling them around. Then I scoop up a hand full, keeping my fingers separated so any stray leaves or straw stays in the water, and put them in a clean bowl. I repeat this at least one more time. Then I lay them out on cookie sheets and freeze for a couple hours. Once they are hard, I put them in a freezer bag. They'll keep good for 3 months.
Cheaters Strawberry Pie
1 Qt fresh strawberries
1 container strawberry pie glaze
1 ready made pie crust
1 container cool whip
Bake pie crust as directed. Stomp your foot when it gets over done, puffs up, or the sides fall. Swear you'll never us that ready made crust again. Add strawberry's (whole if your too lazy to slice them) to crust. Spread glaze over berries. Top with cool whip until you can't tell whats underneath.