strawberries!

[ilanarama]

Such a fleeting joy, the season of strawberries. Real strawberries, local strawberries; thimble-sized strawberries that taste like pure strawberry-essence. Durango Natural Foods has Chimney Rock strawberries for $4.49 a 16oz box, which is almost twice the cost of the fat and bland industrial California berries at City Market, but they are ten times better.

I am going to have strawberry pancakes for breakfast, and strawberries on the side of my lunch sandwich, and strawberries on my ice cream for dessert after dinner EVERY DAY until strawberry season is over.

YAY STRAWBERRIES.

Comments

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty sad that, living where I live, I can't enjoy the taste of real strawberries unless I grow them, can't revel in a decent peach unless I buy one at a roadside stand 4 hours out into agricultural country, and never even see ollalieberries unless I drive out to Gilroy and pick 'em myself. (Which is fun, of course, but not as fun as picking blackberries wild, because I kind of like the drama of coming back scratched and bleeding. There's no thrill of conquest at a farm that features well-tended, evenly-spaced walls of berry bushes.)

With strawberries as good as the ones you've got right now, strawberry shortcake is almost overkill. Save that dish for the fat bland ones!

Yay strawberries!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the problem with living in a city is you can get everything that's shipped everywhere but nothing local.

And I have fond memories of picking blackberries from the bushes in the vacant lot down the street where I grew up, until the bushes were razed for a Cadillac dealership. Sigh.

[goldispikes.livejournal.com]

Strawberries rock! I miss picking them in NC...that sandy soil is perfect, and the snakes make it adventurous.

Right now I'm enjoying the cherries. The mass markets have Bing cherries, but they're not good. The natural markets, and oddly, Safeway, have Pink Ladies. I am eating a handful of them every few hours. I'm out at the moment, must go back for reinforcements.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

The Ranier are the ones I love, but boy are they pricy.

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

I've bought two flats and two quarts (total 14 quarts) of local strawberries. Some berries have been eaten fresh (I eat some every day), some have been frozen as whole fruit, a few were made into homemade ice cream, I made a strawberry rhubarb pie (catbear and I prefer straight rhubarb pie), and I've put up three different kinds of strawberry jam.

When I lived at Chateau Suburbia, there was a patch of alpine strawberries at the side of the house. They're tiny berries with a rich flavour. I miss them.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Mmm! Alas the work we had done on our house while gone eradicated our two wild strawberry plants and our rhubarb (although one of our rhubarb plants might be salvageable).

I love rhubarb-apple crisp. Hopefully we'll have rhubarb next year.

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

The big gardening season we just passed was that it was STRAWBERRY LEAVES season for the neighborhood bunnies. They nibbled my new plants down to the quick. And the pepper plants and cabbage followed quickly behind.

So much for the home garden. At least the tomatoes still have a shot.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee! We don't have a bunny problem but we used to have a major deer problem when I lived in Boulder. Ended up putting up an electric fence, just so I could have vegetables.

[saramwrap.livejournal.com]

*jealous*

I grew up picking berries in Florida and Georgia... I don't think I've had a wholly delicious strawberry feast in a decade or more.

I think I'd be even more jealous if my sushi-and-coffee lunch hadn't made me a little queasy.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we are all conditioned by the supermarkets to accept plastic berries.

I love your icon!

[de-wynken.livejournal.com]

happy to be back? I did leave some comments over the winter, not sure if you found them.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I found some of them! I didn't have net access and was posting by email so I couldn't see lj comments.

Yeah, I'm mostly happy to be back. I need a job and my house is a mess, but other than that...it's Colorado, yay!

[de-wynken.livejournal.com]

I figured they'd be fun to find when y'all got back :)

no job/messy house=join the club! :) Actually we finished rehab'ing one this winter and moved in, just doing the final 20 percent now. How's your's coming? If y'all need any caulking/staining done, I'm available, good, and cheap.