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.

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[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.