Did you know that strawberries come in all these shapes? (image from here)
Last summer C and I picked an overwhelming 23 pounds of berries, all shapes and sizes and sweetnesses, from a farm in Pennsylvania. We happened to choose the day we were having a heat wave, so we were glad not to have strawberry soup by the time we got home with our haul. We ate our fill and then filled our freezer with enough berries to last us through spring!
This summer we were a bit more moderate in our picking - only 17 pounds! They filled our fridge.
So we ate and ate - strawberries on our waffles, strawberry smoothies, the best strawberry rhubarb pie I've ever had - we combined three recipes to get it just the way we wanted. Oh, it was good!
And now we have our stock of frozen berries put away, like squirrels with a freezer full of delicious nuts.
Thinking we might pick some blueberries over the long weekend! I love summer. Happy fourth of July!
And happy birthday to my Gramma, who turns 88 today.
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