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Yummy Strawberries

June 16, 2011 By Carole

Our CSA share last week included 2 quarts of strawberries with the option to pick an additional 2 quarts ourselves. I don’t generally participate in these PYO opportunities but I love strawberries so I couldn’t resist. It also helped that my friend Jo-Ann offered to let me pick her 2 quarts and keep them since she was going to be out of town and couldn’t do it herself.

Six quarts of strawberries is a lot of strawberries!

And picking them wasn’t easy. For one thing, it was raining. For another, strawberry plants are low to the ground. I spent twenty minutes or so kneeling in the strawberry patch, plucking sweet red berries. I soon discovered that they make a satisfying little “pop” when they are ripe and I honestly enjoyed the picking once I gave myself over to the experience.

I was a muddy mess by the time I was done but it was definitely worth it.

I froze 3 quarts, I made another strawberry pie, and I saved some for just plain eating.

Local strawberries from the CSA, that’s a very good thing.

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  1. stacy says

    June 16, 2011 at 6:03 am

    Yummy!

  2. Judy says

    June 16, 2011 at 6:26 am

    I can’t wait to pick some this weekend! Any tips on freezing them?

  3. Gale says

    June 16, 2011 at 7:29 am

    There’s nothing quite like a strawberry right out of the garden and warmed by the sun. Mmmmm.

  4. Kym says

    June 16, 2011 at 8:31 am

    What beauties! And how wonderful that you found the “zen” in the picking! I just ordered extra strawberries from my CSA . . . but I don’t have to pick them! 🙂 I’d like to freeze some, though . . . suggestions welcome!

  5. margene says

    June 16, 2011 at 8:49 am

    What? No jam? 😉
    Fresh strawberries are just heavenly.

  6. JessaLu says

    June 16, 2011 at 9:11 am

    Yum!

  7. jill says

    June 16, 2011 at 9:25 am

    We were discussing your baked strawberry pie over dinner one day earlier this week, and my baking daughter who is addicted to Joy the Baker’s blog said she had a strawberry upside down cake that looked interesting too. That night we enjoyed a GF modified version of the cooked strawberry cake with whipped cream. Thank you for the inspiration!! AND those berry shots are Beee- u- tifiul!

  8. Jo-Ann says

    June 16, 2011 at 10:00 am

    So glad you could pick & enjoy the extra berries 🙂 No sense in letting them sit there when you were going anyway!! Wish I could have had a piece of that strawberry pie, really need to make one myself!!

  9. Cathy R says

    June 16, 2011 at 10:05 am

    I am now drooling on my keyboard! Fresh picked strawberries are the absolute best!!

  10. Cookie says

    June 16, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    What?! No jam? ;^)

  11. Hillary says

    June 16, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    Yummy!

  12. elizabeth says

    June 16, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    JAM!!!! ;o)

  13. Sara says

    June 16, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    Just one word: YUMMY!

  14. mary says

    June 17, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    um definitely worth it! I HATE to get dirty but I would’ve gladly muddied feet and knees and arms for that harvest! I managed to find a few good-looking baskets at my grocery yesterday… to make this cake.

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