At the end of spring break, we decided to go to the nearby strawberry patch to pick some berries for our family. Apparently, lots of other people had had the same idea.
Almost all of the ripe, red strawberries were gone! We found a few good ones in between the mostly green ones.
After a few minutes of searching, we decided that we'd come back the next weekend.
At least we were able to enjoy the sunny, warm weather! :)
The next weekend was windy and cooler ... BUT bright, red, juicy strawberries abounded! We were content in one area until another strawberry picker suggested we try the back of the patch (where the "really BIG ones" were).
We were able to pick 8 pounds of yummy berries in just a few minutes (and that's not even counting the quality control ones that Ian consumed)!
Ryan was happy to be an onlooker for most of the time,
while Ian wanted to be an active participant ...
and sampler.
They ARE really big, aren't they?
Even Ryan snuck in a bite!
Our covert sampler got quite a few chuckles as we left the strawberry patch.
We enjoyed eating the strawberries plain, on waffles, in strawberry shortcake, AND we even tried to make our own strawberry jam! Ian crunched up the strawberries
(with Ryan's supervision), and then we cooked them into jam. It turned out delicious and the
recipe was very easy! The smell reminded me of my Grandma Sylvester's kitchen!
1 comment:
I'm so jealous that you were able to go strawberry picking already! When I said that out loud Brian's comment was well we can move to Texas and bake all summer, so I guess there are tradeoffs :)
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