Strawberries! Yes!

[Jst1mr]

At long last, the local berry stands are offering up these gift-from-the-heavens berries!!! I grabbed a "flat" ($30 ?!!) because my back is a long way from permitting strawberry picking. Oh my, the vehicle was soon filled with a delicious aroma, and after getting home my fingers were soon stained red from "stemming"(and eating every fourth one or so). Are these things even distantly related to the junk available year around in the grocery store? Home-baked shortcake tonight, liberally doused with berries, some cream, and topped with REAL whipped cream...then maybe a pie, or perhaps poured over a bowl of french vanilla ice cream, or home made jam.... Who else loves strawberries?

 

[vytoland]

strawberries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they were part of the garden inventory when I was a kid. NOTHING compares with the taste of freshly pick fruits and vegetables from the garden.....

 

[kozmic]

We get wild strawberries and blackberries all around our yard. The blackberries are excellent, but the strawberries are pretty small and just OK tasting. Thankfully there's a huge strawberry farm a few miles from here. Their's are amazing. Nature's candy for sure!

 

[wbraswell]

I love them. I will be on the lookout for them. I'm going to our farmer's market tomorrow morning.

 

[Salty RI]

We get wild strawberries and blackberries all around our yard. The blackberries are excellent, but the strawberries are pretty small and just OK tasting. Thankfully there's a huge strawberry farm a few miles from here. Their's are amazing. Nature's candy for sure!

We have wild strawberries as well, our's are sweet, I just can't get down on my hands and knees and look through the grass to pick them any more.

 

[tops]

At long last, the local berry stands are offering up these gift-from-the-heavens berries!!! I grabbed a "flat" ($30 ?!!) because my back is a long way from permitting strawberry picking. Oh my, the vehicle was soon filled with a delicious aroma, and after getting home my fingers were soon stained red from "stemming"(and eating every fourth one or so). Are these things even distantly related to the junk available year around in the grocery store? Home-baked shortcake tonight, liberally doused with berries, some cream, and topped with REAL whipped cream...then maybe a pie, or perhaps poured over a bowl of french vanilla ice cream, or home made jam.... Who else loves strawberries?

We are earlier than you so our strawberries are long gone. About a month ago we kept my wifes cousin grandkids. (10 and 12 yrs. old) She gave them some strawberry cake with REAL whipped cream and they wanted to know what brand whipped cream that was. She explained what REAL whipped cream is and they told their mama that from now on they wanted Real whipped cream. Strawberries, whipped cream and pancakes makes a pretty good breakfast. Larry

 

[Arik]

When it comes to fruit I don't shop grocery stores. Pure ****. Strawberries started hitting the shelves here in February right as we got the huge ice storm that knocked out power for a large part of the Philadelphia area. The local farmers market was selling strawberries for 50 cents a container. It was either that or throw them away. They were excellent.

That being said, I don't know if it's the US market or a sign of the times but I remember back in the old country fruit had an amazing smell. You could smell grapes from blocks away. Same with strawberries and cherries. What an amazing smell. Fruit has no smell here. Almost like they are fake. Back home they weren't always perfect looking but they had this smell. .....I still miss it

 

[coltle6920]

Can't beat sweet ripe strawberries when they're available.

Not to hijack the thread but I lived in one of the best neighborhoods while growing up.We had a peach tree and a nectarine tree in our backyard.Behind us were black berry bushes.A block away there were green grape vines in a yard.There was a sickle pear tree on the way to school.

Mom always wondered why we didn't come in for lunch during the summer.

Every couple of weeks Dad would take us for ice cream and a ride across the river to New Jersey to buy corn and tomatoes from the farmers.

 

[shouldazagged]

I'm not supposed to eat them (diverticulitis), but to hell with that. If I can get the good ones, I'm on them like a duck on a June bug.

 

[feralmerril]

When I was a kid I had a job picking em. Seems we got either 2 or 5 cents a box.

 

[sureshotbob]

My wife picked up a flat last weekend . She paid $4.00 a quart from a old farmer at a roadside stand. They were very good we made shortcake and also just had them with whipped cream.
We finished them up last night.

 

[islamoradamark]

we have to wait till winter down her e to get good ones but its mangos and avocados right now

 

[Texas Star]

I have strawberries in the refrigerator now and will eat some tonight.

I'm also very fond of blackberries.

 

[fat tom]

I love 'em. In fact,I love ALL kinds of berries. Well,dingle berries not so much.
f.t.

 

[Shooting Padre]

Ah, strawberry shortcake, the desert of the heavens. Absolutely nothing like it. Right after a BLT and corn on the cob. Oh man, I gotta go.