Strawberry Season

Just have to tell you'll the strawberry bed built last year is a success!



Before



After


getting a gallon of berries every day



                                                                     Strawberry Shortcake




Jars of Jam
taste so strawberry



Gotta go pick some more. The strawberries are getting ripe and red and sweeter as I write this.
Gonna make a strawberry pie for Donald, as he's been out in the corn field for days and
a fresh strawberry pie will taste delicious!


PS:  Store bought strawberries have among the highest levels of pesticide residue found in fruit.
       Please buy local and support your local farmers, or buy organic.


                                    

Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable?

It grows like a vegetable, but it is cooks and eats like a fruit.
It is also the first, of the Season, to ripen. When ripe, the fruit is green and crisp.
And the leaves are poisonous. Its the Rhubarb plant that anyone can grow.




The green stalk plant is a more rubust grower
than the red stalk plant, but the red stalks are more popular.
The stalks are full of vitamin C and K.


The classic dishes for rhubarb combines it with strawberries for pie or jams or crumbles.
But strawberries are not ripe here yet.
So I decided to make a rhubarb compote.
Compote is fruit sauce for yogurt or ice-cream or to spoon over cake.




Rhubarb Compote