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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / May 2004Strawberries!!!
It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with fresh produce! Today, I picked up the most luscious, sweet, juicy strawberries. I also bought apricots, shallots, baby greens, goat cheese and a whole striped bass. I had an awesome recipe for the goat cheese. I sliced it into discs, dipped them in egg white, then Panko crumbs (Japanese bread crumbs), spiced with lots of herbs. And then I grilled them, serving them on a bed of baby greens tossed with a simple vineagrette. Three of these rounds in a salad and a bowlful of strawberries made my whole day. :D The bass I'll braise for dinner and eat with an artichoke and a big salad. Martha > It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with > fresh produce! > > Today, I picked up the most luscious, sweet, juicy strawberries. I also > bought apricots, shallots, baby greens, goat cheese and a whole striped > bass. We've been enjoying fresh strawberries for the last two weeks here. I just got back from a party where we all ended up bringing some type of strawberry dessert item. I've been slicing them and putting them in salad, cottage cheese, or yogurt. They also taste good in a balsamic vinaigrette. Jenn > We've been enjoying fresh strawberries for the last two weeks here. Wow! Ours won't be ready until Father's Day at least :-/  SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 > > We've been enjoying fresh strawberries for the last two weeks here. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 207/110 60 inches of attitude! > Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 Mine are just beginning to ripen. My granddaughter and I were weeding the vegetable bed yesterday and noticed a few ripe berries in my strawberry bed. We took a small break and enjoyed berries straight off the vine :) Beverly > > It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with > > fresh produce! [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Jenn You know, I never buy fruit when it's out of season. Sure, I could spend some bucks and get South American strawberries in the winter, but they taste terrible. These strawberries taste so wonderful, I can think of few things that are as good. Martha A Mon, 24 May 2004 00:32:59 GMT, "MH" <bastzine@worldnet.att.net> escribió: > You know, I never buy fruit when it's out of season. Sure, I could spend > some bucks and get South American strawberries in the winter, but they taste > terrible. That's one of the great things about Whole Foods markets. We sometimes gets strawberries in winter that taste as great as the ones we're getting now. Of course, they're insanely expensive. Still, it would be nice if they could do the same with watermelons! <grin> -- bicker® "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan http://humanist.net http://www.csicop.org http://www.skeptic.com > It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with > fresh produce! Martha, I love your food posts <S> SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 > > It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with > > fresh produce! > > Martha, I love your food posts <S> Thanks, Laurie. I miss posting them. Things have been rather screwed around here since I got back from vacation. I finally as if things are getting back to normal. It's been rough. Martha Strawberries are almost past here, now I have to try to wait patiently for the Freestone Peaches of Central Texas Susan with her mouth watering.. 260/193/140 > It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with > fresh produce! [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Martha I used to pick fresh strawberries when I lived in Mass. However, we just don't seem to grow them around these parts. I have to check out our farmer's market. > It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with > fresh produce! [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Martha > I used to pick fresh strawberries when I lived in Mass. However, we just > don't seem to grow them around these parts. I have to check out our > farmer's market. We have a strawberry festival in a neighboring town in early June. You can find everything strawberry there - pie, shortcake, donuts. Even the fountain in the middle of town turns 'strawberry red' for the event. > > It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with > > fresh produce! [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > > Martha "Beverly" wrote: > We have a strawberry festival in a neighboring town in early June. > You can find everything strawberry there - pie, shortcake, donuts. > Even the fountain in the middle of town turns 'strawberry red' for the > event. In North Brooklin we used to have a Blueberry Festival in August. Started with blueberry pancakes and went all day. Infighting at the community hall dampened our interest. Now when they're ripe we just walk the fields and gorge <g> How perfect is it to have free food along the road?? My husband says I have to help rake this summer because I ate so many blueberries this past winter :-/ SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 I Love Blueberries! I used to live in NY and we had a blackberry bush in the back yard. I used to eat a ton of fresh picked berries. They were yummy! > > We have a strawberry festival in a neighboring town in early June. > > You can find everything strawberry there - pie, shortcake, donuts. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > 207/110 60 inches of attitude! > Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 > I Love Blueberries! I used to live in NY and we had a blackberry bush > in the back yard. I used to eat a ton of fresh picked berries. They > were yummy! Indeed they are! Raking isn't the hard part - at least you get to move. But then you have to sit and pick them over to get out the stray leaves, twigs and varmints before you freeze them. Honest to God - it's backbreakingly tedious. But they are free! SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 > > We have a strawberry festival in a neighboring town in early June. > > You can find everything strawberry there - pie, shortcake, donuts. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > My husband says I have to help rake this summer because I ate so many > blueberries this past winter :-/ We don't grow too many blueberries around here. I had a couple plants but the rabbits ate them :( They are one of my favorites but I only buy them in season as they're just too expensive otherwise. Currently they're about $5 a pint. I often buy them frozen for smoothies. I'm waiting for the blueberry season to arrive. I use to know where all the wild blackberry/raspberry patches were when I was a kid. We would stop to eat them when we were riding our bikes. Mother always knew where we had been because of the berry stains on our hands and clothing. Beverly > I use to know where all the wild blackberry/raspberry patches were > when I was a kid. We would stop to eat them when we were riding our > bikes. Mother always knew where we had been because of the berry > stains on our hands and clothing. This IS my definition of Heaven: carrying my bowl of cereal to the backyard on a warm summer morning and picking *perfect* raspberries to put on top. (it's pretty good to come back from a walk and just sorta munch them too <s>) I'll take a picture when they come on. OH! I just remembered - putting them on spinach salad!! SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 > > I use to know where all the wild blackberry/raspberry patches were > > when I was a kid. We would stop to eat them when we were riding our [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I'll take a picture when they come on. Why not send a bucket full and I'll take the picture<G> > OH! I just remembered - putting them on spinach salad!! > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 207/110 60 inches of attitude! > Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 "Beverly"wrote: >> "SnugBear" wrote: >> I'll take a picture when they come on. > > Why not send a bucket full and I'll take the picture<G> Come and get them yourself. Bring bikes ;-) SignatureWalking on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 > "Beverly"wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Come and get them yourself. Bring bikes ;-) That sounds so great. If this summer weren't overbooked already I'd have those bikes on the rack and headed to Maine :) Beverly >It's spring time at the farmers' market and I am up to my eyeballs with >fresh produce! [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Martha Thanks for reminding me Martha. I love strawberries and eat lots of them during the season, but haven't really got going yet this year. I generally eat mine with low fat fromage frais - yummy. janice |
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