The farm is just a few miles down the road.
And we love our yearly tradition of filling the buckets (and our bellies) with sweet, red, delicious strawberries.
What a wonderful way to spend a weekday afternoon. I picked the boys up from school in the car rider line and we went straight to the fields. There were only three or four other families there, so we had our row to ourselves.
Truth be told, Scott was really the only *great* helper. Amanda ate more than she placed in the bucket (including several green berries.) Andrew was careful to select pretty berries, but tired long before his bucket was full.
Normally we freeze all that we can't eat within a week. We enjoy strawberries all year frozen or in smoothies.
But this year we actually used them in recipes. The first was the pink lemonade that I've been promising Amanda for months. We blended the berries in our hand blender, added the juice of two lemons, some sugar and water. Delicious!!
The second was an amazing strawberry meringue cake, a recipe that was featured on the cover of Southern Living this month. It looked nothing like the cake on the cover (did I really think it would?) My cake may not sell many magazines, but it won the hearts of my family.
Actually the only thing I would do differently is make the meringue into cookies and serve them as individual little cakes. This cake was hard to cut.
The rest of the berries are in the freezer...waiting to be eaten as a special treat in the heat of July and August. Mmmmmm....good.
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