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All is safely gathered in

by HML

The containers aren’t very picturesque, but it’s what’s inside that counts:  homemade strawberry freezer jam, made from local berries.  The fruit stand expects that our strawberry season will only last through June; we have to enjoy them while we can.  I hope we have enough jam here to get Team Gimlet through the winter.

Yesterday Thing One got his cast on his broken wrist.  It’s no fun having to wear a cast for the summer, so after the doctor’s appointment we had homemade strawberry milkshakes.

Another way to enjoy our local berries is this Strawberry Clafouti recipe from Sunset magazine.   Very easy to make, this clafouti is delicious as a summery dessert or for weekend brunch.  When I made it, I  just filled the bottom of the gratin dish with chopped berries instead of the measured amount, because at this time of year, you can never have too many fresh strawberries.

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2 Responses to “All is safely gathered in”

  1. Jackie
    June 27th, 2009 19:44
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    Send on your freezer jam recipe. All I found had twice as much sugar as fruit. Not that I mind sugar….but I might as well just put a full tblspoon of sugar on their toast in the morning.

    We picked 13 pounds of strawberries last week, more to come.

  2. HML
    June 28th, 2009 16:15
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    Uh-oh … I can feel my virtue points diminishing as I confess that I use the recipe in the Sure-Jell packet. You know, the one with the ratio of twice as much sugar as fruit? ;-)

    According to my mom, you could use the sugar-free recipe (pink Sure-Jell packets) but she says the jam won’t taste anywhere near as good as the sugar version.