Foodie Friday - Soft Fruits

 There was a Britcom from the mid 1970's, that aired in the USA under the name The Good Life in the UK, The Good Neighbors in the USA,  the premise is that Tom Good decides to chuck his job designing toys to go in cereal boxes, for self sufficiency, turning his suburban lawn into a market garden.  At the end of his first growing season a local restaunteer advises him to grow things that are hard to grow, limited in supply, like soft fruits.  Raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries.  The good stuff.  

On the farm when I was growing up, we had a small raspberry patch, blackberries grew wild (as they do along the walk from the condo to the metro station), and at one point we had a couple acres of strawberries, down from five acres before I was born.  Blueberries we didn't have on the farm, there was a pick-your-own commercial blueberry farm about 20 minutes away and we went several times.  

We keep a covered bowl of soft fruits in the refrigerator most of the time.  Blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries most of the time.  We wash them, lightly sweeten them.  A bowl of them is often my breakfast.