Friday, April 09, 2021

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.  

23 comments:

  1. The Good Life is one of my favorite series! I have the whole set and watch it at least once a year. In fact, we just started watching it again a couple of nights ago. The character of Margo Leadbetter is priceless. Here's to the Good Life!

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  2. I love all my berries, especially blueberries. I planted three blueberry bushes four years ago...and they take about that time to yield fruit...so this could be the summer they finally bring bounty.

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    1. Fruit fresh off the bush, I'd need a farmer to help.

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  3. I've always been a stickler for having garden fruit washed before I'll eat it. However, after sampling a raspberry from the garden when I was very little, that's the one fruit that didn't have to be washed.

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    1. I have eaten a lot of strawberries while picking them,

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  4. Anonymous4/09/2021

    Gosh, Margot in The Good Life. Blackberries for me, ta and thanks.

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    1. I have to admit, I identified with Tom's desire to chuck the work world - 28 more months

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  5. I love berry season; those berries at the top are making me hungry.

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  6. I love all berries except blueberries because, for the same reason I don't like cherry tomatoes, they pop in your mouth.

    Yes, I'm odd. I know.

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    1. you don't want to know where my dirty mind went with the phrase "they pop in your mouth". ;-b

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    2. Mine, too! I immediately thought, “You don't like that, Bob?"

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    3. What a fun bunch!

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  7. That sounds like a delicious way to start the day.

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  8. Sensible! you will live long on this sort of stuff.

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  9. Mmmmm, I love them all! Always a treat, whether fresh or in baking.

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    1. I look forward to local strawberries

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  10. Love berries of all kinds. I have to limit my consumption these days, but would otherwise be a daily staple here as well.

    Sassybear
    www.idleeyesandadormy.com

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