Saturday, June 17, 2006
Unfortunately I have no pictures of the boys in the actual process of picking the strawberries. We seem to have a million cameras laying around the house but none of them are currently usable. Either the batteries are dead or we don't have a memory card or we're out of film. It's the same thing with computers--we have a lot of them but all of them have their ticks--some are missing keys, some don't have keys that work, one has a virus, one doesn't have the internet, one you can't play Starcraft on, etc. But with that said, we did have a great time picking strawberries. It was overcast and cool (which is perfect berry picking weather) and came home with 20+ pounds of ripe red and juicy strawberries. Caleb was content most of the time climbing all over me while I tried to pick berries but he did manage to make his way over to my basket where he helped himself to a berry or two. Reminded me of Blueberries for Sal only Stawberries for Caleb instead. Little rascal. Hunter worked his little bottom off and picked this whole basket of strawberries on his own.
Noah and Denver happily padded along behind Chris and Ben and managed to pick enough beautiful berries to make this delicious concoction of which we'll be serving to the missionaries tomorrow:
And I couldn't resist making some of these of which I ate more than my allotted three servings but enjoyed every bite of:
Hunter refused to let me touch his strawberries because he's saving them to make Strawberry Jam for his end-of-year gift to Mrs. H. So looks like we'll be making some Jam tomorrow and of course, it's not strawberry season if we don't have some of Mark's Homemade Strawberry Pudding. So, the strawberry eating festivities will continue for a few more days and then it's time for Blueberries Season. I can almost taste that Homemade Blueberry Pie already. Yum!
Mark's Homemade Strawberry Pudding
1 cup strawberry puree
3-1/2 Tbsp. cornstarch
2/3 cup sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
1-2/3 cups milk
1/3 cup cream
1 tsp. vanilla
Warm strawberry puree in microwave (about 1 to 1-1/2 minutes). Set aside. Mix dry ingredients together in saucepan. Gradually add milk and cream, stirring constantly over medium to high heat. Heat until pudding thickens and cook for 1 additional minute. Remove from heat and let cool 5-10 minutes before adding strawberry puree. Add vanilla and mix well. Serve warm or chilled.
posted by Shana # 7:11 AM 
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