Cherry season!

[azurelunatic]

Strawberry season is tapering off, so the strawberries are bigger (better for dipping, less easy to just pop in your mouth, less tasty) but cherry season is getting going!

I came home with a half-flat of strawberries (six little baskets) and six pints of cherries, plus a large number of apricots.

http://azurelunatic.tumblr.com/post/5938519216/6-pints-of-cherries


Last week I ran short of fruit, and had to get some more midway through the week. Fresher, but I'd been hoping to do fewer shopping runs. Alas.

Comments

[ursamajor]

Heh, it's still so weird to think of strawberry season being almost over in the Bay when I was chatting with one of my local farmers, and he promised the first strawberries of the season would arrive to market on Wednesday. Any stone fruit is still at least a month away; for the most part here, it's asparagus, green garlic/ramps, fiddleheads, and leafy greens.

[azurelunatic]

There will be more strawberries. But I find that I'm growing far more picky in the sort that I prefer, now that I have all this fresh fruit and don't have to settle for the sort of produce that gets shipped.

[ursamajor]

Oh, totally. I could pick up the gargantuan flavor-reduced ones at the supermarket here (California strawberries show up there nearly year-round), but especially with berries and other similarly delicate fruits, I'm convinced breeding in durability to make that sort of journey breeds out the taste. They'll be okay for cooking-type purposes, but around here, MA-grown will beat CA-grown-and-flown for taste every time.

(I do hope there's still some strawberries at market when I'm in SF at the end of the month :) )