It's strawberry season on the Tennessee Kentucky stateline! This weekend I helped pick strawberries on the family farm. These photos are from one days pickin'. Needless to say mama and daddy have been busy in the garden harvesting these little berries and preparing them for the freezer...that is if they were not consumed first! Strawberries are full of vitamin C and they also contain vitamin A, folic acid, fiber, and iron. They are low in calories and loaded with nutrition so that makes them great to eat! Strawberries are best eaten almost immediately after they are harvested within the 2 to 3 days. After they are picked you remove their "cap" and then enjoy them!
Mama's Berry Patch...the strawberries are on the right (5 rows of them) and they are my favorite, but I cannot wait till the blackberries (on the left) come in sometime in July because they are also delicious!
I could not resist trying to consume several strawberry dishes yesterday since I had farm fresh strawberries! This is not a normal occurrence in the Savage household. I did not want those little yummy berries to go to waste especially since I helped pick them.
Breakfast (Bran Cereal & Strawberries with Milk)
Lunch (Fresh garden chicken salad with strawberries, apples, almonds, blue cheese crumbles, craisins & honey mustard dressing)
Afternoon Refresher (Strawberry Tea)
Dessert (Strawberry Shortcake)
I haven't turned into a strawberry yet, but I'm ready to go back to the berry patch to pick some more because after reviewing these pictures I'm hungry again for some more berries. Can you tell that strawberries are one of the Savage Girl's favorite fruits? What is your favorite?
