berry good

Strawberry country cake, strawberry rhubarb crisp, strawberry pancakes, and this morning, strawberry shortcake. When it's time to harvest, you just have to drop what you're doing and get it done.  All hands on deck!

Several evenings a week we all head to the garden to try and put a dent in the strawberry patch. We have some nesting bowls and the biggest goes to the oldest and then on down from there. Nina filled hers up quick and was off to play.

Rollin took his time and finished about an hour after everyone else. It's hard when you eat so many!

Four of the six...Zig, Ashley, Sela, and Nina.

Zig thinks he picked the biggest strawberry.


strawberry shortcake assembly, kids running the show.


I think he likes it!

When we make strawberry shortcake for breakfast, we make a simple biscuit and then top it with slightly sweetened whipped cream and the sliced berries. It's not too sweet first thing in the morning.

The biscuit recipe is 1 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 3 tsp sugar (optional), 6 Tbsp cold butter, and 3/4 cup heavy cream.

Combine the flour, salt, bp, sugar. Cut in the butter with a fork or pastry blender until the butter is the shape of peas. Pour in the cream and mix gently until the dough just comes together. Roll out the dough and use a biscuit cutter to make eight little biscuits or so. Brush the tops with heavy cream and bake for about 15 minutes or so at 400. Slice and put a dollop of whipped cream on each side and berries on top. I do sprinkle a little sugar on the berries, about a teaspoon, just so they will get release their juices. Yum!