Josh and I went to go pick our own strawberries the other day..actually it was like last week sometime but it’s taken for-ev-er to get on here and post about it. Anyway, it was realllly fun. This little farm outside of Richmond has pick your own strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and in the fall they have pumpkins and gourds too. I think we must have gone at the right time because pretty much every strawberry in the field was perfectly ripe and perfectly shaped. Here’s Josh the FIRST time he found “THE PERFECT STRAWBERRY!”
Of course there were like 20 other occasions just like this, where one or both of us found the absolute perfect strawberry. We went there planning on just getting a few strawberries, but then we thought while we’re here we might as well pick a bunch of them and then freeze them so we’ll always have strawberries in the house. We ended up with this
..a humongous pile of beautiful strawberries. So we went home and Josh and I hulled them, ate a few (make that a bunch) and then freezed the rest. I’m not sure if anyone else knew this, but once you freeze strawberries and then defrost them, they’re pretty much mush. So that’s pretty disappointing, but we’re still gonna try to use them in this strawberry rhubarb crisp that we want to make tonight so we’ll see how that goes. Otherwise we’ll be making a bunch of strawberry smoothies, which isn’t bad at all.
So while reading a post on Kamutflake Girl about Cinco de Mayo, I realized that we had totally missed it. BUT, and you can call it fate, Josh and I just so happened to make burritos with guacamole and cheesy sauce on Cinco de Mayo. Worked out pretty good if you ask me. The burritos were super good this time for some reason..I think it was the guacamole.
I served it in these little avocado boats, which Josh said is good because it’s like a single serving of guac for you to eat out of and not worry about sharing 
Here’s a shot of Josh’s burritos
Ok I probably shouldn’t have posted this around dinner time when I haven’t eaten yet because now I’m super hungry.. damn.
Picking strawberries is so much fun!!
You pick farms are the best. It’s like a treasure hunt with tons of treasure. And your guacamole avocado boats are adorable.
I thought of using the avocado skins as a boat too! but then I was like “well, it’s just me… and I could be gluttonous instead” :DD
those strawberries DO look perfect, and it sounds like such a lovely way to spend a day, picking them!
What a cute way to serve guacamole!
Funny facts about Brazil:
- we serve avocados with sugar, like a dessert, tough yours look tasty!
- “You pick farms”? never heard about it… We dont have them around here, this wouldnt be considerate “fun” in this side of America! sss…but what do we know?! after reading your post,Ive come to the conclusion that, may be because of things like that we feel so disconnect to earth, god… may be Im loosing it!
brazilian dude, avocados w/ sugar sounds amazing, and i think the majority of human beings have a pretty large disconnect with the EARTH. But we do what we can to reconnect, i wish i had the land to actually have my own farm, but having places like “pick your own” farms so close to the city gives me some of that EARTH connection i need. Also when a society doesn’t have to do any farming for the food they consume, they tend to not appreciate the time spent in the fields.
hell you can get strawberries at wal-mart, picked, washed, sprayed with harmful chemicals, and ready to eat!
YUMMMMM
anyways, yes, avocados and sugar sounds delish!
I totally agree Josh!
And the worst part is that, we do have Wal-marts here, but not “pick your own” farms…
=(
About the avocados: why dont you guys try it? Theres is also a drink that we call “vitamin” made with soy milk, sugar, and the avos! Processed in the blender. It gets very smoothy and its very popular around here!
see ya!
by the way,
unfortunately the popular drink is not processed with soy milk… But, we’ll get there one day! I belive!
“by the way,
unfortunately the popular drink is not processed with soy milk… But, we’ll get there one day! I belive!”
maybe i can make a No Whey, José! version!
I’m so jealous, we don’t have any strawberries yet and the weather has been unseasonably cold for the whole week.
Your avocado boats look really good.