Get Those Strawberries While You Can

Last week, we were sitting on the couch in our unseasonably hot apartment eating an obscenely big bowl of strawberries and cream (which has, of late, replaced dinner), and dreaming about the weeks of strawberries to come. The next day we arrived late to the market only to find that they were completely sold out. For love or money there was not a single strawberry.

As we’ve gleaned from talking to various farmers, strawberries arrived late this year due to cold weather. Now due to hot weather they will be leaving early, proving once and for all that life is unfair.

Seattleites, this may be the last week for local strawberries; so if you want them, go to the farmer’s markets early and prepare for fierce competition. If you fail as we did, don’t worry too much: there are still raspberries (and blueberries, loganberries, tayberries, marionberries, huckleberries and blackberries) to come.

We’d give you recipe for strawberries, but to do that would imply that we’ve been doing anything besides dusting them with sugar, dousing them with heavy cream* and eating them.

*For the record, Organic Valley or Horizon Organic heavy cream is worth the money.