Goin' to the country, gonna eat me a lotta ... strawberries

Around here, people are really into locally grown produce. Farmer's markets, local produce food trucks, and berry patches are all over. I think they're trying to be trendy everywhere, but if so, it's really caught on in my state. I love it.

So, I went to a strawberry patch this morning with some girlfriends. It was delightful. The idea was proposed to go make jam out of all the surplus strawberries we ended up with (because among the four of us we probably had about 17 pounds of strawberries).

We made jam. Lots of it. Then we made strawberry ice cream. Lots of that. Now, there are still enough strawberries left to make a strawberry pie. And I must say I think I'm rather good at making pies. Except when I'm not.

This is going to be exciting.