{"id":3038,"date":"2012-06-15T23:06:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T04:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svmedaris.wordpress.com\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2012-06-15T23:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T04:06:20","slug":"a-short-strawberry-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/a-short-strawberry-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A short strawberry season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Strawberries<\/a>June 14, 2pm. Work done for day, so I decide to see when I’m going to go strawberry picking this year. Looking online at the various Pick-Your-Own places and I see<\/p>\n

….they’re all done for the season!!<\/p>\n

Since it was so hot so early this year, everything (including strawberries) reached maturity early and didn’t last for long. I check Appleberry Farm<\/a> which is near us in Cross Plains, and the site said to call for daily schedule…. The recording said:<\/p>\n

“The last picking of the season will be Thursday, June 14, starting at 4:30 pm and going until the berries are gone….”<\/p>\n

Holy smokes!!!<\/p>\n

Anyway, got there right at 4:30p, and although small, there were plenty to pick. Here’s what I picked in just less than an hour (6 quarts):<\/p>\n

\"6<\/a>

Just picked!<\/p><\/div>\n

That night, I washed, measured, bagged and froze much of them to use in recipes throughout summer. The rest of them would be made into Strawberry Rhubarb Cream Pies!<\/p>\n

Next day I finally got around to making pie. Crust uses lard from last season’s hogs (of course).<\/p>\n

\"Making<\/a>

The various stages. Clockwise from top left: pie filled and crusts in place, filled and waiting for top crust, crust being rolled out.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

I always feel good when I get to use ingredients from animals I raise (or fruit or veggies that I grow and\/or pick) in dishes we like to eat. J loves pie, and I have to admit, this recipe is pretty awesome. I’ll try to post it sometime. Here’s the finished product:<\/p>\n

\"2<\/a>

Fresh, hot pies from the oven. Click on image to see them up close, if you’re not too hungry…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"slice<\/a>

Here you go hon…<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 14, 2pm. Work done for day, so I decide to see when I’m going to go strawberry picking this year. Looking online at the various Pick-Your-Own places and I see ….they’re all done for the season!! Since it was so hot so early this year, everything (including strawberries) reached maturity early and didn’t last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[300,39,361],"tags":[457,458,459,460,461],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-show","category-farm","category-food","tag-lard","tag-pie","tag-pie-crust","tag-strawberries","tag-strawberry-rhubarb-pie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35JA0-N0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}