As you know if I can make it myself, I’m all about it! From household cleaners, bathroom necessities, beauty and health to food good for the Heart and Soul.

Over the next few posts we will be looking at the yumminess that is strawberries. Hulling aka cleaning, preparing, preserving, fresh, frozen and processed. All of which are easy does it however a bit time consuming. Join me on a 2 week journey of my berry busy, berry filled life. (Friday starts my ‘peachy’ life)

I got my berries from Jones Strawberry Farm (u-pick) of Sedalia, Kentucky. I made 2 trips to be sure I had enough to last until next spring. Their berries were sweet, good sized and perfectly ripe. 48 quarts may not sound like much but believe me, when you sit down to them all over your dinning table, it can become very overwhelming. On that note lets start with the easiest but most time consuming first task, HULLING/CLEANING.

Hulling/cleaning is what it’s called when you take off the greens with a pairing knife or the special tweezers ( I knew nothing about these ‘tweezers’ until my neighbor Melissa, offered them up…can you say, AWESOME!).  Cleaning is the rinsing and cutting (depending on how you are using them. get to that later) of the berries so that they are ready for whatever type of preserving you have in store.  If you are doing this by yourself, you may want to put on your favorite Netflix series or Pandora station. This, is going to take a while! If you sit on your feet, they will go numb so make sure to standup and stretch a few times. 

Your fingers will turn this beautiful new shade of pink and you will want to make an appointment to get a manicure.

Be careful of any children that are running around, you may lose some of those precious berries when you aren’t looking. (My TNUK loves her some berries).

Here is a simple and sweet way to reward yourself for hours of sitting on your fanny and turnin’ a perfect shade of berry! BERRIES AND CREAM

Here’s what you need

• 3 C quartered berries
• 1/2 C sugar
• 1 C heavy cream

Here’s what you do

Place all ingredients in amedium sized bowl and fold with a scraper/spatula. Let sit for 10 minutes  in fridge, stir, then serve. If they are from frozen (show you next post) let thaw just until you can break them apart then follow directions. I love how they are still quite cold when you bite into them, almost like ice cream.

I love you berry much!

Jo 💟