Good Things #10 | Red Gems
Strawberries & co - is it time??
This evening I grabbed a large punnet of strawberries from a petrol station micro-market. The cellophane cover was splashed with the colours of the Union Jack, and the fruit inside looked plump and flirtatious. I’m not sure if these were definitely my first taste of British strawberries of 2025 … but they were definitely the best strawberries I’ve had this year so far.
To purists it’s probably too soon for the really truly good stuff. But we can’t be far off (I enjoyed
’s recent post noting the potential for a bumper year after a crazy hot and sunny Spring. Also her excellent formula for elderflower and strawberry fool).Aside from eating them straight from the punnet, totally unadulterated, in recent years I’ve taken to macerating the strawberries in a fennel seed sugar; drizzling with elderflower cordial and dotting with actual elderflowers; or roasting with black pepper, or vanilla, or citrus zest, or more o…