The best thing about planting a garden is all the fruits and vegetables. The worst thing is all the fruits and vegetables. Especially if you’re not really a Susie Homemaker that loves to can and freeze. Guilty. Pretty soon the horrible zucchini and tomato pandemic will begin, but right now I’m just trying to deal with some berry vines that I suspect are on steroids.
First it was the Loganberries. These little suckers are so fragile they pretty much turn to mush if you look at them cross eyed. I don’t really want to make berry jam, so my favorite use thus far has been to make a berry crumble. Pretty tasty topped with vanilla ice cream, or we actually prefer vanilla yogurt.
Following the loganberries were the early boysenberries. At least I can freeze them because they’re sturdy little berries. Being lazy as usual, I just baked some into a boysenberry galette . (It’s made just like the nectarine galette, just pile the crust full of berries instead.) I use store bought pie crust. You can judge me, but I don’t care. I’ll be sitting on my lazy butt, eating this with a smile on my face.
No telling what else I’ll have to make before I defeat these berries. And then the later ripening berries will kick in. The horror!
