April A to Z Challenge
The Letter I
I is for In Season Fruit
I know that one of my readers doesn't eat fruit, so this post might not be interesting to her. But life at the Elliott's house is made better by fresh fruit. Mark and I and our kids and grandkids all love fruit.
Last Easter, I made a fruit butterflly for our oldet granddaughter. I used kiwi, grapes, blueberries, strawberries, and cuties (mandarin oranges).
For a neighborhood event, I made a beautiful fruit tray with grapes, strawberries, pineapple, watermelon, and papaya.
It is not an uncommon sight in our house to have lots of bananas! I enjoy them when they are yellow with no hint of brown. Mark loves them when they have LOTS of brown.
A few years ago, two different friends made a watermelon birthday cake for me! Watermelon in the summer time is one of my favorite treats.
In Alabama, blueberry season is in June. Back in 2020 (you remember what was happening in 2020, right?) Mark and I went to the blueberry farm and picked berries. I cooked some of them and made a blueberry "compote" for our Kodiak waffles. Yum! Yum!
We have great Farmer's Markets in Alabama and one farmer actually drives his truck to Birmingham twice a week (beginning about this time of year) and parks in a local church parking lot. I love buying fresh produce. I evidently bought a "haul" on the day below. Fresh ripe Alabama strawberries are hard to beat.
For some reason, I don't have any pictures of Chilton County (Alabama) peaches. They are like candy. I particularly like the Freestone ones - the peach doesn't stick to the pit!
In season fruit (and sometimes out of season fruit!) is delicious! What are your favorite fruits? What fruit is grown in your state?
I live right in the middle of central Florida's strawberry and blueberry country. Strawberries are ready toward the end of January here, and blueberry season is right now (about done). Our strawberries are delicious. I had strawberries and blueberries together for an offering with Easter dinner last weekend. Yum!!
ReplyDeletethe butterfly is beautiful.... I don't think there is a fruit I don't like. I make a fruit pizza using cookie dough for crust and marshmallow and cream cheese for frosting... we have a fig tree that grows in our back yard. We make Fig BBQ sauce. There's only so much preserves one can eat.
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Barbie
Benny is back at the church, but I have not been yet. I plan on being there in the morning to get a pail of strawberries.
ReplyDeleteEven though I say we eat vegetables instead of fruit, we always make exceptions for local strawberries, watermelon, and peaches, and if our tree has a good pear year we eat them.
Your butterfly is gorgeous!!!
Oh my goodness, a friend after my own heart. I love fruit and eat a lot of it. I live for watermelon season, fresh local apples, oranges shipped in from Florida in December, and grapes from Peru. If you ever see grapes from Peru in your produce section, buy them. They are the best grapes in the world. When I'm in Mexico, I eat pineapple every day. Not in the US though, because I'm spoiled for fresh pineapple in Mexico. I also like mamey, a local tropical fruit that is sweet, rich and creamy.
ReplyDeleteGoodnes but you are creative with your fruit! I love that butterfly!
ReplyDeleteI love your fruit creations, decorative, healthy and tasty too.
ReplyDeleteSo pleased to see "In season" fruits - supermarkets spaff airmiles flying fruit from around the world to us so that we almost forget the seasons...
ReplyDeleteI love the butterfly! I cannot eat a banana that is brown or overly ripe. Unless it's in the form of banana bread of course. Have a nice weekend!
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