nature's candy

look at these strawberries! click on the high resolution photo and you can see their perfect beauty up close. i took the photo probably so you can get closer to almost smell and eat them. too bad the internet can't do that yet. usually i don't have the luxury of time to snap photos of what i eat, download, upload them, resize them, crop them in photoshop, and talk about them! i couldn't resist.

would love to say i grew them but i've tried in the past and those pesky snails kept at them. i just don't have that green thumb like my father does. he lives on the east coast and grows the largest squash i've EVER seen. he uses the seeds from the best squash of the crop for next year's planting. it's admirable how he's so efficient with the land in the relatively short summers in virginia. but the tomatoes, japanese string beans, japanese eggplants, okra, etc is the best i've tasted, seriously. my mom has alot to do with that too since as a team, she does wonders in the kitchen with the harvested crop.

i buy these organically grown strawberries at the farmer's market buying about 8 baskets at a time, eat about 3 baskets then freeze the others for refreshing fruit smoothies. otherwise i'd pay $3.90 a smoothie at blender's in the grass or jamba juice, the 2 main smoothie places in town. they're good too but as much as i like a smoothie made for me, $4 does add up.

so here my simple delicious fruit smoothie recipe:
orange juice (from fresh oranges or in carton)
banannas
strawberries
ice (if not using frozen strawberries)
real fruit brand peach sorbet (optional)

blend them all together.

sweet + juicy = strawberries + pop them in your mouth = nature's candy.