Strawberries Out Our Ears

I am ashamed to admit it, but I grew up in Los Angeles. Along with the smog and the traffic and the cranky people, LA produces some spectacular strawberries.  They are positively huge.  Sweet, and good.  However, until moving to the northwest I never had anything with which to really compare them.

Our strawberries are NOT large, by any stretch of the imagination.  But what strawberries in the northwest lack in size they make up in HUGE taste.   How one little berry can pack so much flavor and such intense sweetness, I will never know.  They are so small they don't even begin to approach round, but in their little football-shaped frames there are quite a few surprises.  If you have the chance to try these sweet little explosions of flavor, I strongly recommend you do.

Now excuse me while I wipe the drool off my chin and go raid the fridge one more time for the fruits of our harvest today.