blue artichoke: You're a Pretty Little Thing, Yes, but... Ripe?

About two weeks ago I asked what flavor May is. Black Cake said strawberry, and that is the correct answer. May is National Strawberry Month! On my way home from the grocery store today, I saw a forlorn old woman sitting on the bed of a pickup truck in the parking lot of the county health clinic. A sign read: "Farmer's Market -->", so I guessed she was it. She looked a lot like my late grandmother, though shorter in teeth, so I pulled in to see what she was selling. Strawberries! These were pretty little things, and though I had just bought gigantic red strawberries at the grocery store ten minutes before, I bought a quart of these cute little button noses. Coincidentally, I've been plowing through a stack of old cooking magazines, and today clipped recipes for strawberry-orange muffins and brandied strawberry jam. Mmmm... looking forward to Sunday Muffins.

Getting to Know All About You: Have you ever bought anything at a roadside stand?

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PEACHES! And they were awesome!! Also bouught some zuchinni @ a stand @ the world's longest yard sale... stretching through Chattanooga last year...

Posted by: Blue Grilled Cheese | May 23, 2007 09:48 PM

All the time. Blackberry jam, chow chow, peaches, canteloupe, tomatoes. Whatever they offer.

And lemonade. I always stop for kids at a lemonade stand, drink it down and ask for seconds. That's the best part of summer!

Posted by: Purple Fried Okra | May 23, 2007 10:12 PM

Roadside produce almost always ends up tasting great. However, as the taster (last night) of both the tiny roadside strawberries and the giant store-bought suckers, I was saddened when the store-bought ones tasted better. This is probably the exception, though.

Posted by: Green Mango Custard | May 24, 2007 07:58 AM