July 14, 2012: Zone Three Garden
Raspberries are the rubies of the garden. The first gorgeous, tart and sassy, sparkling, faceted jewels were ready to be plucked today. I had a raspberry party! The first fresh raspberry delicacy that I always make (ever since last year) is the French Raspberry Tart. Oooo-La-la. If there is a special occasion, nothing is better than the miniature version.
I am out picking every early morning – around 6 am, usually for three weeks. Some summers I have harvested a bucket a day from my humble urban patch. This looks like another bumper crop! I get so many that immediately after picking, I save a few for the day, and then freeze the rest on a parchment covered cookie sheet and bag this in freezer bags the next day. There are a lot of gorgeous recipes I make with the frozen berries and my favourite summer frozen raspberry recipe is my Raspberry Ice-Cream!
The yellow ones are not ripe yet…. soon…Boyne are my favourite variety. Yours?
I am salivating!
oh mom!!! these berries look SOOOOOOO good!!! i had raspberries on my frozen yogurt this afternoon. i LOVE raspberries!
That tart (and everything else) is to die for!! lordy!
When I left southern Australia for the sunny north I left all my raspberries behind. I think they’re the only things I miss. Oh, I miss my neighbours and I miss my asparagus. and the chickens.
I do live on the water so there is a tradeoff but I’d love to have a garden.
This post should come with a food porn warning..lol..guaranteed to raise one’s blood pressure – in a good way!
What a great post!
chow 🙂 Devaki @ weavethousandflavors
Valerie you are a lucky woman! Oh what a life it must be to wake up to a bounty of fragrant raspberries ripening up in the garden. I don’t know enough about varietals of raspberries – I’m so deprived! But I will start paying attention so I can start my own garden.
So jealous!
wow!
pretty as can be! they are truly edible art!
cheers
su 🙂
I don’t actually think we have any varieties of raspberries here. Or maybe I just don’t know about them… Well that’s not entirely true as I have seen the yellow ones before but these look so good Valerie!
Okay, let’s have coffee so you can bake something amazing with my saskatoons. I started picking Friday.
William!
Wonderful!
Where and when – will Thursday work? pm? Email m with where and when and I will be there!
🙂
V