Longing for Berries

 

       Strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, golden raspberry I mean who doesn't love this beautiful and delicious berries? Not me! Unless your allergic to them. I love berries as much I love chocolate and to think of it chocolate and berries are perfect for each other. You can make chocolate covered strawberries, you can put berries in a chocolate tart  for a beautiful presentation its like a berry love in a tart. Oh no! My mouth is watering right now. For me this lovely berries are one of the beautiful things that you can eat and its also healthy for us.
      Well, honestly to tell you the truth I never taste a raspberry and blackberry before. i know right?! It sounds unbelievable but its true I'm not gonna lie even though its embarrassing and funny! I know you'll be laughing at me when you read this but yeah that's life and oh I'm laughing too. Can't help it! Berries are very hard to find here in our city it's not like a big city when you can but everything you want. That's why berries here are very rare. The last time I bought a berry is last year, I think its the first week of December. My son and I got a little grocery shopping  to do because I'll be making a cinnamon roll for my aunt while walking at the fruit section........ Oh my gad! There it is! A half shelf full of strawberries! My eyes can't believe what I just saw. I hurry to get some strawberries because any day now they will be gone. I just forget all the things that I will buy and spend a couple of minutes with the strawberries. You can't blame me! I only saw them once a year. I only bought 1/4 kl of it because they are pretty expensive. Well, I don't care I just wanna take them home. And oh... blueberries are more expensive than strawberries. You can find strawberry plantation here in the Philippines but its only in baguio where the weather is cold and humid. Baguio is the only province that are appropriate for planting strawberries because of the climate but other cities like us its very hard to grow a seed of strawberry. I can tell because I tried it once they can't stand our city climate like some other plants such as eggplant, tomatoes and okra. Oh right! I just cook the strawberries with a lot of sugar to make a preserve, they are pretty sour you can't eat them by themselves that's why they need a lot of sugar. Making a preserver is the easiest thing to make with the berries beside you can just eat them. How I wish I can go to a place full of those lovely berries, picking them from their branches, carrying a basket full of berries. Dancing and singing while picking the berries. Ohh berry berry berry.
       So what is your favorite berry? And what dessert do you like with your berries? or you're just like me lookin for berries?

XOXO
CRLA