Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

It was the ‘we’ in ‘when we have breakfast’ that caught my attention. My son does not usually take it for granted that I will share that meal… and to be fair, given the vile seaweed sludge he calls a smoothie and the birdseed cereal he prefers, that is fine by me. He’d obviously bought something special, but after being disappointed in the ensuing guessing game, but reassured that I wouldn’t be cooking, I had to simply wait and see.

When the shopping was delivered, the mystery resolved itself… There appeared to be a lot of strawberries… a little over two and a half pounds of them. Even with my son’s appetite and my passion for this fruit, this was ambitious.

Was I complaining as I hulled and washed them? No, I was not.

Strawberries are good for you. Low in calories, a fat content that is almost non-existent, packed…