Comments on: Four and a Half Fruity Ideas http://www.earnestparenting.com/2008/06/25/fruity-ideas/ Successes, failures, and a few funny stories about parenting. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:37:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amy http://www.earnestparenting.com/2008/06/25/fruity-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1613 Amy Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:46:24 +0000 http://www.earnestparenting.com/?p=219#comment-1613 Crissy, the best raspberry jam I ever had was a combination of red and black raspberries together. The black berries had fewer seeds, so it was a better balance. Something else I've done is to stir my (already made) strawberry jam into the raspberry jam and spread that on the bread. I'm too lazy to pick enough raspberries to strain the seeds out and make jelly, lol. This year I don't think I'll do much with raspberries as the boys haven't been interested in them. Do you have sour cherries in the freezer or sweet? Assuming sour, can you make pie with them? Or pancake topping? Anything you do to cook them will solve the appearance problem. If you've got sweet cherries, pit them and blend with yogurt and banana for a great smoothie. Emphasis on the pit them part. Hubby made smoothies with cherries I hadn't pitted once, lol. It wasn't pretty. The boys nibble on the berries but didn't eat a ton of them at the field. At least, as far as I know they didn't. They're big enough to want to pick in their own spot in the row and then run back and show me their trophies. Where they eat them the most is after we've gotten back home. They went through a quart before I could even get to washing and prepping for jam the other day! Fortunately I planned for that. :) Crissy, the best raspberry jam I ever had was a combination of red and black raspberries together. The black berries had fewer seeds, so it was a better balance. Something else I’ve done is to stir my (already made) strawberry jam into the raspberry jam and spread that on the bread. I’m too lazy to pick enough raspberries to strain the seeds out and make jelly, lol. This year I don’t think I’ll do much with raspberries as the boys haven’t been interested in them.

Do you have sour cherries in the freezer or sweet? Assuming sour, can you make pie with them? Or pancake topping? Anything you do to cook them will solve the appearance problem. If you’ve got sweet cherries, pit them and blend with yogurt and banana for a great smoothie. Emphasis on the pit them part. Hubby made smoothies with cherries I hadn’t pitted once, lol. It wasn’t pretty.

The boys nibble on the berries but didn’t eat a ton of them at the field. At least, as far as I know they didn’t. They’re big enough to want to pick in their own spot in the row and then run back and show me their trophies. Where they eat them the most is after we’ve gotten back home. They went through a quart before I could even get to washing and prepping for jam the other day! Fortunately I planned for that. :)

]]> By: Crissy http://www.earnestparenting.com/2008/06/25/fruity-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1610 Crissy Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:55:59 +0000 http://www.earnestparenting.com/?p=219#comment-1610 Amy, I love the recipes you have been cross posting. I have 2 questions for you. Do you have a really good raspberry jam recipes that you have tried? I looked for granny's and can't find it. I really screw up with freezing cherries last year by not pitting them so now I need to figure out something to cook or bake them since just taking them out of the freezer leaves them bitter and very messy. Do the boys eat more strawberries then get put in the basket? Mine tend to eat as quickly as we pick them. Thanks for the great ideas to get more fruit into our regular diet. Amy,

I love the recipes you have been cross posting. I have 2 questions for you. Do you have a really good raspberry jam recipes that you have tried? I looked for granny’s and can’t find it. I really screw up with freezing cherries last year by not pitting them so now I need to figure out something to cook or bake them since just taking them out of the freezer leaves them bitter and very messy. Do the boys eat more strawberries then get put in the basket? Mine tend to eat as quickly as we pick them. Thanks for the great ideas to get more fruit into our regular diet.

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