It's strawberry season. I love strawberry season! Fortunately we live close to several strawberry farms where we can go pick our own berries for super cheap. I try to do that as much as possible in June. Today we got about 23 lbs, which I thought was pretty good. Jared was even helpful this year and filled up his own bucket with ripe berries all by himself!

For the last couple years I've used our strawberries for fruit smoothies and fruit leather. Then earlier this year I discovered homemade fruit snacks and love making this too. But my newest discovery is sorbet. I've made two batches now and it's heaven. If you want to check out the recipe go here. I used lemon juice instead of orange (and only about a 4th of it), didn't add any water, and juiced the berries so there was no pump since we have a pretty cool juicer.

But today I was pureeing berries for smoothies and it occurred to me that I should post to pinterest this nifty trick I came up with a couple years ago. It's tricky to pour puree into to freezer bags. You can very easily spill if you don't hold the bag right and loose all that precious strawberry puree. So, now I put my freezer bags in a cup so it stands up while I'm pouring into it. There's much less risk of spilling then. Plus its easy to see how much puree to pour into the bag because you just need to go to the top of the cup.

Next project; Strawberry pies. Especially since tomorrow is National strawberry rhubarb pie day!