Fruit wants to be free

When biking Los Gatos Creek Trail, I ride by an enormous avocado tree. As avocado trees do, it has heavy years and light years. This year is a heavy year.

I gleaned the ones from the sidewalk, not the overhanging limbs, and I still got quite a few.

Today’s CSA box came with baskets of small, soft fruit

Strawberries, raspberries and cherry tomatoes. There are lots of leaves

(It makes me sad that my flash photos look as though they were taken at a crime scene.) There are more colorful things in bags

and there are round objects cut from their green supporting plants.

I need something different to make than ratatouille.

In a few minutes, I’m off to Eulipia for my menu meeting. I have some ideas; time to get some hard numbers about how much food it takes for 50 covers.