Summer Food and Memories

With the summer just around the corner, comes lots of fresh food. Where I live, in the summer there is lots of delicious and fresh locally grown produce available. One thing available, is berries. Raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries. Each summer, my family buys huge amounts of all of these berries and we bag and freeze them ourselves. Its a long process and takes most of a day for just one kind of berry. But, but the end of the summer our freezer is stocked with delicious fruit, that will normally last well into the spring.With the berries that we don't freeze, we normally just eat them as they are. Sometimes though, my mom will make a shortcake and use the berries to top the cake along with whipping cream. It is so delicious, and a prefect way to end a summer day.

Another fresh food that is available is corn on the cob. The corn is so sweet and goes so well with BBQ chicken or salmon. Fresh corn on the cob, is just part of summer for me. I have many memories of sitting on my back porch as a kid shucking the corn. As a kid, this was always something I enjoyed doing, and to this day, I still do.

For me, I associate lots of my memories with food. BBQ chicken reminds me of beach picnics with my family on beautiful summer evenings. Tofu dogs remind of camping, my siblings and I ate many tofu dogs on family camping trips. Grilled cheese sandwiches remind me of the summer camp I worked at last summer.  Whatever the found memory is, it is most likely that there is some food that I can associate with it. I think that this is because food brings people together, and when people come together memories are made. Yes, I realize that this sounds very cheesy, but it’s true.