Holiday flavours: Berry burst

Sweet, red berries from my mother's garden

We were lucky to enjoy perfectly ripe strawberries full of life, bursting with juice and great flavour on our holiday. Nothing beats home-grown! We have picked them fresh every morning (and afternoon, and in between) and the field-to-plate time, path and distance was virtually zero.

These are the wild strawberries (still in my mother's garden). You can smell them from afar. Little berries with big fragrant flavours, almost like perfume. I prefer them over the classic garden strawberries.