Fragaria Ananassa is a plant that sends out shoots like crazy. It likes to flower and produce fruit on those new shoots the second year they are alive, which makes maintaining the plant difficult work. You have to kill back the original part of the plant in order to force those new shoots to grow and flourish. The other option is to replant an entire field from seedlings every single year. Either method of growth is a ton of work but the rewards are amazing: You and I can buy bucketfuls of Fragaria Ananassa right now… we call them strawberries.
In Louisiana we are at the peak of strawberry season (as evidenced by Abita & Heiner Brau’s strawberry beers) and J.P. & Michelle wanted to find a way to reward those farmers over in the Florida Parishes for their hard work. As usual, when you get two rocket scientists on an idea something great comes out of it. We’re doing our inaugural Strawberry Harvest Week next week.
We’re currently tweaking a strawberry poundcake recipe just for the event. It’ll be pink from the pureed strawberries we’re pulling right off of the flat, blending, and pouring into the batter. The flavor is elegant, luscious, and richly strawberry. It’ll only be available for this one week out of the year as an homage to our brothers and sisters to the East whose skinned is stained red from their work in the fields.
Look for the poundcake Tuesday, April 5th through Saturday, April 9th but beware: once you taste it you’ll have to get one!
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