Huckleberry season

[Wawannabe]

Yesterday I took a road trip on the Mountain Loop Hwy in NW WA. I am a forager and to my delight, I found red and purple huckleberries!! I thought it might be a little early. I also found tiny RIPE alpine strawberries! SCORE! The strawberries went right into my mouth. I got home with a full quart bag that was a little heavy on the red berry because I ate so many purple ones while picking! 😁

This afternoon I washed and picked over the fruit then concocted a huckleberry infused Titos cocktail. Was a perfect drink while preparing my little huckleberry tart.

I get so excited when I score foraging what I went out for. The little, super sweet strawberries were a yummy bonus too!

[cilla4progress]

2. Cool!

We found a plentitude of huckleberries along a trail in NCW!

I put blackberries in a Tito's summer cocktail I concocted - 1/3 each Titos, lemonade and sparking water. Crush a few blackberries into drink. Yum. Also good in wine spritzers!

Great minds think alike?

[Pobeka]

3. How do you ever fill a bag with huckleberries? They all go straight in my mouth!

Good to know the season is here, we'll be up in the Cascades this weekend.

[Wawannabe]

4. I did 't get any last year as I broke my wrist and had surgery

I ate A LOT!

The tart is delish, too.

[dem in texas]

5. I have never lived where huckleberries grow. but I've foraged for other types

When we lived in Alaska, we'd go out to forage and find all kinds of berries: blueberries, low-bush and high bush cranberries, raspberries. I'd make jam and jellies, even cranberry catsup from the high bush cranberries.

When we moved to Western Kentucky, I had a friend who also liked to forage and we'd go over to the nearby Land Between the Lakes park and find old home sites where all kinds of fruits and berries were growing wild. We picked concord grapes, crab apples, pears, and blackberries. I made jams and jellies from all the things we gathered.

I miss going in the woods and foraging, but I am too old to do that anymore. Two weeks ago, we went to a commercial peach orchard and bought two bushels of over-ripe and damaged peaches for a cheap price. I was in the kitchen for two days making peach preserves.