May 21, 2013 - Strawberries and Cream Day

Strawberries have vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, and fiber. And they are naturally sweet. They are even more delicious served with real whipped cream! Or, you can't go wrong with strawberries and ice cream!

Here are some other creamy toppings you can try today:

• Greek yogurt
• Sour cream
• Crème fraiche

Try these cute strawberry-and-cream elves!

You can even make more exotic strawberry / cream treats such as:

• strawberry-and-cream biscuits....

• strawberries and cream with macadamia nuts...
  
  
• strawberries and cream pancakes...

• and strawberries and cream cheese.

Plan Ahead...


Check out my Pinterest boards of June holidays, historical anniversaries in June, and June birthdays.

Here are the boards for the remainder of May: May holidays, historical events in May, and May birthdays.

Also on this date:

Physicist Gespard-Gustave de Coriolis's birthday 

Sheep Festival in Cameroon

Independence Day in Montenegro

July 3, 2012 - Happy Birthday, Strawberries!

On this date in 1806, British market gardener Michael Keens presented to the Royal Horticultural Society the first cultivated strawberry whose size, flavor, and color resembles today's strawberries. Apparently almost all of our current strawberries descend from Keens's fruits.

A modern strawberry

A wild strawberry

Are they berries?

The botanical definition of a berry is that it is a simple fruit with seeds and pulp that comes from a single ovary of a flower. So fruits like blueberries and cranberries are berries.

However, strawberries are not!

Strawberries are called “accessory fruits.” They are unique in that the seeds are tiny and affixed to the outside of the “fruit,” which is not created by a flower ovary but instead by a thickened part of the plant's stem.

(Raspberries, blackberries, and boysenberries are also not true berries; they are “aggregate fruits” that contain seeds from many different flower ovaries. Some botanical berries that don't get called berries include avocados, watermelons, pumpkins, grapes, and bananas!)

Celebrate strawberries!

Here are some ideas. 

Also on this date:

“Dog Days” begin 

Independence Day in Belarus