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Since Olive's discovery of strawberries, we just can't keep enough in the house.  The kid could eat her own body weight in berries, and who could blame her?  My mother-in-law brought up a flat of organic, locally grown IL strawberries on her last visit.  We plowed through them, and when we were finished eating them plain, I whipped up a couple of simple desserts for the Boston Globe.  Not to be boastful, but every now and then, I love my photos that I do for the Globe so much that I just can't help but share them on this site.  Hope these pics inspire you to put together your own strawberry creation...or eat them straight out of the pint.

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What better place to enjoy a fresh strawberry pie than on our gorgeous patio?

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