Hello everyone!

Today I will write a bit different post than usually. There will be no recipe in terms of cooking but I will share my little secret of storing berries. Summer is a season of many fresh berries but we cannot and shouldn’t eat them all at once. Usually I was freezing some berries for winter but blended with sugar. It is a great way but gives a lot of limitations of how berries can be used afterwords.

One day I was watching a cat of my friends and they have a nice yard with different berries. I picked some raspberries and it was too much to eat them all at once. So, I started Googling how can I freeze whole raspberries and every post was saying put them on a flat tray in one layer. Hm…I had a problem of doing it. I didn’t have space in a freezer. I looked on my raspberries and thought that there should be some solution. I wanted so badly to have whole raspberries for cake decorations and my morning smoothie bowls, and in one flash I new – I have a solution.

I will guide you know throughout the whole process, and these berries have already been used in my raspberry tart published last week.

Step 1. Wash you berries first

Raspberries are so easy to damage that you cannot wash them as an apple or a strawberry. Take some big deep bowl or casserole, fill it with a water. Move raspberries into a strainer and them slowly put the strainer with raspberries into a water. Wash berries and pul strainer out of water. Place washed raspberries on the paper towels and let them dry out a bit. I waited for 10 minutes.

Step 2. Packing raspberries into a container

Then take a container any size you like, cut a baking paper into the pieces of a size of your container. Put on the bottom a baking paper and then one raspberry by one put them in the container. When bottom is covered with berries place another piece of baking paper on top of the raspberries. And repeat those steps again until container is packed with raspberries to top and can be closed not touching the top layer of raspberries.

That’s all. Now you can put container in the freezer and use them later. But I will show you how they raspberries looked after being in a freezer for a couple of days. Easy to use, and looking beautiful.

Enjoy your food!