Gooseberry Fool

GOOSEBERRIES

I found these gorgeous gooseberries at Whole Foods Market this week.  Carrisa and I decided to make gooseberry fool.  Have you ever tried making gooseberry fool?  Oddly enough, I have always wanted to make gooseberry fool.  It has been one of those obscure food fantasies just waiting for the right/ripe moment to bloom.

As a bit of personal food trivia - I did try growing a gooseberries bush many years ago while living in Seattle.

HOW TO MAKE GOOSEBERRY FOOL

Nothing could be more simple than making gooseberry fool.  What have I been waiting for?

All you do is whip cream and fold in sweetened fruit.

We used raw cream from Organic Pastures.  We sweetened the gooseberries (and they do want sweetening) with birch sugar which is similar to stevia but without the aftertaste.

We served it, in all its glorious simplicity, in a parfait glass.

FOOLING AROUND

We really liked the pleasing sweet-tart flavor of gooseberry fool.  We thought it was sensational.

We were so encouraged that we quickly bought more cream and really got serious.  In a short period of time we had made raspberry fool, strawberry fool. blueberry fool, and apricot fool.

To be honest, none of the other fruit or berry fools quite equaled the flavor sensation of traditional gooseberry fool.  Gooseberry fool was by far the favorite.