I love spring, don’t you?…. next to fall, it’s my favorite season.  Especially because we get to enjoy luscious, fresh strawberries! Local strawberries have been gracing produce stands inside our markets and at farmers’ markets here in California for the last month.  If you’re lucky enough to live close to where they’re grown, like those of us in California where 80% of the strawberries in the U.S. are grown, they’ll be extra sweet as they won’t be picked too early. As Americans, we eat an average of 3 ½ pounds of fresh strawberries a year, just plain right out of…