July 25, 2005
I do believe that it is the season for that secret ingredient that I like to forage for...
There was a time that I made stuff with blackberries. Ice Cream. Cobblers. Gallettes. Berry sauce.
Then came Amalia. We dutifully go into the woods with our bowls and baskets, and, for some reason, we never seem to have enough berries by the time we get home. We have a very happy little girl in purple clothes (even when they start the day white), so it makes it all worth it.
Tomorrow we will officially open our blackberry season with an evening trip to our secret spot, armed with a picnic lunch and lots of bowls. Perhaps if we can appease the girl with ham sandwiches, she will let some berries make it home to become ice cream or even a pastry of some sort.
So, call this entry a Monday One:
What are your favorite things to do with blackberries?
Posted by erik at July 25, 2005 10:24 AM | TrackBackBlackberry pie. During the last El Niņo year, our normally scrubby blackberry vines produced a bumper crop of berries, some of them two inches long if you can believe it. We made blackberry pies the whole summer long, and my brother and I still managed to make $20.00 selling berries in the park.
Posted by: Meredith at July 28, 2005 1:49 PMBlackberry wine. Best with 3 parts blackberries, 1 part elderberries.
Posted by: Atlantic at July 26, 2005 10:09 AMYummy blackberries!
Blackberry pie, blackberry cobbler. Blackberries and cream. Blackberries with home-churned vanilla ice cream. Blackberry waffles and blackberry pancakes. Blackberry jam, with seeds or without!
I just love blackberries!
Posted by: Chicken Little at July 26, 2005 9:38 AMturnovers, aka bubbly pies
my daughter Deirdre makes yummy ones
of course, she is now in Eugene OR the capitol of free blackberries.....
I would like to have been able to make a blackberry schnapps when we lived there, but the berries had a way of disappearing too quickly
Eat them right off the briars!!!
Or, barring that, freezer jam!!!
Posted by: Franklin Jennings at July 25, 2005 4:16 PM