blueberry notes

[jinian]

Should mention before I forget that I went blueberry picking with eub at Cottage Gardens Blueberry Farm, which is strangely near my half-brother's house, yesterday. They had rows of different kinds of berries, and it was a lot of fun. My favorite kind was the "Olympia", which is pretty tart and fresh-tasting, but they were all very good. Don't think our soil is acidic enough to make blueberry bushes happy in the yard, though the drainage is bad enough to keep them nice and wet. (Could amend that, but it would take a lot of coffee-ground compost and peat moss to get from cakey clay to soil for Vacciniums.)

The blueberry muffins this morning came out excellently. (Confidential to Eli: What Joy of Cooking edition do you have? Our recipe is notably different from yours.) Wim is makig a pie at this very moment. What else should I do with these lovely things? My $3.25-worth still leaves about another pie-equivalent of berries.

Also, the farmer was an extremely pleasant woman, and we were able to inform her that she could eat the young shoots of that huge stand of knotweed. She reciprocated by pointing out to us just how wonderful the cursed stuff smells. I understand why people would grow it as an ornamental after seeing and smelling her patch of it. (But they were still terribly misguided, of course.)

Comments

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Perhaps buy some other in-season fruits -- or go blackberry picking down at Magnusson Park -- and make fruit salad?

Or add them to yogurt/cream o' wheat/breakfast food of choice?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I think you should make more muffins and bring them to meeeeeee. :D Also, pie. ;)

[eub.livejournal.com]

Also, this was the last weekend of the open season, she said that sometimes -- you'd call first and see -- they have people come by and pick on the guesstimation honor system. Though this year they also planned to have an army of food-bank volunteers come through some time and clean the place out.

Some rows of bushes had very many berries still coming ripe.

Confidential

1997. But I realized today that normally I don't do that recipe with the yogurt; I do the other one.

What else should I do with these lovely things?

A fellow at work recommended whizzing them in a blender with soy milk and, uh, and something else all healthy. But I want to burst the berries in biting.

blueberries!

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

I feel like I should be able to make some fabulous suggestions for things to do with your blueberries other than what you have already done. But I am very self-centered and all that comes to mind is "muffins for ME, muffins for ME" which, I fear, is not very original.

Hmmm. Blueberries and cheesecake go well together, if one can eat and/or is fond of cheesecake.

But truly, they're best as a finger snack.