Yesterday I packed up GBaby and the stroller and brought along HandyMan to help with the picking
and we went for fresh local blueberries. There is a great organic blueberry farm about ten minutes from where we live where we pick your own blueberries for $1.65 a quart. Be still my heart! So we go, pick these little gems by the hand full - literally - and bring them home to stash for the winter. I feel like a squirrel. Most will get stashed anyway, some will end up in homemade yogurt! In an hour and a half we had about two gallons of blueberries to bring home - and since it wasn't quite 8 quarts, they only charged us for 7. Wasn't that nice! Since blueberries are so easy to process for storage I've got some in the dehydrator and some on trays in the freezer and plans to go back for more blueberries on Friday. We'll see how the week pans out!Want to know more about freezing blueberries? Check out my article at Helium.com.
What's your favorite thing to make with fresh (or frozen) blueberries?
My favorite thing to make with blueberries (fresh) is this pie: Prepare a single pie crust (deep pie dish). Combine 1 cup crushed berries & 2/3 cups water in a pot, simmer for about 3 minutes. Blend 1 cup sugar, 3 tbsp cornstarch & 1/3 cup water. Add to cooking berries. Boil until thick, stir constantly. Cool. Place 3 cups of fresh berries in the pie shell and cover with cooled glaze (or you can just mix up the berries in the pot with the glaze and then pour them all into the pie crust - either way). Refrigerate until firm. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
ReplyDeleteOooh - this is getting passed on to HandyMan - the resident pie-maker! I told him hat since we have more blueberries than strawberries this year he was going to have to perfect a blueberry pie!
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