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Berry monday: galette

August 12, 2013

It’s berry Monday again! This week I used a mix of berries to make a galette.

I used blueberries, tayberries, and marionberries.

I used a vegan galette recipe that I found over at My New Roots. I left out the thyme from the filling and used berries instead of stone fruits. I also left out the poppy seeds in the crust but mostly just because I didn’t have any. I mixed the filling, rolled out the crust after it had chilled, folded up the sides and baked it. It was really tasty.

I also made a blackberry galette with the wild blackberries I picked. It was equally delicious. Galettes are really easy to make and you can put just about any filling you want in them. I would recommend a berry peach one. Mmm…is it time to make another?

What flavor would you make?

Berry monday: muffins

August 5, 2013

Welcome to the second berry Monday! Before I share how I used some of these berries I wanted to introduce you to all the berries that are featured in upcoming recipes.

First on my recipe list are muffins! I used the following berries:

Blueberries:

Tayberries:

Boysenberries:

For the muffins I used a basic fat free vegan muffin recipe that also uses whole wheat pastry flour (fat free means you’ll usually see applesauce in place of oil in the recipe). You can also find a traditional basic muffin recipe if you prefer. I then split the recipe into thirds. To 1/3 I folded in about a 1/3 cup of blueberries, to the next 1/3 I folded in 1/3 cup of tayberries, and then the final 1/3 was pretty exciting. Since the boysenberries are so large I put a little bit of batter on the bottom of the muffin liner, I placed a berry on top, and covered it with batter making what I hoped would be a berry center filled muffin. Each berry mixture made 4 muffins for a total of 12.

They were delicious and my berry filled muffin was a success!

Which flavor would you like to try the most?

Berry monday: u-pick

July 29, 2013

It seems I have been a bit berry crazed this summer so I thought it would be fun to write a berry related post every Monday for the next few weeks. I have pictures, recipes, ideas, and tips so basically it should be really fun.

First up is my trip to the most amazing u-pick berry farm I’ve ever been to. I picked 17 pounds of berries which fueled this idea in the first place. I had just gotten back from San Francisco the night before and I was up early the next day running around trying to catch a bus to my friends house. At this point I was thinking perhaps I had over committed myself, which I tend to do, but when we got to the farm I knew I had made the right choice.

They had u-pick everything! They had marionberries, raspberries, tayberries, boysenberries, blueberries, and blackberries! I was in berry heaven. Every row seemed to be more exciting than the next. I just picked and picked until it was time to go and that’s when I realized I had picked 17 pounds of berries in the same time my friends picked half as many.

^boysenberries! They were huge, it’s hard to tell how large but they are around the same size as a small plum.

^tayberries a mix between a blackberry and a raspberry-oh my!

^blueberries we very plentiful and delicious.

-marionberries, raspberries, blackberries.

Come back next week for more berry goodness! What’s your favorite berry recipe?

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