Friday morning, Callie and I joined Leah and Erma out at Hillcrest Blueberry Farm for a relaxing morning of picking. Several years ago, Callie and I picked blueberries at another farm--Hillcrest is much bigger!
It has been rainy all week, so the grass was quite wet, but not muddy. And it sprinkled on us as we picked blackberries, but it didn't last too long, or stop us.
I never even knew there were different varieties of blackberries (never thought about it, I guess), but there are. I chose to pick on the "blue" rows, where the plants are thorn-less and the berries are the sweetest.
The bushes were loaded and the berries were so pretty!
It didn't take long to fill our buckets with blackberries.
I caught sight of a tiny bunny watching for his chance to sneak a bite. He reminded me of the story of Peter Cottontail, but of course, no little blue jacket on this bunny.
After dropping off our blackberries, we got new buckets and headed out to the blueberry field.
Callie thought that it was very convenient at this stage of her pregnancy that she could pick berries without even having to lean over!
Once our buckets were full, we paid for them and headed back home, dreaming of recipes we could use them in.
Back at my house, I discovered that the guys were hard at work installing my new sprinkler system in the backyard, so I made up a bag of berries for each of them. Leah shared her recipe for blackberry cobbler, and Callie made it Friday night---she reported that Jordan decided that he DID indeed like cobbler after all.!
I made blueberry waffles Saturday morning that were quite yummy . . .
. . .. and blackberry crumble tonight (I didn't have any milk on hand to make the cobbler).
As evidenced by the empty bowl, it was a hit!
I think since it contained oats, it could be classified as breakfast. What do you think?
Here is the cobbler recipe that Leah shared with us:
Fruit Cobbler
1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 c. milk
MIX ALL TOGETHER.
Melt 1/2 stick margarine (or butter) in bottom of a pan then add the other ingredients.
ADD 2 cups fruit to top.
SPRINKLE with sugar.
BAKE at 375 for 30 minutes.
Here is the cobbler recipe that Leah shared with us:
Fruit Cobbler
1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 c. milk
MIX ALL TOGETHER.
Melt 1/2 stick margarine (or butter) in bottom of a pan then add the other ingredients.
ADD 2 cups fruit to top.
SPRINKLE with sugar.
BAKE at 375 for 30 minutes.
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