Work In Progress
Bird Watching Buddies
We finally took a minute to refill the bird feeders last night, Miss Chompy and I.
It’s been a while and they were wondering if we’d moved to Portugal or something.
So, naturally I was excited to show the girly-girly how many birds discovered their breakfast on our deck this morning.
She gets such a kick out of watching our little flighty friends, but I couldn’t find that chicky anywhere.
It’s really so much more fun to hang out with someone who positively, absolutely LOVES these birdies–like I do.
Ah, well. Guess that works too.
Heh, heh.
Very Berry Crumble
With a freezer full of raspberries, blueberries and strawberries from…ahem…last year, I have sincerely been on the look-out for any truly yummy way to use them before they become… extinct so-to-speak.
I found this lovely thing in the Gold Medal Whole Wheat Baking book that you can print out for free if you click the link. I tweaked it just a tad and it turned out simply scrumptious. In fact, with my high blueberry to other berry ratio–I love them–it ended up reminding me of a Blueberry Poptart…with whole wheat and oatmeal…sort of. :}
Ingredients:
7 cups misc. berries–we used a combination of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries
3 Tbsps cornstarch
2 Tbsps sugar
In a 2 quart saucepan, mash 2 cups of berries; stir in cornstarch and sugar. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture boils. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in remaining berries. Pour in a 9 x 13 glass baking dish.
Topping Ingredients:
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 cup butter
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
In a small bowl, mix all ingredients with pastry blender or fork until crumbly.
Sprinkle over berry mixture.
Bake about 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown.
Serve with ice cream…a whole ton of ice cream. More ice cream, in fact, than we dared show here for fear that you, my friends, would run off screaming.
Yep. One, big, ice creamy…
poptart.
Yum.
Very Berry Crumble
Ingredients
- 7 cups misc. berries
- 3 Tbsps cornstarch
- 2 Tbsps sugar
Instructions
- In a 2 quart saucepan, mash 2 cups of berries; stir in cornstarch and sugar.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture boils.
- Boil and stir 1 minute.
- Stir in remaining berries.
- Pour in a 9 x 13 glass baking dish.
Notes
Topping Ingredients: ⅔ cup packed brown sugar ½ cup whole wheat flour ½ cup oatmeal ½ tsp. cinnamon ¼ tsp. salt ⅓ cup butter Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, mix all ingredients with pastry blender or fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over berry mixture. Bake about 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown. Serve with ice cream.
Hooray…
for itty, bitty baby kisses.
:}