Food & Gardening

An eggplant on the vine


An eggplant on the vine


Some of the harvested eggplants


Eggplant with onions and two cheeses (with homemade wheat bread)



Homemade pita bread and wheat bread


Homemade onion pizza (so very easy to make, and delicious!)


Homemade sausage and extra cheese pizza


Blackberry-blueberry pie 2.0 (not yet baked)


Blackberry-blueberry pie 2.0 (after baking)


Hydrangeas in the front yard (long gone by now)


Strawberries from the yard

Blackberry-Blueberry Pie

I haven't posted any garden or food-related entries in a while, so here's one. Yesterday, C and I harvested some of the many blackberries, and the few raspberries, that were ripe, and then, for the holiday, I made a blackberry-blueberry-raspberry pie.  I'd never made one of these before; in the past we've eaten the blackberries and blueberries for breakfast, used them in smoothies, made blackberry mojito sorbets, and so forth, but yesterday I thought, why not try a pie? I tried Mark Bittman's recipes for the crust and the filling from How to Cook Everything, and think it turned out well. C agrees! The blackberries were sufficiently tart that they paired well with the sweetness of the blueberries and the sugar in the recipe, and the buttery crust. Photos (all by C or I):

Harvesting the blackberries (on a ladder)

Putting them in the collecting cup

The blackberries and blueberries

The blackberries divided up

Making the dough and rolling it out

Putting it in the Pyrex pie pan

Pricking the crust

Adding the berry filling

Adding the top strips

The finished pie, before baking

Putting the pie in the oven

The finished pie, from above

The finished pie!