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Potato Salad and Patriotism (with a bit of Blackberry Cobbler)
It’s the 4th of July, a day many Americans celebrate with beer, bizarre outfits and bloviating about “the greatest best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.” Gourmandistan takes a...
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Bee suits, bittersweet, brambles and blackberry jam
We are having a wonderful year for wild blackberries. Steve, determined to make the most of it, has been tramping out to a patch every morning for a couple of weeks. It’s a lovely spot, surrounded by...
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Blackberry chocolate chip ice cream makes you beg for a briar patch.
Blackberries, it seems, would prefer you not pick them. That must be why in addition to hundreds of tiny sharp thorns ready to embed themselves in your skin, blackberry bushes arm themselves with an...
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Wild blackberry curd and buttercream make a lovely wedding (cake)
The wedding that eventually led to Gourmandistan happened many years ago, and it has been quite a while since we’ve attended anyone else’s. However, a combination of Michelle’s imagination and Steve’s...
View ArticleBlackberry bounty brings some beautiful blackberry bars
It has been a banner year for wild blackberries in Gourmandistan. We had enough for several batches of blackberry jam plus some blackberry cobblers (including several cups frozen for a future cobbler...
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