Simple Blueberry Recipes

The kids and I took a road trip to Pine Haven Farms in Bayfield to pick blueberries this weekend and had a blast.  We've picked there in years past, but they only had a small section of organic blueberries (blueberries are on the dirty dozen list), but this year they went ALL ORGANIC!!   The kids and I went to town and had our buckets full in minutes.

Greta and I picking blueberries - we are totally into neon this year (can you say 80's flashback?)

On the way home, our neighbor friend (who was with us) said in her cute voice, "can you make me a blueberry pie?" so of course I had to deliver.  I used my Great Aunt Helen Myrhe's recipe (originator of the Norske Nook) and it was super delicious!  Her blueberry pie recipe is soupy but we like to serve it up in bowls and eat it with a spoon.

BLUEBERRY PIE

1 double crust
5 cups of blueberries
1/2 cup flour
2 cups of sugar and a little to sprinkle over
1 heaping tablespoon cornstarch
4 tablespoons butter

1.  Preheat the oven to 350 and press the bottom crust into the bottom of the tin, and heap with blueberries.

2.  In a small bowl, mix flour, sugar, and cornstarch together.  Sprinkle over the berries and dot with think slices of butter.

3.  Cover with slitted top crust and flute.

4.  Sprinkle with a little sugar and bake for one hour or until a knife stuck into a slit does not come out sugary.

Blueberry Pie - on my Grandma's table cloth
S for Sophie and G for Graham, Gus and Greta

Next up, I made some blueberry muffins and they were delicious also from my famous Great Aunt Helen.

Blueberry Muffins

2 cups of flour
1/2 cup of sugar plus a little more to sprinkle on top of batter
3 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg, slightly beaten

1.  Preheat the oven to 400.  In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.  Stir in the blueberries.

2.  In a small bowl, combine the milk, oil and egg, using a fork to mix well.

3.  Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, pour in the liquid all at once, stir quickly with a fork, just until the dry ingredients are moistened (do not over mix).

4.  Spoon the batter into a prepared muffin tin and sprinkle the top with a little sugar.

5.  Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until golden brown.

Blueberry Muffins

We marked a few things off our summer bucket list 2012 like our Bayfield berry picking extravaganza and our visit to my favorite beach in Wisconsin - Friendly Valley Beach in Bayfield.  The beach is shallow, warm and the sand is as soft as feathers and stretches as long as the eye can see.

Friendly Valley Beach



And of course, we had to bury someone in the sand, guess who?

Sand Fun

Tonight, we're having BLT's or ALT's (avocado, lettuce, tomato) with tomatoes and lettuce from the garden with a side of garden green beans.  How cool is that??

What's your favorite blueberry dish?  We are going through the blueberries like mad and I'm also trying to fill up the freezer because blueberries are by far our favorite fruit :)   Do you have any favorite blueberry recipes? 


Kristin