Book Giveaway: The Berry Bible
We’re just moving into berry season on our three acre micro-farm. Yesterday my 5 and 8 year old daughters spent half an hour picking (and eating) raspberries. Not many actually made it inside, but I felt pretty special when they graced me with half a cup of berries, complete with a note that said, ‘We love mom.”
Berries are better than candy to me. Give me strawberries and I’ll happily skip ice cream or cookies. Off-season prices are way too rich for my budget, so I enjoy my berries in summertime. One exception: Costco frozen blueberries. I can usually buy a 4-lb bag for $8. That’s enough berries for several blueberry-apricot crisps and a batch or two of blueberry pancakes or muffins. Not bad.
Given my love of berries, I was delighted when I was offered a copy of The Berry Bible 
Any type of cake with whipped cream frosting!!
Just good old plain strawberries with some whipped cream. Yum!
That book looks fabulous! My husband makes incredible pies and we use our berries to make desserts like fresh blueberry pie with cornmeal crust, or razzleberry pie. Lately I’ve been been using our strawberries to flavor homemade yogurt. Sometimes I wish we lived in the northwest where berry bushes grow like weeds!
I like to eat frozen blueberries right from the freezer while waiting for blueberry pancakes to cook on Sunday mornings…
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Probably eat fresh berries with ice cream, although in winter I like to make a yummy fruit salad with apples, oranges, bananas, a handful of frozen raspberries, plain yogurt, vanilla extract, and either maple syrup or stevia to sweeten. I also like berry muffins, berry cobblers, berry pies, and well, pretty much anything with berries!
My wife has been talking smoothies lately and how much you need some good, strong berries to make them delicious. Unfortunately good berries are hard to come by in our area. Maybe we need to be growing our own?
I love to simply have them washed and waiting in the refrigerator for whatever strikes my fancy…tossed onto a bowl of cereal, stirred into pancakes, blended into a quick smoothie, or just eaten by hand. But I also have a super-quick cobbler recipe that my husband adores, and he usually begs for me to make it as soon as the berries appear in the fridge!
Love them all – but rasperries in a bowl of milk are the best!
Berries yummmmmmmmm. Do I have to pick just one….how about two.
Blackberries and milk. My dad used to love picking blackberries, he would slip off carrying a bucket (we always knew where he was going, but pretended we didn’t) and come back with it loaded. We would enjoy them fresh with milk.
Another good one – strawberries – we usually pick 24 quarts (this year we did 33 quarts) for jam, frozen for shortcake later and my kids favorite strawberry slurry for yogurt. Take a quart of strawberries (frozen or fresh), put them in the food processor along with 1/4 of a cup sugar(more or less to your taste) and hit the on button. After a minute or two you’ll have a nice slurry to add to your plain yogurt – one of our morning staples. This keeps well for about a week or so (if it lasts that long). We mix it each day so the yogurt and fruit are fresh and not too combined.
Or then there is the tiny patch of raspberries 2 of the kids just discovered down by the orchard – so exciting to see them come running with cupped hands. “Mom look” they say – I open the door a crack and say “it’s not going to jump on me is it?” I watch as they slowly open their hands hoping whatever they have is a frog. It’s not and the smiles on their faces were priceless.
Oooppssss that was three.
Marsha
either just in fruit salad or muffins/coffee cake
We love berries with vanilla sugar sprinkled on top, or in pancakes, or in muffins….we like them in pretty much anything!
I found a great Blueberry Banana Bread recipe this year and we can’t get enough of it.
Michelle M,
I would love this recipe. I live in the middle of blueberry land in Michigan and they are all just coming ripe!
Please share!
BethAnn
In breakfast breads or simply with home made yogurt .. yum !!
I love eating them fresh in a fruit salad, it is a summer staple around here. We have a blackberry patch on my MIL’s property that we love to pick, they should be ready in a couple weeks here. I’m also planning permanent strawberry and blueberry beds in our garden next year.
Oh! I also have huckleberries ripening in my garden right now! I have never cooked with them, but can not wait!
I just like to eat berries right off the vine.
I like to throw strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries into some vanilla yogurt and blend for a smoothie.
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My husband of 9 years still makes us “his” pancakes…every Sunday morning for me and our son! They are the BEST pancakes I’ve ever tasted….especially since there’s NO DAIRY in the mix (he’s allergic!) so it’s the only way he can pancakes…they taste BEYOND exceptional with BLUEBERRIES! Yum!
My favorite thing to do with berries is to make jam! Yummy, yummy, homemade jam. Especially strawberry jam.
Place them on my daughters fingers and watch her laugh in utter delight at the thought of eating food off her fingers.
I would find a corner under my cherry tree and indulge in some delicous farmers maket organic straberrys that I would have perchaced from a local grower pondering at what delights I could make for my family and friends.
Rachel
Pop one right into my mouth-picked from the little strawberry patch in our backyard.
I love to eat the raspberries and blueberries we grow on my cereal. I use frozen raspberries to make smoothies on popcorn night. My husband tops his lunch yogurt with berries each day.
I would love to be the lucky recipient of the Berry Bible
I just love to eat them by the handful! If there is a LOT though – I love making berry juice.
Berries are yummy to eat straight up! Or in muffins!
Yum!!
I love strawberries and blueberries mixed with some homemade vanilla yogurt. Yum!
I once made a raspberry and blackberry crisp (like apple crisp) and served it with vanilla ice cream. So good!
I also really like blackberries mixed into my oatmeal in the morning.
I don’t think I can pick a favorite thing! Berry jams are my favorite though so I make plenty of that each year from my strawberries, raspberries, and from wild blackberries and huckleberries.
I also can raspberries to eat at breakfast throughout the year and freeze all types for baking.
I love the dewberries that grow here in Texas. We used to get them near my grandmother’s house when I was a kid and eat them either with milk or in a dewberry cobbler. Then just this past May we were driving home from Houston and saw a man sitting on the side of the road with a small fruit stand-selling watermelons mostly. I decided to stop and see what prices he had when there tucked under his table were cups full of dewberries that he had picked himself! We purchased some and brought them home to bowls of milk and a little sugar to sweeten them and enjoyed for dinner a little piece of heaven on earth along with wonderful memories of my grandparents.
I love fresh berries with vanilla yogurt and granola. MMMM best breakfast ever in my book.
I love making smoothies with berries since of all the fruit they seem to work best for those.
Strawberry bread! Blueberry muffins! Blueberry pancakes!! The list is endless…berries are my favorite:-)
I’ve been making great blueberry ice cream in our counter-top ice cream freezer, using those frozen blueberries from Costco. I use only half the sugar, and substitute milk for part of the cream, improving the nutrition of the recipe. Yummy!
Homemade strawberry freezer jam. Yum!!
Eat them while picking!
I like to pour sweetened cream over frozen berries. Wait a minute or two and the cream starts to slushify (yep, made that word up!) and the result is very delicious!
I like to mix fresh blueberries and vanilla yogurt together for a quick, delicious treat.
I love fresh blueberry muffins or pancakes. I’m stocking up now while they are on sale so we’ll have some this winter.
I like making jam, and I’m quite fond of the blueberry muffin recipe in your book as well (I add berries to it–I also like to switch out yogurt flavors and add the matching berry. Strawberry muffins done this way are fantastic!)
I just love eating them straight. Whipped cream, cake, sugar, and everything else just dilutes the flavor.
Do you like GOOSEBERRIES??? We have one bush that yields enough berries for about 5 overstuffed pies. I made one last night and used Splenda so I could take a piece to my 87 year old diabetic father this morning. He was so excited:)
I just recently purchased some blueberry cider from the farmers market, makes an excellent vinagerette for a green salad. We throw in some goat cheese, walnuts and a few whole berries.
We are very blessed to have lots of huckleberries growing wild around our town. When it is a good year we pick them and freeze them for muffins and pancakes. If it is a really good year we even get some jam. My children like them best fresh, by the handful.
we like to put berries in our cereal. all 3 of my boys LOVE berries and they eat them as soon as i bring them home.
Nothing quite like strawberry shortcake.
My husband calls strawberries the “wonder fruit.”
My favorite thing to do with berries is watch my boys eat them. They have several food allergies; oftentimes, their go-to dessert includes berries.
Berries, yogurt with granola for breakfast or berries and oatmeal! My kids love to eat them fresh or right out of the freezer. Smoothies are super popular at our home. Love to add them to muffins!
A lovely fresh mulberry pie, yum!
Eat them plain and out of the carton!!! But I do love making a simple berry pie or muffins or cobbler and I would SO LOVE this cookbook! THanks!
I love berries plain and simple. But in smoothies or ice cream they are extra good!!
We love us some blueberry muffins and blackberry cobbler. YUMMY!
I totally missed this giveaway (bummer!), but I’ll post anyway.
We LOVE fresh berry smoothies around here. And you can’t beat french toast topped with berries and cream Yuhuhummy!