<p>mathmom, they say the blueberry crop is early this year because of the warm spring we have had this year. Strawberries were very early too. So you might just luck out…</p>
<p>I am growing lots of half high blueberries I like them on ice cream-
ground ginger/cloves with a tiny bit of cinnamon bring out their flavor- especially nice with store bought.</p>
<p>I suppose I should make a cobbler- but that would be baking.</p>
<p>I hope you are right JustaMom, because after going straight up for two hours, it’s really fun to be able to pick blueberries.</p>
<p>I’m more of a cook than a baker. So I go for EASY baking recipes. I usually make this once per year…did one yesterday. I serve it with vanilla ice cream.
[Bill’s</a> Blueberry Cobbler Recipe at Epicurious.com](<a href=“http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Bills-Blueberry-Cobbler-15274]Bill’s”>http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Bills-Blueberry-Cobbler-15274)</p>
<p>I also use blueberries in my fruit smoothies…along with TJ’s frozen mango, strawberries, bananas, and a bit of water. And on my cereal. And on top of greek yogurt. LOVE blueberries.</p>
<p>Toneranger - ditto on the smoothies. I throw them in with my chocolate smoothie in the morning (1 chopped banana, frozen, 1 cup low fat vanilla soy, 2 tsp. hershey’s cocoa).</p>
<p>I just love blueberries with cantaloupe and raspberries. We have been making a big bowl of fruit salad every day. It is so good.</p>
<p>FaxNom - can’t wait to try your recipe on salmon.</p>
<p>Put them in beer and watch them float up and down on the bubbles.</p>
<p>Or serve them in a salad with sliced mangoes, red onions, red peppers, mint, fresh basil, soysauce, ginger and sesame oil.</p>
<p>Here is a recipe I invented to use some rhubarb, but the blueberries on my bushes are starting to ripen, so now I will have to try it with bluebs. </p>
<p>Wicked Excellent Fruit Tart</p>
<p>Preheat oven to 325F or 350F </p>
<p>Put premade pie crust in 10" tart pan. (if you are ambitious, make a shortbread crust) </p>
<p>Sprinkle onto crust:
2-3 Tbsp minced crystalized ginger </p>
<p>Beat together: </p>
<pre><code> 1 egg
8 oz. mascarpone or cream cheese
1/4 cup honey
1 /2 tsp vanilla
</code></pre>
<p>Stir together:
3 cups blueberries or other fruit
2 Tbsp. cornstarch --or 1 Tbsp.arrowroot
1/3 cup honey (really I never measure, but 3-4 good sized glugs should
do it, depending on tartness of fruit.) </p>
<p>Spread fruit in pie shell and pour custard mixture over the berries. </p>
<p>Bake for 30-35 minutes, until golden.</p>
<p>My H makes an incredibly wonderful blueberry mead (just bought the flat for this year’s batch.)</p>
<p>I don’t know what mead is…^^^</p>
<p>I have been eating cases of blueberries all summer thanks to Costco. I eat them by the handful.
I also love them in tart frozen yogurt.
These blueberry lemon cookies sound amazing.
[Blueberry</a> Lemon Cookies - Free blueberry recipes!](<a href=“http://www.blueberry-recipe.com/blueberry-lemon-cookies.html]Blueberry”>Blueberry Lemon Cookies - Free blueberry recipes!)</p>
<p>abasket–mead is an alcoholic drink made with a honey base (though the sugar converts to alcohol, so it’s not particularly sweet). If fruit is used in the process, it’s actually known as melomel, but I didn’t use that term, since it’s kind of obscure. Anyway, the stuff is outrageously good.</p>
<p>Got it! I’m not much of a drinker, but honest, I’ve never heard the word before!</p>
<p>Wow, so many great ideas.
This thread brought me back to my early teen years, when a kid could get paid pretty well to pick blueberries. 10 cents a pound (and don’t be dumping your bucket into the scale with any green ones in there!). At 14 I could make 4 or 5 dollars on a good day. Since ski lift tickets were $5 to $7, you could finance a whole season in 3 or 4 weeks work. It beat babysitting at $.50 per hour, and you could hang out with older cute boys instead of the diaper crowd.
OK, enough nostalgia, back to your regular programming…</p>
<p>I have them in my green smoothie every morning.
I love blueberry pancakes.
I make: Blueberry-Strawberry Cream Berry Tart
Blueberry-Peach Cobbler
Blueberry Lemon Tea Cake
Blueberry Honey Granola with dried wild blueberries</p>
<p>Blueberry Wheat or Blueberry Porter beer!</p>
<p>The family loves my two-berry pie. Made like the blueberry but with raspberries included. Did it on a whim one time when I did not have enough blueberries for a full pie but the raspberries in the garden were coming in. Filled the rest of the required amount of berries with them and it was a hit.</p>
<p>This cake is DELICIOUS – good in the morning as a coffeecake, good in the afternoon, good in the evening, good as a late-night snack!!
[Blueberry</a> Lemon Bundt Cake With Lemon Glaze - 244117 - Recipezaar](<a href=“http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Blueberry-Lemon-Bundt-Cake-With-Lemon-Glaze-244117]Blueberry”>http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Blueberry-Lemon-Bundt-Cake-With-Lemon-Glaze-244117)</p>
<p>Bowdoin Blueberry Muffins. You must try them. I had them at the college, and making them at home is even better!
[Archived</a> Recipes (Bowdoin, Dining)](<a href=“http://www.bowdoin.edu/dining/archived-bowdoin-recipes.shtml]Archived”>http://www.bowdoin.edu/dining/archived-bowdoin-recipes.shtml)</p>
<p>Mead is the drink of the Norse gods. That’s what the Mighty Thor says.</p>