Every year, when the blueberries and strawberries first hit the markets in all their big, sweet, juicy glory in the early months of summer, I experience the same feeling: I just can’t bear to bake or make them into anything. I shovel cartons and cartons into my cart, visions of blueberry pie and strawberry shortcake dancing happily in my head, and then I get home and I just…eat the whole carton in one sitting. The goodness of plain, unadulterated berries is just too powerful, and I cave easily, with stained hands and a happy heart.
Category: Crisps and Crumbles
Mini Pear Crisp with Beer Salted Caramel Sauce
Are we ready for some real talk today? Some happy/sad/nervous/excited real-life real talk? I hope so, because I am basically in a glass case of emotion.
This right here is my last post as a Chicagoan. Brad and I are packin’ up and doing the whole move-across-the-country thing, because in just a few short weeks he’ll start grad school at UC Berkeley. While so many parts of me are incredibly thrilled and excited for this next chapter in our lives (and, uh, 75-degree winters), thinking about leaving the people I love, this city I call home in every sense of the word, and the wonderful life we have here makes me feel super squeamy inside. Technical term.
Vanilla Bean Peach Crisp
So it’s Labor Day weekend and we deserve to celebrate the unofficial end of summer with a bang.
And by bang I mean hot-out-of-the-oven vanilla bean peach crisp topped with a giant scoop of vanilla ice cream. That’s cool, right?