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Summer Berry Salad

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:56:36 +0000

My family has a deep abiding love of fruit salads. We usually include berries in a fruit salad but today I decided on a salad devoted exclusively to berries. A simple Summer Berry Salad is a delicious mixture of berries dressed with a minty honey lime dressing. Serve it as a side or an afternoon pick-me-up....

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Blackberry Crush No-churn Ice Cream

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 31 May 2016 15:09:59 +0000

Three ingredient no-churn ice cream is the season’s latest Internet sensation. It’s made with whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract. It’s a no-fuss, no-stress method of ice cream making that gives you homemade flavor. You can eat the vanilla ice cream just like it is and you’ll love it. You can, also, add...

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Blackberry Bourbon Crush

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 17 May 2016 01:23:26 +0000

Our blackberry bushes are starting to bloom which means blackberry season is around the corner. Honestly, I love growing and picking blackberries as much as eating them. Wild blackberry patches are scarce where we live. In fact, they might be non-existent. I don’t recall seeing a patch since we’ve lived here so I planted some...

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Sparkling Blackberry Lemonade and a GIVEAWAY

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:56:07 +0000

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Blackberry Muffins

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:28:38 +0000

It’s a rare occasion when we have only one of our twin grandchildren. Poor little Jackson had to undergo surgery to remove his adenoids. The surgery center was quite a distance from where we live. A 7:30 am appointment meant getting up and out in the early hours of the morning. I was going to...

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Blackberry Cordial

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:16:51 +0000

Blackberries are a summer crop where I live. I see them as God’s way of helping us through the miserable parts of Deep South summers. In the midst of stifling heat, oppressive humidity, mosquitoes that will tote you off, we have blackberries. Luscious, beautiful, black-purple orbs that bring delight to your lips all the way...

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Homemade Blackberry Syrup and Blackberry Butter

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:02:43 +0000

Turn pancakes made from from a mix into a special occasion by topping with homemade blackberry syrup and blackberry butter. I’m not exactly sure of the mechanism of action, but blackberries create some sort of chemical reaction that binds grandchildren to grandparents forever and ever. In order for this magical mystical reaction to...

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Summer Berries (Recipes: Blackberry Lavender Vinegar and Vinaigrette)

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:48:33 +0000

My love affair with my favorite summer berry, blackberry, is being fed a full course dinner this summer. The vines in my backyard generously yield daily harvests of the purplish-black fruit. A post by David Leite of Leite’s Culinaria for Chive Blossom Vinegar, inspired a use of my favorite summer berry for a flavored vinegar....

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Blackberry Cobbler

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:40:37 +0000

Blackberry Cobbler is an icon Southern dessert made with a sweeten blackberry filling and a biscuit like topping. This recipe is a Blue Ribbon winner. It started with blackberries that grew by the railroad track in Geneva, Alabama just down the street from my grandparent’s house in the Cotton Mill Village. I spent a lot...

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Small Version of a Good Thing (Recipe: Mini Fried Blackberry Pies)

Jackie Garvin — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:04:34 +0000

Fried pies are as familiar to Southerners as boiled peanuts and Moon Pies. We’ve been making them forever and a day. The construction is simple. It’s a crust filled with a sweet filling typically made of fruit or berries. The crust , made from pie or biscuit dough, is cut into small pieces, filled, folded...

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