No purple pie man this year
By esther on Friday, August 11 2006, 13:40 - For the birds - Permalink
By far my fave berry to pick although the pickin's were pretty slim this year. After an hour with my head in the bushes, several proclamations of "AH HA, I found some!!" and some much needed snorting and cold-hearted looks in the direction of neighbouring child scavengers, I exited the bush with an entire half pint of blueberries. I felt good though, with twigs in my hair and nary a stain in sight and I felt like I deserved a metal. The Purple Heart would be fitting wouldn't it?
Too few for a pie...but just enough to accompany some magret de canard in the fridge and some left over Saint Agur. After pan frying the duck, I whipped up a blueberry and shallot red wine sauce. My in-house taste tester informed me that he would have preferred using white wine over red but the only white I had was a bottle of Tokaji (5 puttonyos!!! - the best) which is a sweet white Hungarian wine that my mother-in-law supplies us with and I wasn't about to waste it in a sauce.
Blue and blue just go together. Dear cheese with sweet berries, fries and pan fried seasoned duck breast, I thank you and my cholesterol thanks you too.
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Those are some fantastic photos! You have a great eye for this..
Esthere (with an accent), tell me what camera you're using; it's too beautiful. I feel your love of blueberries: bought 6 plants for me and the kids to enjoy once they are no longer spindly little newborns...ST
My camera is no longer. I just dropped of my Sony DSC-W17 to be fixed. They told me I have to wait a month for it to be fixed- so very sad. On the otherhand, if there is anyone out there that would like to sponsor me with a nice little digital Reflex, I would be totally willing to push the ad on my site :)
The blueberry & shallot sauce looks great. I have tried cherry sauces with duck before and loved it. Blueberry pie is a big dose of berries for me, but paired with the savory duck and piquant blue cheese would absolutely taste like 'more".