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Blackberry and Pear Pavlova

October 4, 2015 By All That I'm Eating 19 Comments

Blackberry and Pear Pavlova

This is only my second pavlova. To me, meringue has always been steeped in mystery and wonder and I found it slightly intimidating. Crispy on the outside, gooey in the middle; is this all really achievable with just two ingredients? Well yes, turns out it is. My two attempts I couldn’t have been more pleased with; previously a summer berry version and this time my Blackberry and Pear Pavlova (which also happens to be all organic) and the pudding portion of my #thriftyorganic challenge.

You will need (all ingredients organic): read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Baking, Berries, Blackberry, Cream, Dairy & Eggs, Eggs, Foraging, Fruit, October, Pear, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons Tagged With: berries, pudding, recipe

Baked Blackberry Cheesecake

October 16, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 22 Comments

baked blackberry cheesecake
You know when you go out blackberry picking you end up eating pretty much all of them and have nothing to show for it when you get home? As much as it is very hard to resist keeping any of the berries for later I thought it would be well worth the effort for a sort of hidden gem baked blackberry cheesecake. Beneath the pillowy layers of soft cheese you can find little bits of sweet, purple fruit. I didn’t have to save too many either as you only need a handful for this recipe. They do say that picking blackberries in October isn’t a good idea as the devil is meant to have peed on them. If you feel like living on the edge then by all means take the risk; if not, a quick trip to the shops should sort you out.

Ingredients

You will need:

  • 180g digestive biscuits
  • 75g butter
  • 600g cream cheese
  • 220g caster sugar
  • 150g sour cream
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 tbsp. plain flour
  • Large handful blackberries

Method

Line the base of a 20cm spring form cake tin. Spring form is your friend for this.
Preheat an oven to 130C.

Crush the digestive biscuits in a bowl; I like to use the end of my rolling pin as it’s immensely satisfying. Melt the butter and mix this into the biscuits.

When the biscuits and butter are well combined press the mixture into the bottom of the cake tin and then chill in the fridge.

Whisk together the cream cheese and sugar then mix in the sour cream.

Add the eggs one at a time then add the flour. read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Baking, Berries, Biscuit, Blackberry, Butter, Cheese, Dairy & Eggs, Eggs, Foraging, Fruit, October, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons Tagged With: Baking, foraging, recipe

Blackberry and Perry Jelly

September 30, 2012 By All That I'm Eating 21 Comments

blackberry and perry jelly
Nothing says autumn like a huge hedgerow full of blackberries. There’s not much that compares to putting on your wellies, grabbing some receptacles and heading out to the nearest scouring ground. I think there’s an unwritten law somewhere that decrees, ‘one for me, one for later’. That’s how I operate anyway.

The potential that a blackberry brings to the kitchen is endless; add a few to some gravy for a wonderful sweetness or, inevitably, use them alone or with other fruits for a marvellous array of puddings. Autumn also brings with it apples and pears and, preferring to eat my pears nice and ripe, I turned to perry to pair with my berries.

In order to use some locally made perry I had to get my Poirot on and try to find a supply. As luck would have it my butcher lives next door to a man who happens to make some using local pears. I returned to the old (and I think better) bartering system I managed to procure a bottle of fine perry in exchange for some rabbit ragu. Marvellous. read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Berries, Blackberry, Drinks, Foraging, Fruit, Jelly, Perry, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, September Tagged With: jelly, perry, pudding

Sloe and Hedgerow Gin: The Taste Test

November 22, 2011 By All That I'm Eating 15 Comments

Some of you may know that I made my own sloe gin and hedgerow gin this year. It all started on a warm September afternoon with a kilo of sloes, some hedgerow berries, a sprinkling of sugar and a litre of fine gin. It’s something I’ve never even attempted before but I thought how hard can it be?
Turns out it’s extremely simple. Put it all together and leave the flavours and juices to mingle and infuse for as long as you can wait. The longer you can wait the better as the flavour gets more intense and the colour gets darker. read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Blackberry, Cocktails, Drinks, Foraging, Gin, November, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Sloe Tagged With: drinks, foraging, gin, sloe

Making Sloe and Hedgerow Gin

October 23, 2011 By All That I'm Eating 25 Comments

picking sloes for gin
Apart from autumn being the time for pumpkin soup, squash in all its forms and stews galore it is also the time for making sloe and hedgerow gin. There are some sloe purists who will not touch this lovely berry until a frost has been. Then there are those like me who pick them nice and early and speed nature up a bit. Either way if you’ve got sloes around it means it’s time to make some sloe and hedgerow gin.   Whether you decide to make sloe gin, hedgerow gin or both you will need to wait a little while before it’s ready. But that’s part of the fun of it, knowing that stashed at in a corner of a cupboard somewhere you are sitting on a purple elixir which is just perfect for sipping in the winter.  

Top Tips

I very much advise you wash your sloes before freezing otherwise you might end up with a few (used to be) living hedgerow beings in your finished gin. I’m not sure anybody would appreciate you pouring them a spider.

When you go out to pick your sloes I must warn you that 1kg of sloes is a good couple of hours of work, scratched wrists, attack of the stinging nettles and excellent fun if you take a friend. I’m not making it sound very appealing but what you get at the end of all the work makes it so worthwhile. You can take a look at this handy guide if you’re new to foraging to help you identify the sloes. I also have a few golden nuggets of foraging advice too. read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Blackberry, Cocktails, Drinks, Foraging, Gin, October, Recipes By Month, Rosehip, Seasons, September, Sloe Tagged With: drinks, foraging, gin, sloe

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