Right now blueberries are in season big time in Oregon and it always seems like everyone I know buys tons, or grows loads – way too many to deal with all at once, which got me thinking about saving them properly. If you get a bumper crop harvest or just plain buy too many you may feel overwhelmed. Here’s how to keep your berries fresh longer – or at least get more use out of them.

When picking make sure to sort out the duds: Duds are still edible, but if you want the best saved for use you can easily …read more

We have both red and black raspberries in the fence row by our house, but we don’t have enough of either to make a pie or cobbler. Over the last two days I picked about a cup to a cup and a half of the little raspberries (that doesn’t count the ones I ate while I was picking, and the berries that were snitched from the container when I brought them in the house).
My husband said raspberries and ice cream sounded good, so I decided I’d make a simple raspberry sauce out of the raspberries and a little sugar.
I took …read more

Throughout the years, quilters have been interested in recipes (exchanging them, serving at quilting bees, collecting into recipe books).  It’s not unusual to find an occasional recipe in a quilting newsletter or on a web site.  Havasu Quilts has offered raspberry recipes recently in occasional e-newsletters.
This week, you’ll find one for “Raspberry Pretzel Squares,” which looks delicious and is very timely during raspberry season.  You’ll find the recipe at: http://www.havasuquilts.com/newsletter/newsletter.html .