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Blueberry Spelt Muffins
This recipe features my go-to base recipe for muffins with the welcome addition of plump, sweet blueberries and nutty spelt flour.
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Lemon Berry Zucchini Bread
Tired of zucchini casserole, grilled zucchini, zoodles, and even chocolate zucchini cake? Here is a refreshing way to use up summer’s abundance.
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Blueberry Peach Crisp
In the Northeastern United States, where we live, blueberries and peaches both arrive around mid-July and they are a natural paired together, the tartness of the blueberries cutting the ultra sweetness of a perfectly ripened peach. We tend to eat this straight out of the oven, when the fruit is still hot enough to burn our tongues, topped with a scoop of melting vanilla ice cream. The leftovers also make a pretty decent (occasional) breakfast.
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Raspberry Muffins
A few weeks ago I was taking a twilit summer stroll through our back field with my husband and our two dogs when all of a sudden I spotted something in the hedges along the south fence. “Stop,” I said, with an urgency that made everyone obey and the dogs perk up their ears. “What is it?” my husband replied. “Are those…raspberries?” I exclaimed skeptically, wading into the hedgerow. And they were. There were tons of them, in fact. You see, I’d known there were wild raspberries on the property since I bought it eight years ago, but they’d never seemed to produce enough to make them worth bothering with before. Then a…
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All-Butter Pie Crust
This food processor recipe for pâte Brisée, the traditional French shortcrust used for pies and tarts, is astonishingly simple to make and yields a sturdy, flaky crust with rich, buttery flavor. If you’re familiar with making pastry dough, you might be scandalized at the thought of using a food processor to cut in cold butter. I know I was the first time I heard about it. The reason it works is that a food processor is so much more powerful than a fork or pastry cutter wielded by hand that it breaks the butter up and incorporates it very quickly, before it has a chance to get warm and melty. Warm and melty…
