In the Pacific Northwest we're blessed with a summer berry season that'll last into early September. This weekend, I made my first round of tayberry and raspberry jam and I made a simple, gorgeous raspberry crostata that's perfect for two.
Pie has never been my forte, but a rustic galette or crostata is right…
At the tail-end of blackberry season, every week is a guessing game. Whose berries will best? Last week, the Skagit Sun blackberries and golden raspberries were terrific. This week those blackberries were phenomenal -- sweet and full of berry flavor. It's not hyperbole. I bought a mixed flat of blackberries, golden raspberries and regular raspberries and ate half a basket of the blackberries as I walked back to the car. Then I high-tailed it back to their booth to get another flat of just blackberries. I thought I might make pork chops with a blackberry-cabernet sauce, but then I remembered this froyo.