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OT - deeeeelish!
Out for my bike ride this morning, I noticed a hedgerow *bursting* with ripe
blackberries. Nathan & I went back there this afternoon and picked loads. Nathan has never gone blackberry picking in the hedgerows before :-) We are now devouring a wild blackberry oaty crumble. It is *wonderful* and Nathan now understands the joy of picking fruits in the wild :-) Cheers, helen s ~~~~~~~~~~ This is sent from a redundant email Mail sent to it is dumped My correct one can be gleaned from h*$el***$$n*$d$ot$**s**i$$m*$m$**on**$s$@*$$a**$*o l*$*.*$$c$om*$ by getting rid of the overdependence on money and fame ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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"wafflyDIRTYcatLITTERhcsBOX" wrote in message ... Out for my bike ride this morning, I noticed a hedgerow *bursting* with ripe blackberries. Nathan & I went back there this afternoon and picked loads. Nathan has never gone blackberry picking in the hedgerows before :-) We are now devouring a wild blackberry oaty crumble. It is *wonderful* and Nathan now understands the joy of picking fruits in the wild :-) Cheers, helen s ~~~~~~~~~~ This is sent from a redundant email Mail sent to it is dumped My correct one can be gleaned from h*$el***$$n*$d$ot$**s**i$$m*$m$**on**$s$@*$$a**$*o l*$*.*$$c$om*$ by getting rid of the overdependence on money and fame ~~~~~~~~~~ mmmmmmmmmmm! have some for me! Brenda |
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wafflyDIRTYcatLITTERhcsBOX wrote:
It is *wonderful* and Nathan now understands the joy of picking fruits in the wild :-) It's just wonderful that you have fruits growing wild where you live! The closest thing we have are prickly pears, which are good, but not as good as blackberries. -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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wafflyDIRTYcatLITTERhcsBOX writes Out for my bike ride this morning, I noticed a hedgerow *bursting* with ripe blackberries. Nathan & I went back there this afternoon and picked loads. Nathan has never gone blackberry picking in the hedgerows before :-) We are now devouring a wild blackberry oaty crumble. It is *wonderful* and Nathan now understands the joy of picking fruits in the wild :-) Ah, the joys of blackberrying ..... we have a batch of home-made blackberry wine on the go here, plus enough in the freezer to do another gallon when we get back from the States. Should be fantastic come Christmas 2004. And we had blackberry ice cream this afternoon. Yum. -- Cathi Who went sloe-picking last weekend too |
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It's just wonderful that you have fruits growing wild where you live! The
closest thing we have are prickly pears, which are good, but not as good as blackberries. Victor, what's a prickly pear? Sherry |
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"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in It's just wonderful that you have fruits growing wild where you live! The closest thing we have are prickly pears, which are good, but not as good as blackberries. It is nice, though I'm not much of a picker. On the island, we have wild blueberries, bilberries, raspberries, cloudberries and rose hips. Oh, and a patch of wild strawberries decided to settle just outside our house a couple of summers ago. My sister and our Mum usually pick a lot of berries and freeze them for the winter, and then I can get some, too. ) The wild berries are much smaller than the cultivated ones, but they taste so much more. Yummy! -- Marina |
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"Marina" wrote in message
... "Victor M. Martinez" wrote in It's just wonderful that you have fruits growing wild where you live! The closest thing we have are prickly pears, which are good, but not as good as blackberries. It is nice, though I'm not much of a picker. On the island, we have wild blueberries, bilberries, raspberries, cloudberries and rose hips. Oh, and a patch of wild strawberries decided to settle just outside our house a couple of summers ago. My sister and our Mum usually pick a lot of berries and freeze them for the winter, and then I can get some, too. ) The wild berries are much smaller than the cultivated ones, but they taste so much more. Yummy! What our cloudberries? And Bilberries sound like the very cute rabbit-like marsupial of Australia, the Bilby. When I was younger, Dad took my sister & I up to the forest reserve. While the blackberries didn't grow in the forest, they'd grow arund the edges and the trails. We used to come home scratched and bitten and rather stained, but with lots and lots of delicious blackberries, which got made into various forms of fruity things and delight of delight, blackberry jam. Unfortunatley they are considered a great pest here and the council regularly sprays the bushes now, so you can't go picking (and since you can't tell a sprayed bush from one thats OK, *all* bushes are off limits just to be safe). But boy I miss my mother's homemade blackberry jam - made so thick you had to slice it out of the jar! Ah, childhood memories... Yowie |
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Sherry wrote:
Victor, what's a prickly pear? Just to add to the previously posted info (thanks!), there are several kinds of prickly pears. There are two common ones that are eaten in Mexico (it might be the same species with mature and immature fruits, I'm not sure): red and green ones. I prefer the green ones for some reason. They sell them during season in Mexico in carts, some sprinkle chili powder and salt in them, I prefer them plain. You have to be careful handling them because they are full of tiny little spines that will get intro your skin and never leave! Now that I think about it, it's been years since I ate one. Sometimes they sell them here, but they don't look nearly as fresh as the ones back home, plus they're expensive! -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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Polar bears are easy to catch. You just cut a hole in the ice and
sprinkle some canned peas around it. When the bear comes up to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole. :-) Marina wrote: "Yowie" wrote What our cloudberries? And Bilberries sound like the very cute rabbit-like marsupial of Australia, the Bilby. Cloudberries look like golden raspberries. They are a speciality of Lapland, but we get them here in southern Finland, too. They mostly grow in marshy places. The taste... I don't know how to describe the taste. It is unique, I think. Bilberries (actually bog bilberries - doesn't sound very delicious) look like waxed over bluberries. They don't have a very strong taste uncooked, but if you make a cordial out of them, it has a very mild, strange taste. I don't love it but I'm not averse to drinking a glass now and then. And of course you have to look out for the Polar Bears when you go picking blueberries, as it is one of its favourite snacks. You can always tell when a Polar Bear has been eating blueberries, because it is purple around the mouth. ;o) -- Marina |
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"Yowie" had some very interesting things to
say about OT - deeeeelish!: What our cloudberries? And Bilberries sound like the very cute rabbit-like marsupial of Australia, the Bilby. They sound more like hobbits to me. [gd&r] -- Seanette Blaylock "You attribute perfect rationality to the whole of humanity, which has to be one of the most misguided assumptions ever." - Alan Krueger in NANAE [make obvious correction to address to send e-mail] |
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