Is this dessert or modern art? Lucky you, the answer is BOTH!
Is it blueberry season where you are? Yes? Then run, do not walk, to the nearest farmers market or U-Pick farm and get yourself a big batch of luscious local berries. Eat a bunch of ‘em on the way home and use the rest to make this tasty/satisfying summer dessert.
I made these Blueberry Crumb Bars, using the excellent recipe from Simply Recipes, last month with grocery store berries and they were still knock-your-socks-off delicious. (No offense to the chain supermarkets, but we all know local is best when it comes to produce.)
I made these Blueberry Crumb Bars, using the excellent recipe from Simply Recipes, last month with grocery store berries and they were still knock-your-socks-off delicious. (No offense to the chain supermarkets, but we all know local is best when it comes to produce.)
Let's get another view of that beautiful berry concoction.
These bars offer three tiers of flavor. 1) A simple, tasty shortbread base; 2) An avalanche of blueberries in the middle and not much more; and 3) More of the base used as a crumbly topping. I added a little freshly grated nutmeg to the blueberries but otherwise stuck to the recipe as written.
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The hardest part is waiting until it is all the way cool and set enough to be cut into individual portions.
Blueberry Crumb Bars are perfect as dessert after dinner, as an afternoon snack, or even with your morning cup of coffee. Hey, it's fruit, pretty healthy, right?!
Find the recipe from Simply Recipes here.
Our pandemic song of the day plays off the main ingredient for the bars. Ben David offers a quiet, contemplative lament against war and human strife. Parallels may be drawn to the present situation, if you ask me.
The jazz playlist to accompany dinner/dessert brings it all back home which, coincidentally, is the name of my favorite track on the modern jazz group GoGo Penguin’s 2014 album v2.0. Hope you like it!
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