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Blackberry Crisp...YUM!

7/26/2014

 


Hello,
Double Crust Marion Blackberry Crisp!

You is pretty!
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I'm no baker,
(actually I abhor baking, mainly because I'm really, really TERRIBLE at it)
but this recipe looked easy enough.
And it was!

I didn't even have to use any colorful language whatsoever.


This dessert is really more like a bar than an actual crisp by the way.

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I  had to look up what a Marion berry really was...

Well, it's a BLACKBERRY!

A blackberry that is a cross between a Chehalem blackberry and an Ollalie blackberry. It was bred and discovered, so to speak, in Oregon around 1945 by the USDA. Weird, huh!


I was actually shocked at how juicy these berries are!


Okay, so this recipe is from an awesome website called Reluctant Entertainer.
Her recipes are always so spot on, typically easy and always fresh and tasty.




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This is the brand of preserves
I used...

it's local and I found it right on the shelf in my grocery store.


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And
the ingredients don't creep me out!

I'm trying to be better at using organic or healthier options of food items, where the ingredient list
is short.





Anhoo, these are the fixins for this fine Marion Blackberry Crisp/Bar. 
Very few ingredients, and it's mainly things you already have in your pantry.
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First of all,
melt the three sticks of butter.

Yes, that is correct.
Three sticks.



Then mix the dry ingredients together, easy! Oats, flour, sugar, salt and baking soda!
Add the melted butter!
Stir!





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Now press all that goodness into the bottom of a greased pan.




DON'T STOP THERE!!!
Pour on those Marion Blackberry preserves!!





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Now
let's take a closer look at this
blackberry lusciousness!






Crumble the remaining oat mixture on top and bake for 25-30 mins.

Don't
over bake.


I think I did and that's why it was a little dry...

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Fresh out of the oven....

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Oh
these Marion berries are so delicious.


But!!!!!
You will need some ice cream with this crisp/bars. 
They may come out just a tad dry and the ice cream just sort of tied up all the flavors in a nice little sweet berry package.

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Okay, click here to go to the
Reluctant Entertainer website
where you can then print off this tasty recipe....


The ingredients are so simple:
Flour
Oatmeal
Sugar
Salt
Baking soda
Butter
Marionberry preserves


OHOHOH! I froze these...
they freeze very well by the way.




Okay, that's all the food goodness I have
for today!



We did have a rainbow the other evening,
after only a few drops of rain.

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Notice the tree in the picture below....

The reason the tree looks so weird is because the metal roof to the business pole building sheered off the left half of that tree.
The roof went sailing through the air during a freak 2012 tornado/straight line wind event, and flew right between those trees.

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Yup, imagine a huge metal roof swirling up in the air to it's final destination.
Which in our case, just happened to be Marvin Miller's bean field.
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That metal roof looked like a freaky alien spaceship hovering above that bean field for two months!
We had to wait until the beans where harvested to have the roof pulled out.





Okay,
I leave you with this gorgeous picture of open shelving in someone's kitchen.
 
I salivate over this picture.

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Crap, I forgot the source for this photo, sorry.


Believe it or not,
I used to HAVE enough sets of dishes
and serveware, I could have EASILY filled that cupboard up, plus more!!!

Oh how I loved me the dishes. Loved!





And now this is the extent of my dishes......





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Uh, yeah.

 Rivals that cupboard from up above,
dontcha think??


HA!

But it's easy to clean and that's what I like...
doing the absolute minimum of cleaning as humanely possible without triggering trichinosis or cholera or starting a new potato famine or something.



Makes ya wanna eat at my house, huh!! :):):)
Okey dokey!!
That's all I have for today!!!
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Hope you have a relaxing weekend
and
we'll talk at ya soon!













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