Last week the kids and I picked a lot more strawberries for the freezer and some raspberries for jam. (Our kids love strawberry banana smoothies... 1 cup frozen strawberries, 1 banana, some almond milk and a big scoop of honey in the blender. Jude thinks it's ice cream because he can eat it with a spoon. So I tried to pick a lot more strawberries this year.) We used the raspberries to make 15 jars of freezer jam. If I have the energy, I'd love to get out there and pick some more raspberries this week to make more jam. (I calculated it out, and the freezer jam comes to $1 a jar vs. the $3.50 a jar I spend on the same size at the store.)
If you follow my photography blog (www.bethanyfphotography.blogspot.com) you may have read that Josh and I are expecting baby #3 in January! We are so excited! Well, today I had a serious craving for steak, asparagus and potatoes! Thankfully I needed to go to the grocery store today, so I picked up some potatoes and another basil plant. Josh bbq'ed the steak for us that I thawed from our freezer (just oiled, with salt and pepper) and I baked the asparagus (drizzled with oil and salt) and then I followed a new red mashed potato recipe that was amazing! Here's that recipe: click here I used goat cheese instead of Parmesan, added fresh basil, used rice milk instead of regular milk, and Earth Balance butter instead of real butter, due to Josh and Jude's milk allergies. It was the perfect summer evening dinner and met my pregnancy craving! :)
I also picked up some fresh peaches at the store to make peach crisp for dessert. A week or two ago we tried a new "gluten-free peach crisp" recipe that unfortunately turned out terrible. :( It was soupy and oily and just not right. Josh is a firm believer in taking already great recipes and tweaking them to make a gluten-free version. He's pretty great at baking, so I always trust his gut and just let him figure out the new recipe for us. Well, he hardly had to do any tweaking to this recipe and it's wonderful! We've made strawberry, peach and blueberry crisp since he found and tweaked this recipe in the past 2 weeks. Here's the recipe he started with: click here
This is Josh's version of the ingredient list (which is hardly altered), and just follow the recipe exactly the same to have a gluten-free, dairy-free crisp:
3 cups sliced fresh, frozen, or canned (drained) peaches
½ cup brown sugar, packed
½ cup oat flour (put 1/2 cup oats in the food processor or blender until it's flour)
½ cup oats
1½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ cup Earth Balance butter
Forgive my lack of "dolling up my photos". I know I could make this look more appealing, but I just put it on the kitchen table and snapped a shot. :)
Also, I didn't want to wait to eat my crisp, so rather than letting it cool and soak up the juices, I just served mine up! :)
I hope you're enjoying all the fruits of this season! I love this time of year!
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