This has been a busy week with work and also spending good time with Daryl's parents before they head back to the states in a few days, so i'm a little delayed in posting this. We had a great weekend, finishing our visit with our good friend Philip and then having a family day in the park on Sunday.
Setting out on our adventure, picnic packed in the back pack, sun is shinning... it's going to be a good day.
We return to our fort that Dad has been building only to find that Alas! it needs repair! Daryl spends the next hour putting it up again while the girls and i hunt for dear, make mud ... i mean "chocolate" bread pudding and clear smooth paths outside our house for natania to ride her bike.
Daryl is finally done with the house and can help us cook the meat over the fire.
With plenty of berries and scratches on our arms, we head home to put together our pie! I used the recipe for the blackberry pie filling from Epicurious here (we did a crumb topping)...it was wonderful. Even though i didn't have many tools that might seem important for making pie (rolling pin, pie dish, etc) with a little creativity and hands on approach it worked out just fine. We liked it so much that the next day, Daryl and the girls went back and picked enough berries to make two more pies!
One reason I am happy to be in England this summer: three words- Fresh blackberry pie.
3 comments:
The fort is AWESOME. Way to go Daryl! The pie is AWESOME. Way to go Becky! (I need baking lessons when you get back) And the girls are adorable :)
So jealous! You know how the Wrights feel about blackberry pie!!!
honestly, we are converted to full on black berry pie lovers. today i made my 3rd one for the week! (Yikes!) not to mention we also had blackberry crisp the other night because i was to lazy to make pie crust!
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