Great for picking!

I'm having a great year too. Love it!

Yummmm

Someone posted this here, and the recipe sounds delicious!

Blueberry Crisp
  4 cups fresh blueberries
 1 cup all-purpose flour
 3/4 cup white sugar
 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
 1/2 cup mayonnaise
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Place the blueberries into an 8 inch square baking dish. In a medium
bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, and cinnamon. Stir in the
mayonnaise until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over the
top of the berries.
3. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, until the top is
lightly browned.

Last Saturday I went to Klassens and picked a bucket of blueberries which probably weighed over 8 pounds because I paid $19.75 for the bucket. That was just from 1 side of 2 bushes! The bushes were over 5 feet high this year and the berries huge and very sweet. I measure them 4 cups for each bag that I freeze. I kept one bag out for eating and gave one bag away and the rest I froze. I want to go out picking again.

While I was picking them I was telling my friend about the banana bread I made last week and added fresh blueberries to the mix before I baked it. The banana bread was wonderful with the blueberries. A man the next aisle over heard me talking about the banana bread and said that it sounded really good and asked if he could have the recipe. I just made my everyday banana bread and thought I had the extra berries why not toss them in.

Yesterday for dinner I made blueberry pancakes from scratch and they didn't even need syrup on them. I love them cold better with a bit of butter or margarine. I think I had more blueberries than I did pancake batter. LOL

I am thinking I want to plant a couple of blueberry bushes so I can have my own.

Anne

Yum yum! I do eat berries too, not just flowers. :)

But, ours here in Oklahoma are long gone.

Moni

Yummy! I buy them and freeze them for adding to my cereal during the winter months. Of course, I eat them year-round.

We have a couple of blueberry bushes behind our home and it had quite a few berries this year. Last year was the huge bumper crop though. I froze nearly 50 pounds of those beauties. We only got about 30 pounds this year. But that's okay. I have a freezer chuck full of them.

Helen

Oh my gosh, I'm swooning. I love blueberries more than just about anything. Are those your bushes?

DH & I were just talking about this yesterday. Wondering if the old blueberry bog is still there near we used to live. We had to walk down the RR tracks to get to it as it was way back in some dense woods. Walking on the bog was real strange, like walking on an iner-spring mattress, and bears were known to frequent the area, so we kept an eye out for those citters, but, boy did we ever get blue berries! many and big, big ones. Yup. Now days I buy them up when ever I see frozen ones on sale as we have blueberry pancakes a couple times a week, as we are having this morning. Dottie

Must have been a bumper crop in many places. Wet spring? I bought pints for 77 cents each at our local Dominick's (Safeway chain). Some were from NJ; some from MI and WI. Last year they were $1.50 at the height of the season. I, too, freeze 'em for winter use. (Don't wash them until you use them.)

OTOH, why are prices so high on green beans this summer?

Those are BEAUTIFUL! I love blueberries and they are soooo good for you (well, probabably not as healthy in a muffin or cobbler!) I like to keep them in the freezer and just get a handful out and snack on them. Little frozen yummies. Wish I was there to help you "tickle" those berries off the bush. Mmmmmmmm.