G and I brought my 14 year old brother (who is making his first appearance on this blog- I bet none of you knew I even had a brother!) berry picking recently. He’s getting so tall.
(it rained, hence the flat, disheveled hair. Mine, not his.)
We made pie, but as you can tell from the above baskets, one pie was not going to take all those berries. So I spent a full Sunday morning turning this:
into this: 
into this: (there were many jars, actually. But I figured a photo of one would be plenty)
In other culinary adventures, I also tried out the very intriguing Root Beer Bundt Cake recipe from Baked. I even tracked down root beer schnapps for the added root beer taste, but i have to say… I’m not sure what I think. I love root beer, but in cake form, it just tasted kind of odd to me. And the chocolate was pretty strong, so if no one told you it was a root beer cake, you’d just be trying to figure out what that odd taste was. Having said that, this recipe produces a damn fine looking cake, no?
I would make this again, but I think I’d substitute the root beer schnapps for cointreau. Orange and chocolate, there’s a flavour combo my taste buds can wrap themselves around.
(nom nom nom)
