Picking Blueberries and Faux Blueberry Crisp

Faux Blueberry Crisp

Everyone seems to be talking about picking blueberries these days, so last night I decided to go out and pick some.

So I got in the car, drove to Aldi and "picked" 4 pints at $1.50 per pint. Sure I wish they were freshly picked by me (or freshly picked for me I should say)...but I'll take my blueberry fix however I can.

In our family, it's just my daughter and I that like blueberries. Very strange. I mean how could you NOT like blueberries. They are powder blue, sweet and plump.

When I got home I put away the groceries - and then took a few items back out of the fridge. I could not wait another minute to sample the blueberries.

In the fridge was about 1/2 a cup of milk soaked oatmeal (that I usually have with raspberries in the morning). To that I added some vanilla ice-cream and a healthy sprinkling of blueberries.

I called this little concoction "Faux Blueberry Crisp". It wasn't crisp, and it wasn't super sweet like a real blueberry dessert - but it was DELICIOUS! Much more healthy than the typical blueberry crisp and it only took a few minutes to combine.

But I must admit - if I had right now, a dish of real blueberry crisp and a dish of my faux blueberry crisp, I'd be grabbing for the real stuff.

Below is a picture of my girl and the cup of blueberries she picked last summer, out at the lake where I spent my summers as a child. She was so excited to be picking blueberries that she could eat!

Fake Apple Pie

Here is a cheater apple pie - works especially well if you have some scraps of pie dough laying around (I think this dough was left over from a pot pie I made).

Make up a batch of chunky applesauce (or pull some out of the fridge and warm it up)...serve with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and cinnamon/sugar "cookies" made from pie dough.

Less dough means less calories.

Not sure it was as good as my faux blueberry crisp - but beggars can't be choosers.