full bellies | warm welcomes
Ok lovelies, its time for me to share a secret with you.
I have the easiest, fastest, most delicious pizza dough recipe and I’ve been keeping it from you. I know. It’s terrible and mean and horrible that I haven’t already shared this because it’s so darn amazing. And to top it off, I made pizza this weekend with fresh chantrelle mushrooms, bacon, ricotta cheese and arugula. Do you hate me?
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But then, last week, that all changed. Our new, wonderful forager friend brought me two quarts of mulberries and a quart of dewberries and I basically died and went to berry heaven. I had SO many ideas for using these tart, sweet, perfect little treasures and not enough time to make them. You’ve hopefully already seen (and tried!) the mulberry scones recipe, and then that very same night, my daddy requested a cobbler. That seemed the PERFECT way to use the berries but not overwhelm their natural perfection… so he got his wish. Each of us had a personal sized one piping hot after supper, with OF COURSE, homemade vanilla ice cream.
Don’t have your own forager friend or a mulberry tree in your backyard? No worries. A combo of fresh or frozen blueberries and raspberries will do the trick. Your tummy will thank you.
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We got out in the dirt this weekend and planted our vegetable garden… the weather was dreamy and it felt so productive to get my sweet little seedlings in the ground.
We’ll have about every color cherry tomato, plus some big ole red Big Boys, and some okra and summer squashes. It’s going to be wonderful IF we can keep the silly deer and other fauna out of them. Gardeners out there, any ideas or tried & true ways for how to keep my little vegetable babies safe?
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