Blueberries, Blueberries, Blueberries!!!! RECIPES!! Canning, Waffles, Watercolor, Picking, Freezing, Smoothies, and Cobblers!!! Yeah All About Blueberries!

Hello again well it has been a month of blueberries! Seriously I felt like I was up to my ears with blueberries. My husband and boys,( and me too ) have spent a lot of July picking blueberries and giving them away too. Blueberries are sooo good for you, they provide you with vitamin C, lots and lots of Phytonutrients, manganese, fiber, antioxidants, low in fat, brain health, insulin response and heart healthy. You can read more on blueberries at the Blueberry Nutrition Site.  Also at the World's Healthiest Foods. The second site even provides great healthy recipes. These little blue wonders pack a punch of amazing benefits!!! They are sooo yummy too! Okay now I want some blueberries! LOL!
I do need breakfast now so I am going to go have some oatmeal (not instant) with a handful of blueberries. I will eat this a lot for breakfast and the Chobani  plain non-fat yogurt and add blueberries. This recipe from Chobani and steel oats is amazing too!!! YUM!

This was just three trays of blueberries that we picked, we literally had about 20 of these all together. THAT'S A LOT OF BLUEBERRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 THE COBBLER

Recipe

3 Cups of blueberries can be fresh or frozen

1 Tablespoon lemon juice

1 Tablespoon lime juice

1 teaspoon of almond extract

1 cup sifted flour

1 cup of sugar

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 egg beaten

1/2 cup of milk (you may also use buttermilk)

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

6 Tablespoons of butter melted

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees using a 9x9 pan coat the dish with butter or spray the pan with a spray such as PAM®. Place blueberries in the bottom of the dish/pan, then add the lemon juice, the lime juice and the almond extract mix together in the blueberries. Sift together dry ingredients flour, sugar, salt, then add beaten egg, now mix in the milk (buttermilk) whichever you wanted to use, then add the vanilla. I personally like the milk better myself but others have said they like the buttermilk...so its all in taste. Now pour the flour mixture on top of the blueberries and then pour the melted butter on top pop into the oven for approx. 35-40 minutes. Serve with ice cream. We eat it with vanilla ice cream and sometimes we just add the Reddi-wip® and then other times we add both!!It is a very yummy recipe and can be used for peaches (omit the lime juice only) raspberries (same as above) blackberries (same as above) cherries (same as above). I have taken this cobbler to many events and I have been told that it tastes just like their mothers and/or their grandmas...etc! It truly an easy no fail recipe. TIP: Do not use a 9x13 pan to double continue to use the 9x9 twice if you want to double recipe....it is too hard to cook in center. The sides get too brown.

 Here is another view of more blueberries at another time. Then there was one more time when they were all on the table and even more trays.....yikes!





Making Blueberry Jam

Start off with 4 cups of mashed blueberries, pour into large pot, then add  2 Tablespoons of lemon juice, then add 7 cups of sugar stirring until comes to a rolling boil then add two packages (or two pouches) of pectin this can be CERTO® , SURE-JELL PREMIUM FRUIT PECTIN, or BALL  RealFruit^® Pectin I use whatever I can find at the stores here and mostly it is the Ball brand or if I get it at Wal-Mart  I get CERTO® . I have had no issues from any of the products and I have been canning since I was 20 years old. I have all canning stuff from Ball. Once the berry and pectin come to a boil, boil for a complete one minute then turn off the burner.  Make sure to place jam in warm jars, I heat mine up in the oven on 175 degrees until they are hot. Then ladle into hot jars making sure not to drip on the side I use a funnel for this that Ball sells. Then wipe your rims of the jar (lip) making sure it is clean and dry! Now you will need to seal with new lids and rings. Then place in a water bath canner for 25 minutes. Once you remove place on a towel then once completely cooled check to see if lids sealed and if one doesn't you could place in refrigerator and use immediately.   Ball is also having a #canitforward

which I know I plan on having!!! Such a great idea not to mention spreading the art of canning!! I GREATLY appreciate the talent! I would love to share the love of canning! Go HERE if you would also like to learn about it also on the hash tag above the image is the link. I'm sooo excited about this!!

                      Here is the Ball funnel that I use to can with. This one I got a few years back.

                          Here is another funnel I use to can with I have had this one from 1990.  the plastic stick is from Ball too it is a bubble remover or air remover. They also sell them here.

The water bath canner.

                                              Here are the little gift jars I did! Too cute!!!!

                                                     My canning closet! The shelves are as long as your arm deep and the jars go all the way back.

 These are the blueberries in the freezer. I use quart freezer bags and I always use

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What you do is wash and dry your blueberries (I place them on the trays and let them dry overnight) I will even put a small fan on them to speed the drying process. Then place in baggies and freeze in the deep freezer.

I will make smoothies using yogurt (Chobani see beginning of post)  and blueberries and the Almond milk.

I use one cup of  almond milk, 1/2 cup of blueberries, and 6 oz. of Greek yogurt.

Also I will add the Jay Robb to the smoothie, yum!! Also I add the blueberries to the raw juices I make. YUM!

Not exactly the best shot but at least I took one, when I am doing this I never know what I will do with my pics just so happened I thought blueberries would make a great post!!!

Here is one and they are AMAZING YUMMY! I made them again today for Crystal and Skylar, and Jamie. Tara had to leave early. I am guessing you want my recipe for Waffles too????

WAFFLES

2 cups of cups Original Bisquick® mix

1 1/2 cups of milk (I also use buttermilk)

1 egg

2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1 cup of blueberries (if frozen you can leave frozen) they will still cook fine in the griddle.

Whenever I make this I have to double it. I add all kinds of goodies like chocolate chip, bananas, coconut...etc! YUMMY!  This is my most quick and easy version of homemade waffles!



 Cooper and Abigail picking blueberries.

Blueberries in the sun. Pic I took that evening while picking.

 Picking

Oh here is an idea too, I used the whole wheat waffles from Van's which are healthy and delicious. The syrup that is sugar-free from Smucker's  Blueberry Sugar-Free Syrup

this is a Weight Watcher's 4 PointsPlus

The blueberries are 0 (zero PointsPlus)

A dragonfly pic I took while picking blueberries





Hope you enjoyed a few days of BLUEBERRIES!!! It was  a busy two weeks. Skylar left to go to Tennessee and Dusty had his birthday party yesterday (which is a whole new post) and getting ready for that was a job.....I have also canned a many tomatoes too!
 We also made homemade blueberry ice cream yesterday! (Yep another post)
Enjoy what is left of your summer and let me know what you have been up to! I enjoy the comments and ideas you can show me. Happy Summer!

 

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Leaves of Change a Necklace using Ice Resin, Enamels, Roll Mill, and Solder.

A Soldered bezel using brass and copper. Leaves of Change I call it. The copper was sent thru the roll mill using a fossilized leaf (see background) then solder piled around the bezel and stamped into. The enameled leaves are made using Barbara Lewis technique. The beads on the wire are also the Painting With Fire Technique  see pic below. I have had a ball making these and she will be offering an online workshop a must! See her Blog. All the pics in this post were taken with the IPhone!!!

The copper disc I cut myself and formed, stamped in the copper with tiny metal stamps "of Change" You can also note the roll mill close up and the beads.

Here is the design I used and some of these beads were giving to me by my dear friend Nancy, I don't have many beads since I have really have not been beading, I have had a few classes on it and made plenty of beaded things with the kids, but note the enameled beads....love it!!! Also those walnut beads...lovely!

Just another view playing around with the IPhone the timbers are from my garden, which I use raised beds.

Photographing jewelry is something I will need to learn. Note those gorgeous Painting With Fire Beads.

In my garden, the boys spotted it and it was soooo darn cute. Dusty says "why is the tatapillar not turning into a butterfly?" Coop says "cause he has to go into a tatcoon" I love it!!! Out of the mouth of babes! IPhone!

More pics of another caterpillar on my May Peas! Yikes!

Working on another watercolor while the boys sleeping, at 6 am! I Love morning glories.

This is Alexis my oldest daughter with Coop and Dusty at the beach. Love this pic!

At the sound Dusty climbed up there himself...too cute! IPhone!

Colby at the beach they buried him in the sand (away from the water) and what fun they had. Too flippin cute!

I received these roses from my wonderful daughter Crystal who is Kentucky for Mother's Day!! Just beautiful!!! Love them! Thanks!

The boys went to Laser Tag this weekend, whew I didn't have a chance! LOL!

Halftone App gotta love it, turns the pics into comics! Love it!

One of my poppies in my garden. Gorgeous!!!

Just wanted to update the blog again. Gonna go work in the garden now and finish up the greenhouse....only have the cilantro to move out and then I will close up the greenhouse until next early early springtime. Hope everyone is doing awesome and enjoying the warmer weather, I know I have. Coop will be getting off his cast in a few more weeks and he says he wants to go to the beach!!! I told him we will! Hugs to all! Get your ART on!! Dawn Gallop

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Say It With Letter's Mosaic Seahorse And A Few Catch-Ups

Say It With Letters Seahorse using mosaic glass pieces that I cut with a wheeled glass nippers from Delphi and Weldbond glue and mosaic glass all found HERE. The grout was added after the glass pieces were down then dried wiping the extra grout off of the glass. Then I sprayed the piece with clear gloss sealer. The shells in the eye and fin are real finds from the beach. I so enjoyed making this and it is so easy and fun. You could use any of the Say It With Letters cut-outs to make mosaics with. Fun Fun Fun!!

Here you can see some of the shine from the sealer and the opalescence of the glass.

The grout was a mix of a gray and white to get the tan...IDK but it worked!!! LOL!

Here is where you can purchase one of these seahorses to make it a DIY at Say It With Letters

Here is some more things I have been working on 1x3 soldered charms or pendents. Using mixed media collage digital printouts I purchased from Etsy.

This is one of the charms I made for the Art & Soul Retreat I made 14 of them all just a little different the theme is Putting On The Ritz which was perfect! The digital ATC card and 1x1 print are from Etsy and even the bling music charm. I soldered the charms too.

Here is a melted record that me and my dear friend Nancy made together for her friends 50th birthday, I cut everything from the Silhouette Cameo and made the pom poms from yarn using my fabulous favorite pom pom makers from Clover. I have a tutorial HERE.

Ok now here is one of my favorite things to do too lol, tooooo many hobbies!! LOL! I made homemade fresh pear preserves which I made a tutorial for and hope to get it up soon. Since then I have done strawberry jam too as I do every year.

More charms I participated in the Lucky Charm 7 at Ornamentea  I received back a whole new 7 from 7 other artist from around the world, and some very famous ones too!!! Love it!!! You can see some of the post at the Ornamentea Blog where Cynthia will keep you looking and looking for hours so be prepared!! LOL! I soldered these and bought the digital cutouts from Etsy at Masterpiecedesigns and the charms from WineCharms on Etsy. Fun fun fun!!

As if you didn't know photography has been a lifetime hobby of mine....no joke I have always had a camera and sometimes you would really laugh at the ones I had but like they say the best camera is the one in your hands!!!! Sooooo true!  I took this with my IPhone which is always in my hand, lol! I do put it down to create but every since I have had it I have been fascinated with all the photography apps, cant get enough and continue to play with them always....this was taken in the regular IPhone camera and edited in Instagram with a filter. I love it not only was it on my person while in the garden (which is some of my wild flowers) I was able to capture this wonderful butterfly flying by....simply  BEAUTIFUL!!!

This is the inside of my garden shed/metal shop (if ya saw it now it is a mess) I have several jewelry projects going on right now and as the ugg I am all migrated out...lol! I finally moved the metal shop from my third floor studio which took up one small room up there now I have even more room....LOOKOUT!!!!

Dusty has been enjoying the springtime with bubbles, IDK if I enjoy them more than them. He is getting big he will be four in July. WOW!!

The bubble guns are soooo much fun, the boys will play with them for hours.

Cooper will start school this year, yep I know I can't believe it either....already!!! He had his Kindergarten preview this past month. He is excited!! He will be six in September.

It has been awhile I know but you know I just have tooooo much to do and every time I do get on the computer I either window shop or just stay on Pinterest, or start editing photos....so then it is too late to do the blog, I know my head hung low....I also have more exciting news from ArtBliss, which I will share in my next post. Another unbelievable thing has happened too..........both my boys had broken arms....yep Colten who is 10 broke his March 31 in Maryland ice skating, he just got the cast off yesterday. Cooper broke his on Friday the 13th ( I know right) of April and had surgery and three pins.....he is still in his cast. So I have been running back and forth with doctor appts....for myself and them. My stuff was just routine things...but it really consumes alot of time. Well hope everyone is doing well and ready for the summer because I am!!!!!!!!

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