Category Archives: blueberry

blueberry oatmeal bars (a recipe)

Posted on December 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

I’ve been watching a lot of the Food Network shows lately — I think Ina and Giada are my new best friends. I saw Giada make some apricot oat bars one morning and decided to try making a batch using things I had on hand, so here’s my rendition with blueberry jam instead of apricots. It’s a really simple recipe and I think it would work well with any fruit jam you have in stock. The key thing is to use old fashioned oats and not the instant stuff; she mentioned on the TV show that the instant stuff won’t hold it’s shape once it’s baked.

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Tagged food network, giada de laurentis recipe, oatmeal

brunch at west side lounge (cambridge)

Posted on October 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

Brunch was totally unintended, really. We originally left the house in hopes of checking out the new Hi-Rise Bakery location on Mass Ave. but the place was packed and there were no tables or chairs available. And believe me, when you’re as pregnant as I am, those are two very important things to have when going out. So we decided to pop over across the street to one of our favorite Cambridge hang outs, West Side Lounge, to see if they were open and to see what they had on their menu.

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sportello (boston)

Posted on August 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

There are very few things that are better than the combination of beautiful summer weather (think 82 degrees), delicious food, and good company. I was lucky to have all three today in a lunch outing to Sportello with three lovely coworkers on the last day of Boston’s restaurant week. One of them, Tara, has a husband (Greg) who just recently got a job there so it was a great reason to escape the office to dine at one of my favorite restaurants.

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Posted in barbara lynch, blueberry, Boston, cheesecake, food, fort point, restaurant, restaurant week, salmon

Tagged ricotta, veal, veal tongue

blueberry muffins (a recipe)

Posted on January 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

Luckily, one fruit (and a berry nonetheless!) that I can eat are blueberries. These are actually kind of sticky muffins and that’s because I used sweetened condensed milk in this recipe. So if you like rich and sweet muffins, definitely give this recipe a try!

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i made a blueberry cheesecake

Posted on August 7, 2010 | 1 Comment

I don’t know why but I had been craving cheesecake for a little while. It’s not something we have often during the year, and I think I’ve only made 3 or 4 times in my life. There’s something a little daunting about it to me for some reason. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m afraid it will crack down the middle while it cooks. Or if it’s because you usually have to use a spring form pan to make it, and I have this nightmarish scene in my head of going to pick up the pan and the bottom completely falling out. But blueberries were on sale at the store (buy one get one free) so I decided to try my hand at making one last weekend.