Posts tagged ‘blueberry’

November 16th, 2012

Duck Overload

by Tiff

My home has had a duck overload for the past two days.  Luckily, I think the frenzy has passed.  This all started when my grandfather and dad both decided to bring Kevin duck hunting with them this year.

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When you hunt ducks, you bring home ducks.  This means, your wife cooks ducks.

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ducksI have to admit, even with the 8-hour brine and the delicious blueberry sauce, they were a bit too gamey.  I think I need to use a slower cooking method next time, such as braising or just throwing the suckers in a crock pot.  Gamey or not, Leia still wanted a piece!

Blueberry Sauce

  • On medium-high in a non-stick pan, cook 1 tsp white sugar.  Continually stir.  Eventually, the sugar will start to caramelize.
  • Stir in 1 tsp apple cider vinegar.  Continue stirring while you stir in a couple shakes of cinnamon and a few shakes of dried ginger.
  • This might steam up quite a bit, so go ahead and add in about 1.5 cups of fresh blueberries.  Continue cooking and stirring.  Eventually the berries will begin to break down, so go ahead and reduce the heat to medium.
  • Add in one last tsp apple cider vinegar and stir until you hit the desired consistency.

I know what you’re thinking.  It sounds odd that a chick who just finished a veg pledge is cool with her hubby shooting things for fun, BUT you don’t get much more “free range” than that…. so long as he’s a good shot.

We also just got our custom framing finished up last night.  Yup… more ducks.  Ugh!  See what I mean about overload?  At least the artist painted the spot my fellas actually went hunting, so I suppose that’s acceptable.

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K… I’m off to the gym.  Happy Friday!

  • Are you on an overload of something at the moment?
  • Ever eaten game meat?

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July 3rd, 2012

Blueberry Lemon Muffins

by Tiff

What’s a girl to do when she cannot decide between two recipes?  Two become one, of course!  (Did that remind anyone else of that Spice Girl song?  When two become oooooone…)  I was in the mood for lemon goodies, but I wanted to make something with blueberries.  When I saw that the grocery store had Chobani yogurt on sale last week, I knew just what to make.

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Sometimes things just work together, and in this case, blueberry + lemon = win.

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Lemon Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients:

  • 1 3/4 cups flour (I used whole wheat flour, but any light/all-purpose four should be okay.)
  • 1/2 cup sugar (aka: white devil)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 TBS lemon zest
  • 1 chia egg (1 TBS chia + 2 TBS water)
  • 1 container Chobani lemon yogurt (or other)
  • 1/2 cup milk (I used skim, but I would have preferred unsweetened almond.)
  • 2.5 TBS oil (I used olive, but I bet coconut would work well too.)
  • 3 TBS unsweetened applesauce
  • 1 TBS lemon juice

Directions:

  1. In a medium bowl, mix your chia egg and let it get all gummy while you prep the other ingredients.  Preheat oven to 375 F.
  2. In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients, through salt. Whisk.  Add lemon zest and briefly whisk again.
  3. In the chia egg bowl, add the yogurt, milk, oil, applesauce, and lemon juice.
  4. Stir wet into dry ingredients, but do not over-mix.  Fold in 3/4 cup blueberries. Fill greased muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 375 degrees F for 22-26 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Leave muffins in the pan for 5-10 minutes before cooling on rack or plate.

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It’s difficult to get a good picture in this house, especially if you want decent morning lighting.  Between a husband who doesn’t understand, “let it cool” and cats who think they run the show, I was lucky to get one decent picture.

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Enjoy the muffins!  If you make them, please let me know what you think.

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