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  • Hot Buttered Blackberries with Buttermilk French Toast
  • Blackberry, Creme Fraiche and Brown Sugar Ice Cream
  • Blackberry & Chevre Salad with Crispy Pancetta
  • Blackberry Molasses Cake
  • Very Berry Buttermilk & Brown Sugar Cake

  • The Blackberry October 10th 2007

    Greetings!

    The Blackberry is the Ava Gardner of berries.

    Lush. Dark. Tart.

    Single-handedly able to incriminate a white shirt in a way that lipstick can only dream of.

    The pinnacle of Summer's bounty.

    The summit of seduction.



    Hot Buttered Blackberries with Buttermilk French Toast
    start the day with a little sin

    One skillet full of bursting, caramelising blackberries.

    Another sizzling with fat, eggy slices of brioche.

    Buttery. Syrupy. Stacked & Sticky

    Marie Antoinette had it right; 'Let them eat Brioche!'

    I quite lose my head over it all.

    click here for the recipe

    Blackberry, Creme Fraiche and Brown Sugar Ice Cream
    take a lick!

    Remember those sweet, lazy Summer afternoons where you would swathe a strawberry through a tub of sour cream and then dip it into some brown sugar?

    It's innocent and lovely, like Maria & the Von Trapp kids on a picnic.

    Now imagine 'The Sound of Music' with Bettie Page playing the governess! Ditch the strawberries for blackberries.

    Try bursting the blackberries in a pan of hot sugar, strain the juice, add some creme fraiche and eggs. Let it cook 'til it thickens enough to coat the back of a wooden paddle.

    Toss it in an ice cream maker and just wait and see. The smear n' lick naughtiness will tumble out of your ice-cream maker and do the walk of shame to the freezer.

    click here for the recipe

    Blackberry & Chevre Salad with Crispy Pancetta
    and a truly naughty vinaigrette!

    There was a bar behind the H�tel de Ville in Paris where we would gather to drink red wine and devour a salad of sweet mache, tangy chevre and hot, plump little lardons of bacon.

    Whenever I use those three ingredients, I am back sitting by the Seine and listening to Edith Piaf.

    This tangy blackberry vinaigrette is a perfect addition to these sensational ingredients.

    click here for the recipe

    Blackberry Molasses Cake
    it's a Rizzo moment

    Remember when Rizzo breaks your heart singing, 'There are Worse Things I Can Do'?

    The high school tramp shows her redemptive side.

    That's this cake.

    Flirty blackberries and blushing peaches embrace the wholesome, nostalgic flavours of Fall.

    click here for the recipe

    Very Berry Buttermilk & Brown Sugar Cake
    under a cloak of cream cheese frosting

    Ava Gardner playing peek-a-boo under Veronica Lake's hairdo.

    Tangy, dark interior. Soft blonde exterior.

    A cake that wants to cave under pressure.

    To yield.

    To offer no resistance.

    What man can resist?

    click here for the recipe
    Blackberry Nip
    When I was 8, my Aunty Marge made a trifle with Blackberry Nip.

    I ate four helpings.

    My love of this berry was born.

    In jams, cakes, tarts, puddings...even margaritas.

    Or just freshly picked; staining fingers, lips and tongue.

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    Cheers, Mannix

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