forum: Food, Wine and Gardening
#1 Mon 01 Aug 11 6:04pm
Danny
- Jamie's Better Food Foundation
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- Member since Tue 06 Jul 04
Berries, Berries, Berries....
Hi everyone,
We have just posted up a few new recipes on the site and as you will see from the lovely wallpaper this month it's all about berries..... recipes for you:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/frui … pone-tarts
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/frui … de-shortbr
Simple question this week - do you like berries? How do you eat or cook with them? We used to have a mulberry tree back in Aus, I have not had a decent mulberry in years.... Mum used to make mulberry pies and mulberry jam which was ohhhhhh soooooo good!
Cheers
Danny
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#2 Mon 01 Aug 11 6:18pm
ANN

- From North Carolina
- Member since Thu 15 Jul 04
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
I adore berries. I eat them alone, in yogurt, in pies and of course jams and jellies.
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#3 Mon 01 Aug 11 6:44pm
WheelieFoodChik
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- From Rocky Mount, NC, United States
- Member since Sat 05 Jun 10
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
I love berries too! Mostly blueberries and raspberries...warming up to strawberries. I've only had blackberries once and they were like cardboard. Hopefully it was just a bad batch.
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#5 Mon 01 Aug 11 7:59pm
mummza
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- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
ooooooohhhhh Mulberry jam , I love Mulberry jam but I have not had it for years , my grandparents lived somwhere once with a large mulbury tree in the garden ( that I was nt allowed to climb ..ever ...but it did not stop me trying to climb it !!) I remember Mulberry jam.
Yes I love Berries , I get quite excited about the strawberies when they start arriving on the plants ..you cant beat a fresh picked British Strawberry.
delicious however they are eaten.
Raspberies .. oh I love raspberries , Fresh made Raspberry jam is a favorite in our house. Frozen raspberries are always in the freezer for a quick pudding .when the children were small tthey used to love raspberries that had been warmed iin a pan so they became all juicy and 'microwave meringues ' floating over the top.
They were also fasinated by helping to make the microwave meringues , seeing this litle clump of like a fondant icing texture grow into ovely crumby light meringues.
Blueberries , the ones that are sold in the shops I quite like , but I used to ick the tiny wild blueberries years ago when I could find then but never quite got enough to make much more than a blueberryand apple pie occasionally ( as most disapeared down myself and my friends as we used to pick them.... of course it was for the reasons of quality control !!)
Blackberries , Blackberry and appple jam , this was the one thing that even if it was a bit tough and rubbery ..or..too rubbery ,when my mother made it and it tasted ok
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Bramble jelly is lovely , but I have not made it for a while.
The cultivated blackberries that are in the shops as very tasty .
Goosberries are delicious , but I tink that a lot of people pick them too early nowadays whilst they are still very hard and green instead of waiting a bit till they have just a bit of 'give ' when you pinch them ....the flavour is better if they are left a little longer on the bush.
I love gooseberry fool , such a simple pudding that has gone out of fashion a bit.
Redcurrants , blackcurrents and white currants .... are there classed as berries ?
anyway I am very forn of these as well !!
I dont use elderberries much but they do make a cracking wine !
and a syrup made from elderberryjuice is lovely dribbled over icecream.
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#6 Mon 01 Aug 11 8:03pm
MsPablo
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- Member since Fri 28 Mar 08
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
I've never met a berry I didn't like. I love the desserts we had in Germany at Movenpick - pies and tarts with a mix of all the various types of berries - blueberries, blackberries, currants, raspberries, strawberries.
I sometimes make 'American' pudding which is a creamy custard made on the stovetop not in the oven, a homemade vanilla and then top it with wild blueberries and fresh raspberries. I wish I had some in front of me right now!
Danny, I am not sure if your mulberries are the same as the wild ones we used to eat as kids. These were a kind of pale rose color and were not all that flavorful or sweet, but fun to eat, juicy and interesting. I may have to google . . .
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#7 Mon 01 Aug 11 9:10pm
mummza
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- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
The wild blueberries that I used to pick from the very lowlying little bushes on the hills were very small Ms P , nothing like the larger tpe that I see in the shops.
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#8 Mon 01 Aug 11 10:25pm
Grandmadamada

- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
Danny wrote:
Hi everyone,
We have just posted up a few new recipes on the site and as you will see from the lovely wallpaper this month it's all about berries..... recipes for you:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/frui … pone-tarts
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/frui … de-shortbr
Simple question this week - do you like berries? How do you eat or cook with them? We used to have a mulberry tree back in Aus, I have not had a decent mulberry in years.... Mum used to make mulberry pies and mulberry jam which was ohhhhhh soooooo good!
Cheers
Danny
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..................................We used to have a mulberry tree back in Aus, I have not had a decent mulberry in years.... Mum used to make mulberry pies and mulberry jam which was ohhhhhh soooooo good!"
this is a beautiful starting for a film, I can see Danny as a child and taste the sweetness of the mulberries on the tree and the smell of those too ripe fallen on the grass, making a sort of must
.........an old farmer told me some days ago that in past times there was not a single mulberry on the ground, children ate them short before they were ripe on the branches
I like this thread full of life
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#9 Mon 01 Aug 11 10:42pm
mummza
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- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
I know that once I got in trouble from my for staining my dress with the Mulberry juice from the fruits on the tree Grandmadamada so I guess you are right there, if I was not allowed to climb the tree ( unless of couse noone could see me !) then I must have eaten the fruits from the lower branches or from the ground as they fell from the tree ... so long ago I cant remember , all I remember is that it was a big house hat seemed dark inside and there was this magical tree that seemed to fill the garden to me . It was the only time as a child that I ever saw a Mulberry tree as they are not common in the UK.
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#10 Tue 02 Aug 11 1:53am
mommyof2nc
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- From North Carolina, USA
- Member since Thu 18 Mar 10
Re: Berries, Berries, Berries....
I love any kind of berry. I mostly just eat them plain or in fruit salad but also make jam with them. Sometimes, I eat them with yogurt, too.
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