Blueberries, Peaches and Pie...oh

(You didn't think I'd say Oh MY did you?)
I was tempted to but that would be sort of a cliche and yesterday I read an excellent guest blog post by Jody Hedlund called Creative but not Cliched over at Not Enough Words. I recommend checking it out.

So today I thought I'd take a bit of a break from the writing blogs to talk about pie. Specifically the best blueberry pie I've ever had.

A few weeks ago, the DH and I traveled to Boston for a family reunion. We rarely get to go out just the two of us so the night before the reunion we had a lovely dinner at Longfellow's Wayside Inn. The inn has an interesting and almost symbiotic history with Longfellow that makes for interesting reading, but it was the food that I want to write about.

First, I had the most amazing salad - mixed greens with toasted pecans, dried cranberries, blue cheese crumbles, and a cranberry vinaigrette. I'm not a huge salad fan but this was amazing. Looked pretty much like this -->



I had a lobster pie for dinner and then came dessert. I'd seen an apple crumb pie on the menu and was determined to make room for it, but then the waitress mentioned their cold blueberry pie. Since it was my first day of summer vacation, there seemed something symbolic in that so I said sure, I'd try that instead of the apple.

WOW! You'd only agree with the WOW!!!!! if you absolutely love blueberries because this was the blueberriest pie I've ever had. It was a chilled pie and I haven't really figured out how it was made *kicks self for not asking* because the blueberries weren't cooked but there was some light glaze that held the whole thing together. The blueberries were the plumpest, crispest blueberries I've ever had (and I grew up picking blueberries by the bushel).
I've been trying to duplicate the pie and although I've never gotten it exactly right, I have created some pretty yummy pies. My favorites have been mixing blueberries and peaches. I simmer a cup of blueberries in water, some sugar and a little cornstarch, and when the mix thickens, I pour it over a pile of cut up but uncooked peaches and whole blueberries. Fold the fruit into the cornstarch mix, pour into a pre-baked pie shell and chill for a few hours. Delicious and since there's very little sugar, not even that unhealthy.

Here's a picture of the one I made last night. Unfortunately I didn't think to photograph it until after my daughter had attacked it.



And since being creature of habit keeps me writing - today's writing chapter is about letting go of your darlings - those words or stories that you just hate to let go of. Hmmm, if I don't talk about the chapter, can I hold on to my favorites just a little longer?

Seriously, do you have a problem with letting go of certain jokes, characters, old stories? Or do you have a favorite summer recipe to share?