Blckeberry Delicious

Mia cut the following recipe out of the newspaper for me and I tried it the other night. It was delicious. The jalapeno, honey, butter will now be my standard when I make this sort of dessert. I've also included my favorite berry crumble recipe which would also be great with the butter.

Blackberry Crumble with Jalapeno & Honey Butter

Makes 4 portions

250g Blackberries (about 2 cups) 2 cups didn't look like enough so I added a small unpeeled apple.
50g White sugar (a very scant 1/4 cup)
100g Flour (a scant 1/2 cup)
170g Unsalted Butter (70g (scant 1/3 c) for crumble / 100g (between 1/3 & 1/2 C) for butter)
50g Brown sugar (a very scant 1/4 cup)
50g Rolled oats (a very scant 1/4 cup)
1 small Jalapeno pepper, deseeded and finely diced
30ml Honey (about 2 T)

Method:
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C/350°F
- In a large bowl, mix together flour & brown sugar, rub in 70g of the butter until mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs then stir in the rolled oats.
- Divide then blackberries between 4 ramekin dishes (or one large dish) and sprinkle the white sugar over top.
- Cover the berries with the crumble mixture and pat gently, not too hard!
- Place on baking sheet and bake for 25 – 30 minutes (longer if a single large one)
- Meanwhile, place the honey in a small saucepan, add the jalapeno pepper and bring to a simmer for just 2 minutes, remove from heat and allow to cool before stirring into the 100g of soft NOT MELTED butter.
- When the crumbles come out of the oven allow to cool for a few minutes and serve with the jalapeno honey butter on the side.

Or try this Crumble I think it would be even better.

Fruit and Berry crumble

2 ¼ lb fruit berries, peaches, apples whatever
1/3 C. sugar
2 T. cornstarch
2 T lemon juice

My additions
add 1/8 to ¼ C. chopped crystallized ginger

Topping
¾ C. unsalted butter (I use salted)
½ C. brown sugar (white is okay too)
1 C. flour
½ C. rolled oats (not instant oatmeal)
¼ Tsp salt
½ C. nuts/ seeds (I add more, adding peppitas, sunflower seeds, walnuts etc.

Mix fruit, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice. Put in dish you plan to bake the crumble in.

Mix topping put on top of fruit. Bake 350. For 30 – 40 minutes, or until bubbly.

November In Quadra

A great visit to Otter Creek. We had a bit of every kind of weather.
Sunshine

Evening sun on the clouds and a boat on the water.

Sun on the snowy mountains

Our street..traffic? Where?

More sunshine

Snow on American Thanksgiving Day - Canadian Thanksgiving was Oct.10

Snow and daisy

And we had rain..

Freezing temps..The Cove's edge froze..that's salt water folks!

And hail..

And an astonishing full moon!

Trips to the beach despite the cold.

Mia and her granddaughter

Pauline Falck and her handsome sons.

Kristin Davis came to visit and we loved every moment she was with us.

Beaverton Visit

We had a wonderful visit with Jackson, Jessica and Thaddeus in Beaverton. Jackson is full of personality and cute, cute, cute. He is Mr. Busy and his vocabulary grows daily. He is quickly becoming a little boy.
Always happy and laughing.

Really into puzzles.

Peek a boo with Capcup.

Mister likes to get a little attention too.

The young Lairds

Walking in the park.

Cute boy in the car

Jackson and his mommy

The big boys

Nana and Capcup

Little Cowboy...check out the gum boots..very stylish.

Bath time is fun

Stepping out in his Hawaiian outfit

Swinging

The great toilet paper caper. First you wear it.

Then you turn it into confetti.

THe Great Honolulu Photo Expo

In May 16 friends agreed to be part of the first Honolulu Photo Expo. They were given the task of photographing 8 locations. As many photos as they want, as often as they wish. Then they each chose one and had it enlarged to an 8 X 10. We gathered at the Laird's for a potluck and showing. Not everyone could attend and not every one had photos for each location. We added an 'Other' category for a few photos from people who either didn't get to the locations or just had something they wanted to share. It was a huge success and plans are a foot for another go around. Here are some photos of the photos.
Pier 38 Photos.

The Other category.

A little neighborhood near downtown we call the lost neighborhood.

Kawainui Marsh and Queen Liliuokalani Garden

The Kaiwi Coast near Sandy Beach.

Nuuanu Cemetary

Chinatown. The duplicate photo (bottom Left) is showing 2 different photo papers)

The cactus garden at KCC.

Old Friends/Familiar Faces

The Morrows were in town and we got together for lunch at Uncle's at the harbor. Seth and Sara.

The whole gang.

A familiar face from little kid times in Chinatown.

Marnie's 90th Birthday

The birthday girl wearing her lei from Carole and Wendy.

The guests. L to right back row: Jo Ann, Katharine, Sigrid, Mae, Sylvia, Lizzy Front row: Alice, Marnie, Nora, Margo, Patty

Mother and daughters.

Marnie with flowers from Linda and Larry. As of 11/10 they are still beautiful.