I am looking forward to summer when during that time of the year, we enjoy many gardens finds.  Black raspberries are even a sweeter find, the bushes are found in the woods behind our house. We enjoy a delicious black raspberry pie.





Black Raspberries are great fresh or frozen.  We make pies, add to fruit desserts, and make jam. My grandmother loved to make black raspberry jam, I will have to share that recipe with you soon.




Black Raspberry bushes are beautiful to look at, but when you are really up close and personal, it is best to wear protective clothing.  I suggest long sleeve shirts and jeans and boots.  It may be warm when it's time to pick the berries, but these bushes have small thorns you need to protect yourself from. 

BLACK RASPBERRY PIE

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Ingredients

4-5  cups of raspberries
⅔ cup sugar
4 tablespoons corn starch
2 tablespoons sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Prepare an Anchor Hocking Glass Pie Plate and spray with vegetable oil.
Transfer dough to pie plate, trim even with the edge
Mix berries, sugar, and corn starch.
Add to the bottom crust and spread out.
Add top crust and cut slits.
Sprinkle sugar on the top crust.
 Place the pie in a 425 degree oven, and bake for 10 minutes, then lower heat to 350 degrees and bake for 30-40 minutes.

Tips

Watch the time of oven carefully, ovens vary.
You can try recipes with different berries.

This Apple Cake is a moist, delicious cake that is perfect dressed up with caramel and ice cream, or eaten alone.  Perfectly normal for breakfast, as well.






The apples in this cake bake down so well in this recipe. Everything in this cake is moist and flavorful!  The colors are beautiful, and so easy to make! 



This cake is even better when paired with vanilla ice cream! 

1. Mix together the oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
2. Add flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.
3. Add 3 cups chopped and peeled apples.
4. Add nuts (optional)
5. Spread in a greased 9x13 pan.
6. Bake 325 degrees, 25 minutes.

How did you spend your snow day? 





We made cupcakes, and they didn't last long!


The boys played outside while helping dad make chocolate ice cream!

Have you tried their milk? It is heavenly! Chocolate is my favorite!  So delicious. It is totally worth it.Vanilla is good, but I have always preferred chocolate milk. Let's take a look at the nutritional values of both fairlife and Dean's milk. 



Both servings shown are a cup.  Protein in fairlife is 13g, 8g for Deans. Sodium and carbs are the same.  So if you want to increase your proteins in your diet, and decrease sugars, fairlife might be something  you want to try.   I like the idea of fairlife milk because this milk is being "made" a few miles from my house.  It's  not hard to find in stores around here.

Now, let's head to the store. Let's talk about price.  It's our job as moms to be price conscious when we are figuring out our monthly budget.  What is more valuable? Better price or healthier?