i made a pie with bláber

bláber & krækiber

here it is, the pie-tart that i made from wild blueberries picked on the hills near reykjavik (on the way to seltun geothermal patch). I was airbnb-ing at Konni's place in sept last year.

• butter & a cup of flour & dash of water to make pastry (i just guessed the quantities), crumbed together by hand
• rolled with a bottle and pressed into a flan tin
• blind baked 'til light golden on edges
• meanwhile, cooked some jonagold apples with some cinnamon
• lightly cooked half kilo blueberries with 2 teasp brown sugar

then put it all together, sprinkled a few fresh berries on top and cooked it some more 'til pastry browned nicely on the edges

it tasted FANTASTIC with some cream dribbled over. sweet & tart and really fruity. seconds all around and it was all gone!

i spent a couple of hours picking blueberries (bláber) and also the very abundant crow berries (krækiber).  sadly, the crow berries don't taste of anything very much but there are heaps of them every where. the blueberries are a little more tart than our cultivated ones, as you would expect, but nothing beats rambling around picking and eating them wherever you are in the country side.......

This was my main blue berry picking patch. A lovely sunny day to lie down in the heather and watch the clouds and the cars of tourists stop by the lakeside. No one else wandered up the hill at all, which was why there were so many berries to pick even though this place is only 10 mins from the main road on a popular tourist trail.

the blueberries went into the pie, (or directly into my mouth) and the crow berries were used for a dyeing experiment. This will be my next post, all about eco dying with the black crow berries in Konni's kithchen.......(he was away for this experiment, so was not alarmed!)