~Blueberries~

I should've taken some pictures of the beautiful blueberries, but I just finished putting the rest of the 40 lbs of them in the freezer. Next week I'm hoping to get a second batch. Our family likes to eat them right from the freezer, in desserts, and on cereal throughout the winter. Blueberries are super-easy to preserve, and very healthy---my kind of deal. Well, I'm kinda chuckling at writing a post about blueberries, but I thought there should be some preface to the recipe I'm about to post. I just took this loaf out of the oven and it's the 1st time I've made this bread. It comes from Williams Sonoma's Bread Book. It's definitely worth sharing. Madeline also has a taste for zuchinni bread too, but I need to wait till my zuch's are ready. Let me waddle into the kitchen and go get the recipe...Here it goes:

Sour Cream-Blueberry Bread

2 med-ripe bananas
2 cups flour (I used freshly milled 7 grain flour)
3/4 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cups chopped pecans
2 lg. eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 heaping cup of blueberries, fresh or frozen

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan.
Mash bananas well w/ a fork and set aside.
Stir together flour, sugar soda, salt, cinnamon, and nuts. In another bowl, wisk together eggs, sour cream, vanilla, butter and bananas. Stir wet and dry ingredients until moist. Carefully fold in blueberries. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 50-60 minutes. Let cool in pan on a rack for 30 minutes. Turn the loaf out onto the rack and cool completely.

Then enjoy w/ a tall glass of milk.

~Meg~

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I'm reading through the book of Joshua. It seems I get stuck reading through the Gospels and when I get finished w/ those, I head to Proverbs, doing my one a day for the whole month just because I can't think of where else to go. So, my sister, totally relating, said, "How 'bout the book of Joshua?" Yeah, good idea!! I just finished the part about Jericho falling down and Rahab and her family being saved from the destruction. I tend to forget to look at the whole of Scripture. The Bible is relevant from beginning to end, Old and New Testament. I'm ready to read about the defeat at Ai and Achan's sin.
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With my present state of uncomfortable largeness and preoccupation w/ the events soon to happen, I've also been encouraged by 2 verses in particular this week:

"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient unto today is the evil thereof." Matthew 6:34

"And He said unto me, 'My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me....for when I am weak, then am I strong."
2 Corinthians 12:9