Berry Picking

We took an "easy" day on Sunday and went berry picking at Bumbleberry Farms & Winery. We spent several hours getting a bit carried away picking a few buckets of raspberries and saskatoon berries (which are now completely filling our freezer, but that's about all it's used for anyway!). We also tasted the fruit wines they made. They were surprisingly delicious! We ended up picking up a few bottles of dinner & dessert wines - our favourites were Bumbleberry for a nice light, dry dinner wine, and then the fortified saskatoon berry wine that was kind of reminiscent of port and had a pleasantly complex taste, and the heavenly fortified raspberry wine. I rewarded our hard work by making raspberry/saskatoon berry mini-pies (fore-ground), which were also delicious and went supremely well with a bit of the raspberry wine.

My new yogurt maker is what started the whole thing off. I've been making my own yogurt for the last few weeks. Calgary doesn't recycle plastics and yogurt was our main plastic-creating waste so we decided to start making our own. It's easy and delicious (although takes a bit of planning so I can be home/awake when it's time to transfer the yogurt to the fridge because it sits in the machine for 5-7 hours depending on the size of the batch... NOT the 10 hours indicated in manual as I found out on my first attempt where I ended up making something that looked like lumpy curdled milk). Anyway, since getting this yogurt I've been making smoothies for breakfast every morning and going through lots of berries so I thought it would be nice to go stock up and freeze my own. I think we're set for a bit now.