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Yeah we had those by our family cabin in th Northern Califonia Sierras. Those thorns are merciless. My grandmother would always rope us into picking blackberries. On more than one occasion we had black bears picking them with us. Just as happy as they could be picking and eating berries. Totally ignoring us.
Fond memories of picking blackberries along the tracks West of Houston.
I think you'd need to put on full MC leathers to tangle with those left-coast bushes.
Dang, would be awesome to make some blackberry mead out of that. :)
Mmmmmmmm, blackberries. We ate a ton of those in Oregon, I kind of miss them. Those and golden Chantrelle's. Never figured out a recipe to combine them but I bet it would be good.......can't beat free food.
^^ Had to look up chanterelle to see what that was. Maybe they'd go together in some sort of salad.
Chanterelles go great in a risotto with Parmesan cheese. Made this quite a few times, but you're a slave to the kitchen while making it.
Yeah we ate them with pasta a lot...sautee the mushrooms up with some butter. delicious. Weird thing is I remember the ones we picked out there tasting way better then the ones they sell at Costco (I bought a pack remembering how good they were). Probably cuz they were free LOL
Wife was trimming some of the "tentacles" from the blackberry bushes. I was following behind her picking the early crop. That's a 2 quart colander after about 20 mins work. Some are still pretty tart, most are fantastic. I forgot how tasty fresh-picked blackberries are.
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Like the taste...don't care for all the seeds.
Dang, those things are big!