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Blueberry Pie

Vibrant and juicy, this is the best blueberry pie recipe made from scratch! It is everything you want in a blueberry pie.

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A slice of blueberry pie on a handmade ceramic plate, with the remaining pie in the background.

I get asked often what my favorite thing is to bake. And though I love cookies, cakes and cobblers, PIE is often the answer I give. I love to make pies, whether it’s a Mexican chocolate pecan pie, a handheld fried apple pie, or a rhubarb berry slab pie that is designed to feed a crowd. And though I like my fancy pants pies with woven crusts and decorative like my popular grape and blueberry pie, as well a buttery crumb topped pie like my summer fruit pie, there is something charmingly simple about a straightforward double crust pie like this blueberry pie. In fact, it’s one of my absolute favorite pies to make and eat! With minimal spices and a basic double crust, this easy, juicy and vibrant blueberry pie is everything you want in a fruit pie.

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Fig Rosemary Focaccia with Honey Lemon Glaze [Sponsored Post]

This fig rosemary focaccia with honey glaze walks the line between savory and sweet, making it great for dessert or perfect to serve with coffee or tea!

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Fig rosemary focaccia cut up on a marble surface next to a cut fit and a knife.

This post was sponsored by California Grown. I was compensated for this post and developing this recipe. However, all opinions below are my own.

San Francisco weather is different than the rest of the country as we rarely get super cold or super hot. For me, the changing of the seasons usually is marked more by what produce I can get at the grocery store and the farmers market. California, as most folks know, is an ideal climate for growing fruit and vegetables. It grows a third of the vegetables for the entire nation, and two thirds of the fruits and nuts for the US! Local berries and stone fruit at the store means its summertime here in SF. Citrus means wintertime. But as the days go by and figs start to appear, I know late summer and early fall is starting to creep up.

I absolutely adore adding dried figs to some of my baked goods like my fig and hazelnut scone and apple and fig cobbler. When California Grown reached out to me about partnering together to make a recipe featuring figs, I knew I wanted to try something different! This fresh California fig focaccia with honey and rosemary walks that line of crunchy and soft, as well as sweet and savory.

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Soft Sourdough Pretzels

These super easy-to-make soft sourdough pretzels can be made with active sourdough starter only, with sourdough discard and/or some active dry yeast!

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Sourdough pretzels on a plate surrounded by mustards for dipping.

I’m not one of those folks that will talk incessantly about my sourdough starter. I haven’t named it a cute punny name like “Eww, Doughvid” or “Breadly Cooper”. But like most folks with a starter, I love the ritual of feeding it on a regular basis and watching it rhythmically rise and fall throughout the day. One of the first things I learned to make with it was these easy soft sourdough pretzels! They’re an adaptation from homemade rye soft pretzels, similar to my soft beer pretzel twists and pretzel buns but they use the sourdough starter instead of active dry yeast. If you’re looking for a super easy sourdough recipe to dip your toe into the world of sourdough baking, this is the one!

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Strawberry Oatmeal Bars

These easy-to-make strawberry oatmeal bars have minimal sugar to let the crisp oats topping and bright berry flavor shine through.

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Due to a project I was working on for a client, I found myself with an over-abundance of strawberries. Which is saying something, since I LOVE strawberries. But strawberries are fragile fruit, going bad quickly. And though I made some strawberry rhubarb syrup, a strawberry rhubarb galette, strawberry lemon shortcake and ended up freezing three packed gallon bags, I still found a pound of strawberries that need to be used up quickly. Thankfully whipping up these easy strawberry oatmeal bars ended up being one of my new favorite snacks! Easy to make, they’re the sort of treat I can grab when I’m feeling snacky and not feel too guilty about eating.

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Apricot Yeast Bread with Dried Blueberries

This tart and slightly sweet fresh apricot yeast bread made with dried blueberries, is perfect for an afternoon coffee or tea break.

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A loaf of braided apricot yeast bread with dried blueberries on a marble surface with a couple of apricots next to it.

I’m known for my impulsive grocery store buys and it only comes becomes more impulsive as summer fruit starts to appear at the stores. Blueberries and apricots are the first things I start to buy when they appear, and all of sudden I have too much fruit and not enough time to eat it all before it goes bad. This is when I start baking up my apricot blueberry coffee cake, apricot, cherry and plum pie or my blueberry Swedish cake. But lately I’ve been diving deep into bread baking and I knew I wanted to make some sort of yeasted bread with the apricots. A simple modified brioche bread and I have this braided apricot yeast bread with dried blueberries.

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Strawberry Rhubarb Syrup (with an optional touch of lime and ginger)

This strawberry rhubarb syrup uses an optional touch of lime and ginger for extra complexity that will make sodas and cocktails taste like Springtime!

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a cup of strawberry rhubarb soda made with homemade syrup surrounded by strawberries, rhubarbs, ginger and lime.

I have a habit of buying rhubarb whenever I see it at the store. LIKE EVERY TIME. It’s a slightly obsession but that also means I have a LOT of rhubarb. Usually that’s not a huge issue. I bake my strawberry rhubarb galette or my strawberry rhubarb buckle. Or I make a big rhubarb berry slab pie for a crowd. But sometimes I buy rhubarb without realizing I already have a bunch in my refrigerator. And I can’t use it that fast! That’s when I whip up this strawberry rhubarb syrup.

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