Kelly Green With Envy

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Wild Blackberries

My hands and feet are covered in scratches from my forage into blackberry bushes this weekend, but it was so worth it. I picked about 2 quarts worth in less than an hour, and then spent about 4 hours in the kitchen creating these beauties:

The peach and blackberry galette was inspired by a recipe I found via gojee.com (my go-to lately for searching recipes by ingredient) which I decided to make with the excess pastry left over from the tarts. Because the tart pastry was so sweet it ended up tasting like a giant shortbread cookie (not a bad thing, in my books), and the peaches and blackberries were such a good complement.

The blackberry custard tarts are my best recipe find in a while. They were fairly time-consuming (such an understatement considering I picked the blackberries myself in addition to the many stages of pastry prep). Since I was using mini tart pans I had to halve the custard recipe and even then I still ended up tossing a bit of the custard mix down the drain, so next time I will either buy more tart pans or get a regular size pan. These are too good to waste.

There are still lots of blackberries remaining from the weekend, some of which I tossed in a salad (the blackberry juices were really good with the olive oil and balsamic dressing I made). I think the rest will go in a blackberry apple crisp later this week ...

Feast For The Eyes

I am admittedly late getting on board Katie Quinn Davies' foodblog, What Katie Ate, and only accidentally happened across it recently on pinterest, of all places.

I was searching for images of cake (why not?) and kept coming across these ethereally-lit photos that were more like paintings than photographs. After following several links I came across Katie's website and have been pouring over her archives ever since. It has all the right ingredients (ahem) that one would want in a foodie blog: recipes, well-written anecdotes about food and travels, and pictures - oh, the pictures! Some of them remind me of rustic Renaissance still lifes, but mostly they just give me mad cravings:

chocolate ganache, raspberry and pistachio pancake layer cake; chocolate fudge cake; roasted tomato & capsicum; paprika & basil soup; pomegranates

all images from Katie Quinn's website and blog

Fashion Sweatpants

Karl Lagerfeld once said, "Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants."

It looks like Karl's alone on this one. Introducing, the suddenly-ubiquitous fashion sweatpant. The skinnification of sweatpants was bound to happen after leggings and jeggings became all the rage. Designers from Ralph Lauren and J.Crew to Alexander Wang and Isabel Marant have hopped on board this one - that's a lofty bunch of defeatists! Obviously le Karl has no idea you can have your cake and eat it too. (Being Karl, he would probably frown upon that very idea.)

heathered longjanes, madewell

Isabel French Terry Pant, Club Monaco

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