Ilive in the Avenues and am blessed with great dirt. When you plant things, they flourish — every year growing bigger and more bountiful when it comes to crops. The downside is, unless you’re running a boarding house for hungry teenagers, what to do with all the great produce you produce when it’s only the two of you?

Take blackberries for instance. First, they are these pretty little hard green things, then two turns and the vines are heavy with black berries as big as your thumb. Maybe a dozen on a bowl of corn flakes, but then what about the remaining quarts languishing on your kitchen counter giving you the side-eye as they continue to ripen past the “perfect” stage?

For the first picking, we tried this recipe for peach blackberry cobbler by Gaby Dalkin.

Our L&T freestone Red Haven

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