6 cup               Blackberries
1 ½ cup           Brown Sugar
1 ½ cup           Old-Fashioned Oats (not instant)
1 cup               Flour
½ cup              Parmesan Cheese (freshly grated)
1 tsp                Salt
6 oz                 Butter (chilled and cut into ¼” pieces)

Instructions

• Place fruit in bottom of lightly buttered 9x12” baking dish.
• In separate bowl, mix sugar, oats, flour, cheese and salt.
• With a hand mixer, or your finger tips, quickly mix butter pieces into sugar mixture to form a coarse meal.  Mixture should be loose and crumbly.
• Gently sprinkle topping mixture over the fruit.
• Bake in a pre-heated oven, 375 degrees for about 35 minutes or until top is lightly browned and fruit is bubbling.
• Serve warm over vanilla ice cream.  Invite Your Produce Man over for some!

BLACKBERRY REFRESHER

Ingredients

½ cup              Sugar
½ cup              Water
7 cup               Fresh Blackberries
2 cup               Orange Juice
½ cup              Lemon Juice
1 ½ cup           Cold Water

Instructions

• Wash Blackberries just before you use them.
• Combine sugar and ½ cup water in a small saucepan.  Cook over a medium heat until sugar dissolves, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat and chill.
• Mash berries.  As an option, you can also press them through a strainer to remove seeds.
• Combine berries with orange juice, lemon juice.  Add the sugar syrup.  Chill until very cold.
• Just before you serve this, add 1 ½ cup of cold water.
• You could throw it in a blender with some ice cubes if you want.

TANGY BLACKBERRY CHUTNEY

Ingredients

1 ea                 Onion (chopped)
1 TBS              Garlic (minced)
3 TBS              Olive Oil
½ - ¾ cup        Light Brown Sugar
¼ cup              White Wine Vinegar
1 ½ tsp            Salt
1 tsp                Ground Cumin
½ tsp               Ground Cinnamon
½ tsp               Nutmet (preferably freshly grated)
¼ tsp               Cayenne Pepper
4 cups             Peaches (sliced)
1 cup               Blackberries
½ cup              Walnut halves and pieces