two ingredients. one happy camper.

I've mentioned many times that I'm a berry girl. I love all berries. Especially fresh (and locally) picked raspberries. But with blackberries literally a few steps away from my backyard, these juicy guys have a place in my heart as well. In fact, I've included some photos of blackberries and even made a blackberry roly poly out of them as well.

Anyway, since I have to wait six months until blackberries come around again, I've been stuck eating the frozen store-bought ones. Which just aren't the same. So I decided to make a blackberry sauce instead. With only two ingredients.

The best part of this sauce? The fact that it still has pieces of whole berries (as opposed to a sauce where the berries are completely cooked down and disintegrated).

Ingredients:
1 bag (sixteen ounces) frozen blackberries, thawed for five-ten minutes in room temperature
note: I'm sure fresh blackberries work just as well, I just haven't tried making sauce with them yet.

Table sugar (to taste) I used about two-three tablespoons with the store-bought variety and about one tablespoon for locally picked berries
note: The amount of sugar you use depends on the sweetness of the berry and the sweetness preferences of the cook.

So here's how you make it:
1. After berries have thawed, pour half of the bag into a pot. Turn the stove onto medium high. Add sugar, and stir.

2. Once berries have cooked down (takes about five-ten minutes depending on how frozen the berries are), add the rest of the berries. Stir gently (to prevent them from falling apart) and turn off heat after a couple minutes when the berries are no longer frozen.

3. Here comes the fun part, take a little taste. In my last (store-bought) version, I had to turn the heat back on because it was super sour (I added more sugar and turned off the heat once sugar dissolved). If perfect, let it cool and store in the fridge.

So what do you put this on? How about a lime tart (like this one)? Or with some plain greek yogurt (if you want to make this combination sweeter, add some whipped cream!)? Or perhaps, try it on some vanilla ice cream. Yum...