Mixed Berry Compote

While I’m waiting for the new recipe book to arrive, I decided I have to do something to make up for the recent pizza disaster.

If you fall off a horse, get right back on again, right?

Berries are always a good place for me to start. Berries are pretty and inspiring.

Today I tried Rachael Ray’s berry compote recipe. I used it to top my lemon pancakes. I’ll post the pancake recipe another day. The compote recipe can be found at the bottom of this page.

My daughters helped me mix in the water, lemon juice, and sugar:

Dissolving the sugar:

Adding berries… The flash reflecting off the pan gave me trouble as the light dimmed in the kitchen. I’ll rig a fix for that in a future post.

I missed slicing a few strawberries… oops.

Measuring the honey:

We removed the berries and thickened the sauce with honey:

Pouring the sauce over the berries:

And here’s the finished compote, ready for lemon pancakes!

The progress report on my goal to discover enjoyment in cooking? You know, I really enjoyed making this. I think I’ve been trying to cook all this time without my best kitchen appliance – my camera!

I’ll be back soon with the lemon pancake pictures.

Comments
17 Responses to “Mixed Berry Compote”
  1. Mom says:

    Mmmmm. Looks yummy. I keep hearing how good berries are for you. This would be a good way to get more of them. I’d say the pizza (and the biscuits : ) ) were more than made up for!

  2. Annie says:

    My mouth is watering! I really hope I am successful, in the near future (Mom, do I need these commas here?), in providing you with home-grown berries. Then you can provide the tea-party-worthy breakfast! The pictures turned out superb!

    • Mom says:

      If you say it with commas in your voice, they’re good. Or you could just use the second one. Or neither. How’s that for helpful?

      • Annie says:

        oh, great, thanks, Mom.

        • Julie says:

          I like commas! They’re free; use ’em!

          • Anonymous says:

            Wait, so, then, if I suffer from aphasia, my writing, even though, while it’s possible to be interpreted, although potentially inaccurately, as choppy, is actually acceptable, grammatically speaking?

          • Three guesses who’s spamming the blog with comments about aphasia… 🙂

          • Julie says:

            But see, Mr. Spammer? I can hear how you said it; I can year your voice! I stand by my statement: I love commas. And now I know what aphasia is.

          • I would like to point out that my berry compote post has been completely overtaken by a series of comments about commas…

            I’m going to choose to view this as a sign of success. We had a long conversation over breakfast!

          • Annie says:

            Ok, so I was reading “mr. Anonymous”s made-up word about ‘alf-*ss-ia and thinking I should respond with something about the condition of jak*ssery, but then Mom said… “uh, the first one is a real word and not pronounced quite like you thought”…. thus, all snide remarks are null and void. pooh!

          • Mom says:

            The next lesson, class, will be on the use of quotation marks and apostrophes!

          • And with that, we’ve managed to max out the number of nested levels of comments this blog theme allows… To hash this out further, we’ll all have to click reply to Annie’s last comment.
            Or we could consider Annie’s diagnosis to be the final, authoritative word on the subject.
            For me, well, I’m, actually, kinda partial, truth be told, to “mr. Anonymous”s aphasia, regardless, forgive me, of how, in shades of nuance, you pronounce it. It’s catching. 🙂

  3. Julie says:

    Debbie, I think it’s time to come to my house and make breakfast. OK? Yes?

  4. Kerstin says:

    Oh, Ladies! Reading your conversation made me cry with delight! I miss all of you! Debbie, thanks for your patience in reminding me about your blog. What fun it will be to read along! Grace to you. Much love!

    • Thanks for your patience in calling to keep in touch! It was so nice to talk this afternoon. We miss you, too, and we can’t wait to live closer and let the cousins know each other better as they grow up.

      Much love to you & your family, too!

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