Oranges, Sour and Sweet

My citrus tree are bearing. The limequats have lots of fruit. The kumquats won't be outdone.The amber sweets served sushi cut style are beautiful and tasty. Northerners gasp after the first bite. So this is a real orange, they say.Reading Kate Morrison's accounts of the revival of the Cross Creek Groves brings tears to my eyes. I,too, have a sour orange tree after one of mine froze back to the graft. I am about to make the sour orange pie Kate talks about in her Cross Creek Kitchens.

Rabbits' Eye Blueberry Toast

Yum. This morning was a big hit. I used some of the berries I had frozen from the bushes out front, tore up yesterday's fine pecan bread, made a layer of blueberries, cream cheese on the pecan bread, sprinkled some pecan halves and covered the entire mix with a standard French toast egg mixture. Put it in the fridge overnight. Popped it in the 350 oven for an hour. It was so completely wonderful. The aroma had the guests dancing down to breakfast.I can't wait for the blueberry bushes to bear fruit this year. Technically, only two of them are true rabbit's eye. The others are Bonnie Blue. Marjorie could have had some bushes just like mine.