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.

Chili for the Chilly

Now that it is less than 100 degrees daily, I am looking through the cookbook for some cool weather food items. MKR's Chili Con Carne ( page 117) looks excellent and I think I will make it if and when the thermometer signals fall. I made it last year. Actually, I think I commingled her recipe with one of Bill Bellville's because it had habenero peppers in it.

I grow lots of habeneros without trying. They are beautiful to look at, resembling ruby red Christmas ornaments when they are ripe. Unfortunately, they are the atomic bomb of the pepper family and must be handled with care. MKR did not mention them in the cookbook. Her range of peppers is short...bell to datil.