Easy blueberry pie

This week we were invited out for shabbos dinner and our contribution was dessert. I wanted something easy with ingredients I already had around the house. I came up with this easy recipe that uses simple ingredients you probably already have around the house . Served warm with some vanilla Ice cream or sorbet it'll be a hit at your next meal.

Filling

1 1/2 pints blueberries

1 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp sugar

Crust

1 ready made frozen pie crust

2 packets maple and brown sugar, sugar free oatmeal

3/4 cup flour

1/2 cup sugar

4-5 tbsps room temperature margarine

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine blueberries with lemon juice and 1 tsp sugar. Pour into frozen crust. In a medium bowl, combine oatmeal, sugar, flour and margarine and mix with your hands till you get a soft dough. Take the dough and flatten over the blueberries leaving some space at the edges to allow steam to escape. Pat the top with flour and bake for 30-40 minutes.

Easy Beer Bread

Recently my husband and I took an amazing trip to Seattle. While there we met a lot of wonderful people and we had some amazing food. Shabbat was spent on Mercer Island and we had great food! We ate lunch at Radio Host's Michael Medved's home and his wife Diane made the most delicious beer bread. My husband was so in love with it that I started looking for recipes when I came home. I came across another foodie blog "The Picky Apple" who had posted a simple recipe that I just made some variations too. I made it this week in lieu of challah and I hope you'll give it a try.

Beer Bread

3 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

3 tbsps sugar

1 12 ounce bottle of Guiness

8 tbsps margarine or 1 stick

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. spray a loaf pan with a misto or non stick cooking spray. Melt the butter for 45 seconds in the microwave. Combine flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar and stir together. Add the beer and stir till combined, dough will be sticky. Pour half the melted margarine in the bottom of the pan. sppon the dough in and try to smooth it out so it won't be too lumpy. Then pour the rest of the margarine on top. Place in the oven and bake for 50-60 minutes and enjoy!