Happy National Kitchen Klutzes Day

Black RaspberriesHope it was spectacular!  Isn't it wonderful that the powers at Hallmark would create a holiday for us?

I celebrated by driving an hour to go pick black raspberries.  My husband thinks I'm crazy.  Ok, maybe I am a little, but they are hard to find (hence the hour drive), have a very short season, and are delicious.  It was hard work.  I even have the wounds to prove it...those thorns are sharp! I'm going to make jam tomorrow.  yum.  Black raspberries look like their cousins, the red raspberry, but you guessed correctly, they are black.  The flavor is different as well.  I find them more intense, slightly tart, and less delicate.  We used to pick them wild growing up, but shockingly I haven't seen them growing on the streets of DC.