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A very sweet reader in NC emailed me about their 7th annual Blueberry Festival that is held every year in Burgaw, NC. And she also sent me a copy of their blueberry cookbook, which is chock full of great recipes using at least 1 cup of blueberries, retail value $18.
The festival began back in 2004 and recipes were collected over the years. Finally, enough recipes came together to compile a cookbook with over 300 blueberry recipes.
I know many of you are berry fans also and would love to have a copy of this cookbook too, so she is graciously giving away 2 more copies to my readers. All you have to do is leave a comment telling me your favorite way to eat blueberries. If you don’t win, but would like to purchase a cookbook, you can call 910-259-9817 for all the details.
We LOVE blueberries in our family! My parents have huge bushes up at their NC house and it’s a treat to go up there and pick this time of year. In fact, we’ll be going up there very soon doing just that. Blueberries are SO good for you too, you can’t eat too many of them.
OK, leave a comment and I’ll pick 2 winners for your very own copy of the NC Blueberry Festival Cookbook.
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My favorite is still Blueberry Muffins! Although my Dad’s Blueberry Pancakes are a very close 2nd!
It is deffinately blueberry cobbler. Can never get enough!
My favorite is the wonderful blueberry muffin recipe of the Barefoot Contessa. They are the absolute best!! Neighbors of ours have a large blueberry patch and they have a U-Pick season every spring. I look forward to it every year. Thanks for a chance to win this very generous gift. HTH Janet
I’m still thinking about that blueberry braid you posted about last year!!!
BTW – I sent you an email invitation a couple of days ago. Hope you received it.
I love blueberries. If I have any left after we pick them (the kids eat them as they go) then I like them on my cereal or in my yogurt. Yummy in muffins, too.
I would love one!
Blueberry muffins, for sure! Thanks for the giveaway!
BTW, I am in the process of opening my own preschool and the name is going to be Blueberry Hill Nursery School!
I must say blueberry muffins with a little raw sugar on top! yum
What a nice offer. The book sounds wonderful. I love blueberries in many ways, but I guess my favorites are blueberry buttermilk pancakes and blueberry struesel muffins.
Oooh, I love blueberry pancakes. You know, cooked to perfection, and the berries are just ready to pop in your mouth. Yep! That’s the best way to eat blueberries….
Becky K.
Hospitality Lane
What a great book. I would love a chance to win that.
I go blueberry picking every year at the sweetest little farm up here in N.H. and I would love to make some of the recipes in your cookbook.
Fresh blueberries popped open with flavor, and spreading purple color through a sweet, warm, sugar-topped muffin. Mmmm.
I love blueberries – for years we picked them, but then they sold the orchard? farm? lot? and built a subdivision – now I have to buy them already picked. I have to figure out how many to buy fresh to freeze for all year!
Hi Rhoda! My favorite way to eat blueberries, you ask??.. Fresh, right out of the basket I bought them in, from the farmer who sold them to me! Other than that, I love them in muffins and waffles! ~tina
I love them in a cobbler. Thanks for the giveaway.
Blueberries are good just about anyway you eat them. We have a blueberry farm close by. It’s a special treat to pick and visit with the owners and sample their blueberry jam. Yum! Appreciate the chance to win the cookbook. Thank you!
The easiest, quickest way for us is in a salad of mixed greens. We eat these with dinner at least 3 times a week, and the blueberries are such a delicious, healthy addition. DH tossed them in his daily cereal, too when we have them available. Once in a while I bake them in a rustic tart for a sweet treat.
I njust bought some blueberries from a farm stand near my house and today I am going to make blueberry pancakes. I would love to win this cookbook!
I love eating them fresh on cereal.
I freeze blueberries and eat them frozen. I call them “Nature’s M&Ms”!
Debbie
Just one way? OMG, it’s so hard to choose. I love blueberry muffins, blueberry pie, cobbler, crisp. But I think the way I love blueberries the most is homemade blueberry preserves. Nothing like homemade preserves on my buttered english muffin in the morning.
I love all things blueberry! Pancakes and muffins, my fave!!!
Love me some blueberries. Every summer I would go blueberry picking with my grandpa in Michigan when we would visit! Thise are cherished memories.
I love blueberries in smoothies, muffins with sugar crumble, and in pancakes! What a fun give away!
We love them in a lot of things but one of my family’s favorite is lemon blueberry muffins. Thanks for a chance in your giveaway.
Debbie V.
What a great book! We have several bushes of our own. Everyone’s favorite way to eat them…right off the bush! LOL We do like blueberry crisp though.
I love blueberries. My favorite way to eat them is in blueberry buckle…yum!
Ooh, I love blueberries, they are my absolute favorite! I love to eat them in blueberry buckle, which my husband and daughter make for my birthday each year.
Every year when we go on a beach vacation in NC, we stop at Nelson’s blueberry farm just outside New Bern and load up on fresh blueberries. So I am always looking for recipes to use up our bounty.
My two favorite ways to eat these great for you blueberries are in yogurt & mini blueberry muffins. Would love to win this cookbook to read more ways to fix these berries. Thank you for this giveaway!
My family loves blueberry pancakes!
I love blueberry muffins best. But they are wonderful on my cereal, too!
I love blueberries “fresh” and in muffins! A local farm here has a “berry ferry” (like being on a hayride) that takes you to the berries for picking! Thanks for offering this giveaway! I would love to have a blueberry cookbook!
I love blueberries in a salad… I also like them in muffins and pancakes.
Mmmm, I can just about taste blueberry muffins and pie. I just bought some yesterday so bring on a new recipe!
Blueberry Cobbler is my favorite but unfortunately it is not on my “best things to eat for weight loss list” right now – lol . . . so eating them fresh right out of the bucket is wonderful too!
Love blueberries….My favorite is blueberry muffins…My daughter just emailed me a recipe for blueberry coffeecake, sounds heavenly, I’m going to have to try it out….I would love to have a blueberry cookbook
I have a neighbor who makes the best Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake and I wish I had the recipe! Blueberry pies are quite nice too!
I hadn’t heard of this festival, so I will definitely put it on our schedule for next year. We love blueberries. My favorite way it to eat them plucked right off the bush. We have 6 small ones. But we add them to oatmeal, yogurt and just about anything. My favorite cooked way to eat them is in cobbler.
Oh yum! I eat them most mornings with my yogurt and granola! Or throw them in pancakes. I don’t think there is a wrong way to use them!
Blueberry pie…nuff said
We make blueberry pancakes all the time, I would love to have some new special recipes. What a wonderful, truly southern find
My favorite way is to grab a handful and just eat! But I also love to add them to cereal and muffins.
Blueberry muffins. I have an amazing recipe!
Blueberry pancakes are THE best!
I love blueberry pancakes! This book sounds wonderful.
Another wonderful website and fun things to do from NC. Wish Missouri was a little closer. Yummy for the blueberry cookbook.
Umm. I love blueberries, especially blueberry muffins. There are hidden blueberry bushes here in my town and only the town people know about them and I have for years tried to get them to tell me where they are. I am determined this year to find them.
My favorite way to eat blueberries are in muffins! Yummy!!!
I love fresh blueberries in vanilla yogurt!
I noticed on my comment a few seconds ago that just as I pushed submit, my email address was incorrect. I corrected it here. Sorry.
I’m simple when it comes to my blueberries– I like them pressed into the confectionary sugar and butter icing on top of fluffy angel food cake. Delicious!!
We grow blueberries and I have been making blueberry jam and cobblers all summer. Sure would like a copy of this recipe book for more ideas!
You are so sweet! I like blueberries in a fruit cup made by my mother in law. Sitting outside in the early morning in Las Vegas with a cup of coffee and half a bagel. I just had that last week when I was there. They are huge this year!
Poached & softened with peaches inn Sauterne, then drizzled over vanilla ice cream!
My favorite way to eat blueberries is Blueberry Oat Bars. Starbucks has a good version.
Love blueberry pies!
Blueberry Almond muffins are my fav but I don’t think there is any bad way to eat a blueberry. Yummy!
We have several blueberry bushes and I love nothing better than going out early in the morning and picking blueberries (while dodging the dive bombing mockingbirds) and then adding them to my cereal. My husband makes a fabulous blueberry pie that he adapted from his grandmother’s huckleberry pie recipe. It is labor intensive but totally worth the time and effort to make it.
Definately in a batch of blueberry scones with lemon glaze. Yummy!
I just made a new blueberry salad with fresh corn, red onions, cilantro, cumin and cucumbers. It was delicious. I just love blueberries! They are good in anything.
I make some mean blueberry pancakes!!! But I love ‘em anyway!!!
i love the simplicity of blueberries – i grab a handful – throw these into a couple of spoonfuls of greek yogurt – and Im out the door.
Cereal Baby! Just throw a big handful on a bowl of cheerios!
I live in NC and I love the abundance of blueberries and peaches here. If I feel like eating healthy I slice fresh peaches and throw some blueberries and toss them together in a bowl. Oh, but if I am feeling decadent I make a peach and blueberry cobbler in a casserole dish 81/2 x 11 and put thin pie crust between 3 layers and criss cross it on top like my Mom did. Yummy either way.
I would love an opportunity to win a copy of this fabulous cookbook. I love blueberries in my smoothies on a hot summer afternoon. I also love them in my salads with feta cheese.
My kiddos like just plain blueberries-my husband loves blueberry pie-and I am a huge fan of blueberry muffins! Thanks for hosting this!
jnjdavenport@yahoo.com
What a great giveaway! My favorite way to eat blueberries is with my two year old son, Oliver. That kid LOVES his blueberries and he carries them around in his snack cup and pops them into his little mouth. I love it when he shares and puts them in my mouth for me! Priceless!
Thanks for the chance to win!!!
I love Blueberry muffins, and I also love 1 cup of blueberries, with 1 sliced banana, 3 strawberries sliced, drizzled with raw honey and dusted with cinnamon and a dash of nutmeg. YUM!
Blueberry crepes are my favorite!
Yummy! We enjoyed blueberry pancakes this morning with fresh berries and blueberry yogurt! Anything blueberry is a favorite!
My all time favorite would have to be Hot blueberry/raspberry pie with a cool scoop of vanilla ice cream running down the sides. So Blueberry/Raspberry Pie Alamode! :*)
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I love, love, love blueberry salsa! So healthy for you, too.
My fav way to use blueberries if for breakfast … Its a blueeberry breakfast bread pudding, sort of like french toats….. http://mermaidstreasures.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-after-halloween-breakfast.html
But I have a pie that I have on my site too thats also my fav.
Blueberries are my fav fruit and grow around here alot. So that cookbook would be a great one for me to have
I love blueberry anything…pancakes, muffins, bread, smoothie, and just plain.
I’ve gone to NC to pick apples, but didn’t realize they also have blueberries.
My son in law would love this cookbook!
LOVE blueberries. I love them plain, in muffins, cobblers, anything! We used to pick them in the heat of Florida. Haven’t tried in TN. yet.
We don’t grow many in Iowa, except in my yard (I get some) so I get most at the store. For the last 40-50 years, I’ve loved Blueberries in everything. My favorite is frozen on my cereal for breakfast, the milk freezes a thin crust on them, fantastic.
HMMMMM here I am in Indiana,,, and missing all the fun back in N.C. lol oh well…. my Grandma grew blueberries and when we used to visit her she would have a bowl with sugar and cream waiting for us,, and that is how I like mine,,, it brings back memories of my Grandma….
Have a great weekend
Hugs;
Alaura
what fun…
we <3 blueberries here too…we have a couple of wild blueberry patches close by and my sister grows them in her yard
put me in for the drawing, please
LOVE some blueberries!
We have a blueberry farm in my town. When they are ripe you can go in and pick your own! I’m trying something new this year and making blueberry jam!
#1 way: Make blueberry preserves
#2 way: Blueberry Dump Cake
#3 way: Blueberry muffins w/Streusel Topping
I love me some blueberries!!!! Hope I win
Tammy gordonfan@embarqmail.com
I love to make blueberry muffins, Id love to have more recipes to try out, so please enter me. Thank You.
Blueberry muffins are my favorite type of muffin! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!
It’s a toss up between blueberry pancakes & blueberry muffins.
Oh with a freezer full of blueberries I sure would love to win this book, from pancakes, muffins to fancy Cream blueberry cake, love them all ways any way even fresh right from the vine. Hugs and hope I win
Hot Blueberry Dump Cake!!! Yummy
Blueberry cobbler is #1 with my family! We sure would be willing to try some new recipes though!! Thanks!
I love these regional cookbooks! My daughter and I love to freeze blueberries and eat them frozen! Great summer treat for the kids! ladyhightower@live.com
Blueberry pie, blueberry jam, blueberries on cereal – all of these are my favorites.
I love blueberry clafloutis – it is the most incredible splurge. With ice cream! We also love blueberries on salads and just by themselves.
On my back on the ground in the Swedish alps just reaching out and plucking it straight off the little bush and dropping it into my mouth.
Blueberries…one of my favorite! They are delicious just by themselves as a snack, great in pancakes, a baked blueberry crisp or my mom’s blueberry jam recipe. The cookbook sounds wonderful!
I love blueberries no matter how they are served. Probably my favorites that I make are struesel topped muffins or coffee cake. A cook book with only blueberries would sure be treasured.
Hmmm…hard to choose just one so I will mention two: one is in a blueberry crumble and the other is in a mixed berry compote of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries, chilled, with a little Equal sprinkled over them for sweetness and a dollop of whipped cream or Cool Whip on top…heaven in a dish!!!
I love making blueberry muffins for the family on Sunday mornings before heading out to church.
I love eating them in blueberry muffins!
Oooh, yum! I can’t wait for blueberry season each year. We LOVE blueberries on top of our waffles (which already have peanutbutter on them), and blueberry muffins, in smoothies, in fruit salad…..I could go all Forrest Gump on you and keep going! How nice of her to send you these.
I love blueberries. I was just starting to make a blueberry tart and decided to check my email. Blueberries just say summer.
Blueberries are the best.
I would lovvvvvvvee to have one of those cookbooks. I live in the blueberry capital in GA. We also have a blueberry festival every year and many of our friends are blueberry farmers. I always enjoy getting sweet, delish blueberries from our friends. I would absolutely love to try out some yummy blueberry recipes. Thanks so much. BTW I just love reading your blog. Thanks again.
Cobblers and Pies have got to be the best way to eat blueberries. My hubby eats them every morning on his cereal and, of course, nothing beats a blueberry muffin. So I guess the bottom line in our family is, as long as it contains blueberries, the recipe will be great!
I love blueberries and this looks like a awesome cookbook. I would love to go to a blueberry festival.