The Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter is a website about cooking and eating delicious, seasonal and local foods.

summer

A Lemon Blueberry Olive Oil Cake

Sweet, sweet summer always passes in a flash. It is a funny time of year, as I am beyond excited about all of the incredible food that is in season and yet I am so busy enjoying it all that I don’t stop to document and share it here. I do manage to capture much of it with a quick snap on my phone over on Instgram. It is also a case of not really using recipes during these months.

Summer is all about simplicity, picnics, picking berries, dips in the ocean and laying on a blanket under a big tree. We eat sliced tomatoes with a drizzle of good olive oil, a scattering of fresh basil and sprinkle of flaked salt, apricots baked with a bit of honey and vanilla, ice cream, salmon on the bbq or a late summer succotash with butter, corn, fresh herbs and whatever bits are in the fridge. Delicious for sure but hardly worthy of a recipe.

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A Summer Mess of Cream, Berries and Meringue

My oh my! Where has the time gone? I last posted about rhubarb and now we are full on into everything summer: berries, cherries, peaches, apricots, zucchini, basil, cucumbers, tomatoes, beans and eggplants. Fear not, I have been cooking and eating lots since I last posted. Sadly it has all made its way into my belly and not onto the blog.

I will post a recipe again soon. In the meantime I wanted to share a few photos from a shoot I did for Edible Vancouver for their high summer issue which is just out for distribution this week. When Debbra emailed a while back asking if I wanted to shoot a story all about meringue, cream, ice cream and berries it was an immediate yes. I even had the pleasure of making and eating a new dessert called knickerbocker glory which ended up being featured on the cover of the issue.

It is a delicious story and series of recipes by Eagranie Yuh. Be sure to pick up a copy before they are all scooped up. It is another beauty of a magazine and won’t be around long. A digital version will also be up on the Edible Vancouver website with the recipes too!

Hope you are having a fabulous summer.

Apricot Cherry Galettes

I have been in a fruit frenzy this week eating cherries, apricots, peaches, raspberries, blueberries and even loganberries from my parents garden. Summer fruit is here and then it is gone in the blink of an eye. Don’t hesitate when the perfect blushing apricot catches your eye at the market. This galette recipe is the ideal summer dessert. It is rustic and works with any type or combination of summer fruit. Even the most reluctant of dessert eaters can’t pass up flaky buttery pastry filled with soft summer fruit and if they can muster the willpower that just means more for me and you.

I have made this recipe with peaches and blackberries, peaches and plums and various other combinations. You really can’t go wrong. I was inspired by apricots and cherries as they go beautifully with almonds. When cooked apricots have such a beautifully intense flavour and the perfect sweet/tart balance.

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