Delicious Blueberry Quick Bread

Sometimes you gotta feast

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We work at trying to eat healthy. But sometimes you’ve just got to throw the restrictions, the judgment, the ‘I shouldn’ts to the wind. One of these times is peak berry season, when there’s nothing quite like Delicious Blueberry Quick Bread.

Granted, in and of themselves, berries are among the top five healthiest things you can eat (depending on what expert you consult). It all goes back to the hunter-gatherer days of seeds, nuts, berries and the occasional piece of meat. Of course, I don’t think the lifespan of our ancestors was exactly award-winning. But that’s not because of berries . . .

I digress

Nothing beats berries in their raw form. However, there is also something about the transformation of a berry under heat. The sweet, intact structure becomes almost jammy, even sweeter, and some might argue — the very best way to consume a fresh berry.

I’m not a huge berry pie fan. Often, the crust seems to overwhelm the berries and it becomes more of a lesson in pie crust texture, than berries.

But pull together a quick bread, one absent yeast, dependent purely on the leavening of baking soda, powder, or a combination of them both – activated by the liquid, and you fight nothing. The delicate, pull-away texture of this bread whose only real purpose is to suspend the sweet berries hanging inside, can be the ultimate healthy decadence.

The blueberry

Blueberries tend to do particularly well in this application. Raspberries and blackberries can fall apart, smear through the batter creating a sense that they may have been better off in a different application. But the hearty blueberry gets it just right. They keep their shape, deepen in flavor and I’d argue develop better texture when made into a quick bread. The perfect Sunday morning treat.