Mixed Berry Oat Crisps

My first post back since forever! I'm really happy that it's about baking because it's something I haven't done in awhile. I'm just starting to get back into everything I used to love before after having a crazy, emotionally draining summer. This was the first time I picked up a camera in two months. I really really loved this recipe. I've tried a few streusel cobbler recipes before but I've never felt they were really exceptional. This one really was. I think it was all in the struesel! This one is the best I've ever tasted. The perfect amount of oatmeal and cinnamon and brown sugar and pecans and the perfect crunch. The recipe doesn't call for any sugar in the berries which was great because they were tart and the perfect accompaniment to the sweet topping. I made three of them in those little white bowls I had laying around which I liked better instead of one big pan. They were the exact right size to share with someone. Here is the recipe courtesy of Bon Appetit. By the way, isn't their new website so pretty? I think the next thing I'm going to bake is that Lime and Blackberry Italian Meringue Pie they have on the cover of their current issue. It's too beautiful not to!





Things are slowly getting better for me. Slowly but surely. I don't know if I had mentioned it before but this month I finally got a job at a library and while it is not what I was doing before and not what I would like to be doing I am grateful that I at least am working at a library again. I shelve books all day which isn't so bad (even though I like to complain) because I come across a lot of books I want to read and I write them all down so I won't forget. The other day I came across a very old book called Ghostly Gentlewomen: Centuries of Spectral Stories By The Gentle Sex. Isn't that such a great name? It's wonderful and you should see if you can find it at your local library. In a couple of months, we all will be moving to a new big library our city has been building for the past year or so. Apparently it's going to be one of the largest single story libraries in Texas. It looks very extravagant from the planning photos I've seen. Lots of trees and walking areas and a water fixture. I'm looking forward to that.

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