Living Large

[salmonchaser]

So this morning the girls decided to take me picking huckleberry up at 7000 feet. We had a great time, put up some grouse, both blues and ruffed. On the way down Catherine decided we should go pick some peaches. The huckleberry patch is 10 miles east of us. The peaches about the same distance going south west.
Halibut from our recent trip to Sitka for dinner with Potatoes out of the garden.
Desert is sliced peaches covered in huckleberry.
I am a lucky man.

 

[JD338]

An amazing meal for sure.

JD338

 

[JMRhino]

I would have bet those were blueberries. We don't have huckleberries in the southeast. Interesting.

 

[DrMike]

Living the dream!

 

[hunter24605]

Whoa! Now that’s some fine vittles.

 

[Wolfshead]

I would have bet those were blueberries. We don't have huckleberries in the southeast. Interesting.

I didn’t know there was a difference. Always thought that they were the same.
Nice having fresh fruit in season!

 

[JD338]

And for the final touch, huckleberry ice cream


JD338

 

[salmonchaser]

Blueberry are usually larger and more abundant where they grow. In Alaska we had blue berry all over in the Tundra this time of year. Scoop them up by the handful while hiking. Bears like them too. Huckleberry is labor intensive, harder to pick and find than blueberry.