March 5th to 11th - National Food Holidays

I'm a little late with this week's blog post.  I think from now on, I'm going to list each day's food holiday and highlight one of the days with a recipe.  Feel free to post your favorite recipes for the other days.  This week's Food Holidays are:

March 5th:  National Absinthe Day
March 6th:  National Oreo Day
March 7th:  National Crown Roast of Pork Day
March 8th:  National Peanut Cluster Day
March 9th:  National Crab Meat Day
March 10th:  National Blueberry Popover Day
March 11th:  National Oatmeal-Nut Waffle Day


So this week I'm going to highlight National Blueberry Popover Day.  Here's an easy recipe:

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature

4 eggs, room temperature

1 cup all-purpose flour

½ cup heavy cream

1 cup whole milk

½ cup blueberries

1 pinch kosher salt

1 pinch freshly ground black pepper

1. Preheat oven to 400ºF. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with non-stick spray, or a 6-cup large muffin tin depending on the size of the popovers you’d like.

2. Melt butter in microwave and allow to cool.

3. Combine eggs, flour, salt and pepper in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix until all ingredients are blended.

4. Scrape down the sides with a spatula. Then, with the mixer on low, add the cream, milk and melted butter. Mix until everything is smooth and completely incorporated.

5. Distribute batter evenly amongst muffin cups, so each cup is roughly 2/3 full of batter. Drop a few berries into each muffin cup. Bake for 35 minutes, or until popovers are poofy and a light golden brown. Serve hot. Or, if you want to save them for dinner, pierce a tiny hole in the top so that they don’t “fall” while you are waiting to serve them.