Blueberry Sauce (and a Giveaway!)
*Don’t miss the blueberry giveaway at the bottom of this post!*
It should be no secret around here that Mike LOVES blueberries. Seriously, I think I post a blueberry recipe once a week! But it makes him happy, and it causes him to give me high ratings on my food, so it’s kind of a win-win. That being said, there is one blueberry recipe I’ve been hesitant to make – blueberry sauce. Mike has often told me of his grandmother’s blueberry sauce that he loved as a kid. I think he brings it up every time I make pancakes. Unfortunately his grandma is 92 and can’t remember her recipe, and no one seems to have a copy. I was nervous to just pick a recipe and try it, because I was pretty sure there was no way it would compare to his grandma’s recipe.
And then I found The Blueberry Store. Yes, a store entirely devoted to blueberries! If anyone would have a good blueberry sauce recipe, I figured it would be this place. So I decided to try it. I made their blueberry sauce, and surprised Mike with buttermilk pancakes covered in blueberry sauce for dinner one night. The verdict? He loved it! A complete success. He kept saying “This is awesome, this is so good!”, and he said it tasted just like his grandmother’s. I call that a success 🙂
*This recipe is fairly sweet. Mike didn’t mind, but cut down on the sugar a little if you prefer it a little less sweet.
Curious to know what Mike’s favorite dessert is from his grandma, and all-time favorite – period? Check out this Blueberry Pudding Dessert! Yes, it is also made up of blueberries. 🙂
Blueberry Sauce
Ingredients:
- ½ Cup Sugar
- ½ Cup Water
- Pinch of Salt
- 2 Tablespoons Cornstarch
- 2 Cups Fresh Blueberries
- 1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
- ½ Teaspoon Grated Lemon Peel
Directions:
- Combine water, cornstarch, sugar and salt in a sauce pan. Stir frequently over low heat until mixture boils and thickens. Stir in lemon juice and lemon peel. Add fresh blueberries, simmer 5 minutes. Let sauce cool slightly before using.
- Serve over ice cream, fresh melon, French toast, cheesecake or pancakes. Makes about two cups.
from The Blueberry Store
How would you like to win some of the amazing blueberry store products?? I love this store – They are a local, Michigan based company that truly has superior products. I never knew you could put blueberries into so many things! Their blueberry juice is especially delicious, and their dried blueberries are plump and full of flavor! The Blueberry Store has generously offered to give a Savory Extravaganza Basket to one reader.
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Blueberry Cranberry Juice
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Blueberry Apple Juice
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Old Fashioned Preserves
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Blueberry Beef Jerky
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Blueberry Coffee
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Blueberry Walnut Dip Mix
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Blueberry Mustard
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Blueberry BBQ sauce
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Blueberry Blossom Honey
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Blueberry Salsa
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Blueberry Vinaigrette
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Cranberry Walnut Dip Mix
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Blueberry Granola
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Check out The Blueberry Store and leave a comment telling me which product you would most like to try.
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Contest ends at 11:59pm, Sunday August 22nd. I will choose a random winner and contact the winner via email. I will also update this post with the name of the winner.
Welcome! I'm Megan and it's my hope that here you'll find food that has been made with love and recipes that are shared with joy. Thanks for stopping by! 
I think i'd like to try the blueberry honey 🙂 it looks so interesting. Thats cool that theres an entire store devoted to blueberries!
I think i'd like to try the blueberry honey 🙂 it looks so interesting. Thats cool that theres an entire store devoted to blueberries!
This is an awesome giveaway!
The bluberry coffee is screaming out to me! Sounds delicious!
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This is an awesome giveaway!
The bluberry coffee is screaming out to me! Sounds delicious!
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I'd love either the chocolate covered blueberries or the BBQ sauce! What a fantastice giveaway!
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Bently's Blueberry Green Tea sounds like a wonderful drink on a cool fall morning!
Oh man! I need to get my hands on that Chocolate Yang-Yin – Dark Chocolate Covered Blueberries & Caramel Corn.
It sounds freaking amazing!
I'm torn between the blueberry salsa and the blueberry granola.
I'm torn between the blueberry salsa and the blueberry granola.
I would love to tro the blueberry bbq sauce! This house loves blueberries!!
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I was thinking blueberry honey would be fabulous, but what really caught my eye was the chocolate covered blueberries. Your blueberry sauce looks delicious.
I'd love to try their blueberry butter -that sounds so good!
what a fun giveaway! I am actually interested in their frozen blueberries. I don't think I got enough this year.
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Yum!! Your pancakes look delicious, Megan!! I want to try the blueberry bbq sauce:) Miss you! Faith
Well there could always be worse things to love, right? I mean blueberries are so good for us! The sauce looks wonderful!
I think I would like the Campfire Mix…Trail mix with dark chocolate covered blueberries!!!
Thanks for hosting such a wonderful giveaway!
This sauce looks great! I the Dark Chocolate Covered Blueberries sound fabulous!
What a cool giveaway!! I would have to say the Chocolate Covered Blueberries – if they were delivered to my door in an un-marked package so my daughter wouldn't know (otherwise I'd have a battle on my hands…)
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Mmmmm…Megan, everything looks yummy although, i am partial to trying Anna's blueberry flavored "thins". Thanks for doing the giveaway. Dawnae@jrichards.org
i'd like to try the chocolate covered blueberries 🙂
Love that sauce! I would love to try the blueberry honey!
Chocolate covered blueberries sound awesome…who doesn't love anything in chocolate 🙂 And Blueberry beef jerky…I think I would have to try it to believe it!
Love this giveaway,
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looks delicious Megan! My hubby love blueberries to so I will need to try out your recipe!!
p.s. the chocolate covered blueberries look like an excellent choice!
Blueberry honey for sure. I love the different kinds of honey and how the aroma of different plants provides a subtle hint of the fruit.
I'd love to try the Bentley's Blueberry White Tea!
http://www.theblueberrystore.com/products/186/56/bentley-s-blueberry-white-tea—24ct-box/
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I'd love to try the Blueberries Foster sauce; so many possibilities. Can't go wrong with blueberies..
I'd love to try the Blueberries Foster sauce; so many possibilities. Can't go wrong with blueberies..
I much prefer fruity sauces to regular syrup on pancakes and waffles. I've made a strawberry sauce, but never blueberry- looks gorgeous! I would totally want to try their straight up fresh blueberries!!
Blueberry blossom honey sounds really interesting
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I would love to try their blueberry vinegar to make a dressign with
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I am all over that blueberry maple syrup!!!!!! Mmmmmm
Blueberry cocoa definitely sounds the most intriguing!
This recipe looks wonderful! I think I would try the blueberry barbeque sause. Yum!
Hi Megan,
Thanks for commenting on my blog this morning.
I would love to try the blueberry honey, or blueberry butter. I think my kids would enjoy them.
Lisa
I'm going w/ the jerky for my hubby to try and the honey for me to try!
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Nadine
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I'm all about the blueberry honey. Adding it to plain yogurt would be amazing!
I'm all about the blueberry honey. Adding it to plain yogurt would be amazing!
the dark chocolate covered blueberries sound yummy!
Tracy
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I would love to try the blueberry honey and I think the coffee sounds great also!
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The dried blueberries for sure. Usually they're so teeny tiny you wouldn't even know what they are, but that you described these as plump and juicy… drooooool
OMG! Me Me Me! I LOVE blueberries too, and I love that there is a whole store dedicated to this wonderful fruit. I'd love to try the coffee…while munching on the beef jerky!
I also tweeted! 🙂
I think my life would not be complete without trying some blueberry salsa!!! 🙂
I'd love to try Blueberries Foster. I love anything bananas foster, so this caught my eye right away:)
Tricia
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Oh for sure the blueberry vinaigrette! That would be a must!
I just saw a cookie recipe with dried blueberries in it–so that's what I most want 🙂
I want the blueberry muffin mix! Now I'll be craving those all day. 🙂
My daughter LOVES blueberries. She eats them a pint at a time. Blueberry butter sounds like it would be awesome on some blueberry muffins!!
Megan, your blueberry pancakes look amazing!! Great giveaway too. We love blueberry everything in our house.
I would have to try the blueberry butter. I am rather fond of making apple butter, mango butter jam, and pumpkin butter… so that would deffinitely be something to check out :o)
~ Sarah
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Hey Megan. Daron & I would love to try the Blueberry BBQ sauce or the Chocolate Covered Blueberris, or the Blueberry Honey. I love blueberries, so everything sounds sooooo delicious.
Hey Megan. Daron & I would love to try the Blueberry BBQ sauce or the Chocolate Covered Blueberris, or the Blueberry Honey. I love blueberries, so everything sounds sooooo delicious.
I would love to try the Blueberry Blossum honey
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What the what?! Now thats a whole blueberry extravaganza, wowzers I'm in love. I am absolutely intrigued by the bluberry BBQ sauce (bBBQ?), but so many of their products look great.
awesome post!
Lara
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What a great giveaway – I am totally into trying the Blueberry Blossom Honey. I totally adore fancy honey. 🙂
Also – those pancakes look amazing! Yum!
I also tweeted the giveaway:
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OMG! The Blueberries Foster sounds amazing! If I don't win it, will have to try my hand at making it! My dad and mom grew up in Michigan (Charlotte and Lowell) and my brother and I spent summers up there. Picking wild blueberries with our grandparents was one of our favorite activites! Even tho I live in Missouri now, will still only buy Michigan berries at the grocery store. Michigan made me a blueberry freak for life! ~ Susan in St. Louis – susan.field@gmail.com
I would love to try some dark chocolate covered blueberries! That sounds so interesting!!! lhammons@ma.rr.com Lori
I'd like to try the blueberry coffee and the blueberry salsa (just not together)
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The BBQ sauce on RIBS!!!!
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I would order blueberry bushes. I want to grow my own.
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i'd say the blueberry bush — to grow my own! though i'm guessing that's not what you had in mind… so i'll go with the NSA blueberry syrup.
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*heather*
I would love to try some dark choc covered blueberries! Yum! i am keeping my fingers crossed!!
I'd like to try the milk chocolate covered blueberries. I wonder what they'd taste like in a muffin or cookie!
What a lovely giveaway! And how could a girl choose just one from such delectable choices, just answer that for goodness sake!
Yet rules are rules…Blueberry honey sounds delightful 🙂
Oh wow, so many yummy-sounding selection, i'm having a hard time to pick one. Blueberry coffee sounds awesome, I'm a coffee and fruit lover, this should be an interesting combination :). Your pancake looks so delicious!
The blueberry blossom honey sounds great!
I'd like the try the Blueberry Walnut Dip Mix!
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The blueberry butter sounds divine!
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Elise
I want to try everything BUT I'd especially like to try the bbq sauce on some grilled chicken for me or a nice salmon filet for my husbnd!
Adrienne
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I'd love to try the
Blueberry Pecan Maple Granola Mix!
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chocolate covered blueberries!
jessica
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Megan, your blog looks incredible! I'm really impressed. And if I had to choose, I'd go for the chocolate covered blueberries or the jam. These are a few of my favorite things.
Jason – jasonwallin@gmail.com
Blueberry Salsa!
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I'd love to try the Blueberry Butter. It sounds delish!
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I'd love to try making a salad dressing with the blueberry concentrate. But there are so many other delights to consider as well!
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i want the blueberry lollipop for my son lol
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Definitely the Gourmet Blueberry Syrup! We are all about breakfast food at our house! 🙂
Blueberry Salsa sounds yummy on some cinn/sugar tortilla chips!
Blueberry Beef Jerky??? Really? I don't know about that!
Oh the honey sounds sooo good but then so ddoes that BBQ sauce. What a wonderful giveaway!
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I think plain ol' dried blueberries would be the best thing. Even though all the sauces and whatnot sound good, I almost never use things like that. Dried fruit is just more versatile. (Although I WOULD totally eat the granola…)
Kim
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The blueberries foster sauce sounds awesome! Bananas foster is one of my favorite desserts, so this would be a really cool twist.
The Blueberry Maple Syrup sounds great! I bet it would taste awesome on oatmeal or pancakes!
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dried blueberries. but i have to say the chocolate covered ones and the trail mix both look very awesome.
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Jodi jgleason26@msn.com
I think the blueberry foster sounds yummy!
Dark chocolate covered blueberries and blueberry sauce are it for me 🙂
Josee scorpiofire88@hotmail.com
I'd have to go with the blueberry barbecue sauce. It was tough choice – they've got some great stuff there!! kateiscooking
Blueberry beef jerky
Sounds interesting
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being a chocoholic it would be chocolate covered blueberries
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That blueberry bush would give me an endless supply of blueberries (to cover in chocolate)!
But if I were to try a product, Blueberry Bratwurst! It sounds so mysterious!
Megan, I love anything blueberry, especially preserves and syrup for my pancakes and waffles. However, what I would want most from the Blueberry Store would be the Berry Bear Doll for my granddaughter Evangeline. She just loves little stuffed animals, especially beanie bears, and she plays with them constantly. Evie would love to have the Berry Bear Doll for Christmas. Mary Dobish – freud717@msn.com
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