Ingredients You’ll Need

This blueberry cobbler recipe is so delicious and it only uses 6 ingredients! You’ll be amazed at how the blueberries sink from the top of the dough to the bottom. A crust appears and forms neatly over the top. This recipe is handy because the batter uses ingredients you’ll likely already have on hand. All you need to find is ripe blueberries! Here are the ingredients you need for this tasty summer dessert (plus salt):

• Fresh blueberries: This is best with ripe, fresh blueberries.
• All-purpose flour, granulated sugar, and baking powder: These are the typical ingredients that form that cobbler layer.
• Milk: I usually use 2%, but you could use oat milk for a dairy-free version with vegan butter.
• Butter: Butter is the key here: I wouldn’t substitute oil in this case.

The Magic Trick: How the Blueberries Sink

In this recipe, you’ll mix up the simple batter and place the fresh blueberries on top of it before placing it in the oven. How do they end up on the bottom? The blueberries are more dense than the batter. So during the 1 hour that the blueberry cobbler bakes, they’ll settle to the bottom. A beautiful golden brown crust of the batter forms on top!

When I first made this, I turned on the oven light and watched the berries. At 20 minutes, the blueberries were still on the top. But as luck would have it, after another 40 minutes a lovely golden crust had formed over the top of the blueberry cobbler. It worked! I pulled it from the oven and served it warm with melty vanilla ice cream. As I watched my son and his friends smear the blue goo all over their charming faces, I was convinced: this blueberry cobbler is now my family’s tradition, too.

More Blueberry Recipes To Try

• Easy Blueberry Crisp
• Lemon Blueberry Pancakes
• Blueberry Cake
• Blueberry Baked Oatmeal
• Blueberry Waffles
• Banana Blueberry Muffins
• Blueberry Smoothie
• Blueberry Juice

What Is a Jungle Bird Cocktail?

The Jungle Bird is a tropical cocktail made with rum, pineapple juice, and Campari. The story goes that it was invented in 1978 at the Aviary bar of the Kuala Lumpur Hilton. The telltale sign it’s that it’s modern: it fuses the Italian bitter Campari with the tropical flavors.

This drink recently surged in popularity, fueled by the Negroni craze. The drink is often garnished with pineapple leaves to mimic the feathers of a bird.

A Word on Campari

Campari is an Italian bitter with a bright red color! It’s easy to find, most famously used in the Negroni and other classic cocktails like the Americano and Boulevardier.

What does Campari taste like? It’s tastes bitter, fruity, and spicy all at once. It’s infused with different herbs and fruits, part of a secret recipe. Fun fact: Campari was originally colored so brightly red due to a dye made of crushed insects! That’s no longer in the modern recipe, so it shouldn’t deter you from grabbing a bottle.

More Campari Cocktails To Try

Here are some great Campari cocktails to test out:

• Negroni Sbagliato A spin on the classic cocktail using sparkling wine instead of gin. It’s bitter, sweet, and bubbly all at once.
• Old Pal Cocktail A three ingredient cocktail that’s sleek and sippable, balancing bitter and sweet with fiery whiskey.
• Mezcal Negroni The way the smoke of mezcal balances the bitter Campari makes an even better drink.
• Campari Spritz Bitter and bubbly, this cocktail mixes the popular aperativo with sparkling wine and soda water.

What Is a Cortado?

The Cortado is an espresso drink of equal parts espresso and steamed milk. It’s Spanish in origin: “cortado” means “cut” in Spanish, indicating that the espresso is cut with the milk. In contrast to other coffee drinks, a Cortado is always the same volume: one doubleshot of espresso and 2 ounces milk.

A Cortado is always served in a 4.5 ounce glass cup, making it easy to pour in the exact quantities. When it’s served in a special glass called a Gibraltar glass that tapers at the bottom, it’s called a Gibraltar. This tradition started at a coffeehouse in San Francisco and persists to this day! Some people say there are slight differences but the drinks are essentially the same.

Ingredients You’ll Need

• Espresso roast coffee: The roast is important to get the right dark, bitter flavor. Use a fine grind on the espresso beans. Some brands I recommend: Illy Intenso Bold Roast, Starbucks Espresso Roast or Intelligentsia Black Cat.
• Whole milk: Whole milk has the ideal richness for pairing with the bittersweet coffee, and it steams the easiest. For a a vegan cortado, oat milk is your best bet: it’s the best dairy-free milk for steaming.

How to Make a Cortado

Ready to get sipping? Here’s the outline of how to make a cortado at home:

• Make a double shot of espresso. Go to How to Make Espresso for instructions: you can make it with or without a machine. Our favorite espresso machine is this one, but it’s pricey. A manual espresso maker is much cheaper and portable, or French press espresso also works well.
• Steam or froth ¼ cup whole milk using the instructions below.
• Pour the espresso into a small glass, then top with the milk.

Below are a few notes on the methods for how to make espresso and how to steam or froth the milk.

Tips for Steaming or Frothing The Milk

One advantage to the cortado over the latte is that the quality of the steamed milk is less important. You don’t need the perfect microfoam texture like you need when making latte art. The milk is steamed but not textured. You can use the frothing process here and it works great! Here’s what to do:

• Froth the milk with a hand-held frother, French press, or whisk. The best tool is a frother if you have it, but a French press also works well. (We’d advise against a whisk here, but use it if it’s all you have.) Go to How to Froth Milk.
• Steam the milk using an espresso machine. Of course, the best cortado uses milk that’s steamed with an espresso machine! Go to How to Steam Milk and use the instructions for stretching the milk to 20 to 25% in height.

Grilled or Roasted: Two Easy Methods

To get the very best portobello mushroom burger there is, we think the grill is the number 1 method. But if it’s not summer and you want to make it too: roasting is nearly as tasty. Here’s a breakdown on both methods:

• Grilled portobello burger: You’ll use our Grilled Portobello Mushrooms method: grill those babies for about 15 minutes at medium high heat. Start with the gill side up, so when you flip all the extra liquid goes into the grates.
• Roasted portobello burger: You need only 15 minutes at 450 degrees Fahrenheit to roast up your mushrooms! Make sure to drain the extra liquid. Sometimes we like to add a few shakes of liquid smoke before roasting to emulate a grilled flavor. Just be careful not to overdo it!

Don’t Skip the Special Sauce

This Special Burger Sauce we created just for these portobello mushroom burgers! Veggie burgers in particular need good sauces, because they can be dry or bland without them. This burger sauce is like all your favorite burger condiments in one, and tastes a little like a Big Mac sauce. Here’s what’s in it:

• Organic ketchup
• Mayonnaise
• Mustard (either yellow or Dijon)
• Pickle juice
• Hot sauce

What to Serve With Portobello Mushroom Burgers

These portobello mushroom burgers are a great summer vegetarian recipe and vegan dinner idea! There are lots of sides that go well with burgers: here are some of our favorites:

• Fries. Try our Baked Fries, Sweet Potato Fries or Parmesan Truffle Fries
• Grilled potatoes. Try Grilled Potatoes, Grilled Baked Potato or Grilled Sweet Potatoes.
• Coleslaw. Try Creamy Coleslaw, Vinegar Coleslaw, Mexican Coleslaw, Red Cabbage Slaw, or Broccoli Slaw.
• Corn. Try Grilled Corn 3 Ways: perfect corn on the grates, corn in foil, or corn in husk.
• Bean salad. Loaded with plant-based protein, so it’s perfect for making a filling meal. Try Easy Bean Salad.
• Potato salad. Try Creamy Potato Salad, French Potato Salad, or Dill Potato Salad.

More Veggie Burger Recipes

There are lots of other great ways to make a veggie burger! Try them all:

• Best Veggie Burger This mouthwatering veggie burger is slathered with barbecue sauce and doesn’t fall apart on the grill! It’s truly the best you’ll find.
• Best Chickpea Burgers A hugely satisfying plant-based dinner! Here they’re painted with BBQ and served topped with vegan bacon and spicy mayo.
• Black Bean Burger Bursting with flavor! Top with special sauce for a treat.
• Falafel Burger Easy to make and healthier than traditional falafel! Serve with or without a bun, topped with any sauce you like.