Lori pointed me to this post over at Cute Overload with some of the most imaginative, adorable bento I have ever seen! I think these inari babies are my favorites, but it was a close one.

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The raw apple and pear tart pictured above may be the hippiest thing to ever emerge from my kitchen. And that includes the Mission: Possible where we all made green cleaning supplies. The crust is raw and completely cribbed from this recipe. I ended up using only about 2 cups of walnuts instead of 2.5 and probable not a full 1.5 cups of dates, since my tart pan is a little on the small side. For the filling, I marinated a couple of sliced up apples and pear in brown sugar, lime juice and maple syrup, then ground it coarsely through the blender…not enough to make applesauce, just enough to make it feel like pie filling to me. The whole thing is topped with the remaining 1/2c walnuts mixed with a couple of tablespoons of maple syrup. Oh, and of course blueberries. Because pretty much everything I make ought to involve blueberries for the foreseeable future. I’m thinking I’ll serve this on Wednesday night when folks come over to watch MST3K!

My genius friend Ally planned a fruit-picking, pic nicking field trip for this weekend! A bunch of us drove north of the city to Briar Patch Farms in Dacula, where you can pick apples, pears, blueberries and muscadines. There were tomatoes and beans that we weren’t sure you could pick or not, but I think we probably could have. They also have blackberries most of the time, but the fellow told us they weren’t ready for picking.

We came home with a gallon of mixed up apples and pears, 2/3 gallon of blueberries and a gallon of muscadines! The blueberries are divvied up between the fridge and freezer, and some are already starring in some awesome blueberry muffins! Since we had so many, I used a full cup of berries instead of the 3/4 cup that the recipe calls for. Recommended! This evening, I need to pick up some sugar and yeast to try out this recipe for muscadine wine! There is also probably some sort of apple, pear and blueberry tart in the future. Does anyone have a good tart recipe that doesn’t take the entire day to prepare?

Yesterday, Christy, Liz and I hit up the craft store for supplies for the Craft:08 Release Party this coming Saturday. I’m getting super-excited about it! We’ll have snax, drinks and a couple of fun crafty projects for folks to play with!

Oooh and this coming weekend is 3 whole days long! It’s probably a bad sign that I’m thinking about that before I’ve even gotten ready for work today, huh?

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In other treehugging news, Project: Dump the Shower Water on the Front Garden is going strong. I’ve never been so good about watering my plants before! The collards are getting big…it might be time transplant them to bigger pots this very weekend! I’ll post some pictures if we do that!

Woo! Part two of the Atlanta Indie City Guide is up! This part is all east side, baby!

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SuperCute! will be setting up at the East Atlanta Village Strut on September 20th! I’ll post again closer to the date, but I’m really excited about this show! The Strut is a great neighborhood festival. They always have a wonderful mix of vendors, and the show is in the heart of the Village, which means good food and coffee options are right there, too! See you there!

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We’ve hinted over the last couple of weeks about a top secret project, and now we can spill! SuperCute! submitted an Atlanta Indie City Guide to Indie Fixx, and the first installment was posted today! Woo! this was so much fun to put together!

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[photo by Lorigami]

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