Wiki Wednesday #329 - Ryouko Akane / 茜龍子
Who is Akane Ryouko?
 |
| Art from site |
I have a weird relationship with blueberries.
I'm easily swayed. I was really into watching Stardew Valley speedruns for a while. Bloobs were an important part of most Speedruns, so thinking of blueberries as bloobs made me like them more!
I love blueberry flavored things, but I just thought blueberries tasted like nothing and sadness.
I would put up with them when they were in season and good. Good ones were sweet and tasted vaguely of something. The texture wasn't great, but it was okay. The bad ones were sour and tasted of sour. The good ones that turned bad were just evil. The texture was like slimy paper towels. Not fun at all!!
I can handle frozen blueberries much better than fresh ones. The texture isn't an issue frozen! But then I found wild blueberries.
I don't think I've ever seen fresh wild blueberries in stores. The story I've heard is that they only grow in one specific part of Canada. Before I went on WW, I had one fruit I would regularly eat because I rationalized how healthy it was. Frozen wild blueberries. We would get giant bags of them!
And we still have a giant unopened bag in the freezer because I learned about things like frozen cherries.
Wild blueberries are great frozen. They are small and flavorful! They actually taste like something! And they stain your tongue the same way an artificially colored slushie would. But that's the funny thing. If I have another option for frozen fruit, I'll usually choose the other option.
I know I've had blueberry pie at at least one point in my life, but I can't actually remember it. I do remember the boxes of muffins that came with a can of wild blueberries. Those were great!
The main blueberry dessert in my family really wasn't a blueberry dessert. My grandma made a flag cake for the Fourth of July every year. It was a sheet cake (from a box) covered in cool whip with strawberries for the stripes and blueberries to represent the blue part.
I miss that cake. I've experimented with making cakes from boxes using only vegan ingredients. It doesn't really go well. It wouldn't be hard to find vegan cool whip substitutes and the berries are obviously vegan! But it's just so difficult to find a good egg substitute for boxed cake mixes. The best results all had some thing about them that just didn't really work out.
I just tell my mom every year... America is in time out this year. We'll make her a cake even she starts acting better and deserves a cake! (Will she ever be able to behave better and deserve a cake?! I do hope so!)
Oh, and the blueberry modern hard tack (Belvita?) was the best flavor. Blueberry is one of my favorite flavors. The blueberry flavor is definitely inspired more by the wild blueberries. I might end up trying to make blueberry flavored bean paste for moon cakes and daifuku.
No comments:
Post a Comment