Cheese Blintzes with Blueberry Sauce

     Every once in a while I'm particularly excited about a new recipe, so excited in fact that I must post it.  At the beginning of this year Corey and I escaped to the Grande America Hotel for an anniversary getaway.  At the buffet breakfast I discovered blintzes...yum.  I searched for a recipe and just recently tried it myself.  It's a bit involved, but worth it on a cold, slow Saturday morning.  Enjoy!

Cheese Blintzes with Blueberry Sauce (original recipe from food.com)

Blueberry Sauce

2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Blintzes

1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
5 eggs
2/3 cup milk
shortening
1 lb small curd cottage cheese
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
sour cream

Directions:

Make sauce: Wash and crush berries.
Mix in sugar thru salt and 1¼ cups water and put in saucepan. Bring to a boil and boil 1 minute.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
Chill.
Make blintzes: Combine flour and salt, add 1 cup water and mix until smooth.
Add 4 eggs and beat well.
Add milk and mix to a thin batter.
Heat a small amount of shortening in a 6" skillet.
Pour in ¼ cup batter and cook slowly until pancake is lightly browned on bottom and set on top.  
Turn out with browned side up.
Repeat, making about 18 pancakes.
Using a hand mixer, blend cheese through vanilla with remaining egg.  
Put a spoonful of cheese mixture in center of each pancake, fold in ends and roll up.
Brown in a small amount of hot shortening.  
Serve topped with a dollop of sour cream with cold blueberry sauce over the top.

Goofy-ness

     Yeah, we know how to have fun at our house.

Ode to Our Beloved Tree

      How could you not love a tree with a heart-shaped hole in it??  Why I get attached to trees is beyond me, actually it's my Mom's fault...she does it too.  Anyways, this is our great maple tree in our yard.  It was a big, beautiful tree when we moved in.  It's full branches dropped their bright yellow leaves and we loved playing in them and taking pictures of my little boys in them.   Last year a woodpecker made her home in our tree and laid eggs there.  We loved checking up on the eggs and then the baby woodpeckers. Then the tree slowly died branch by branch until they all became brown. 
     Corey and the boys did the job and did a good job at it too.  We're now in the market for a new tree to become attached to, to be planted next spring. If you have any suggestions for awesome shade trees let us know!!