THE BLUEBERRIES ARE "IN".....

Lazy cooking......perhaps the last super-hardy soup of the winter......a gumbo with blueberries, field peas, yellow corn, green beans, okra, tomatoes, dried floured date bits, garlic, onions, celery and various peppers, thickened with coarse white grits and Nebraska white corn flour....seasoned with shredded chicken, prosciutto, garum, Creole seasoning mix and every dried herb in the larder.....
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