Spoils of Summer - Cherry-Apricot Crisp

I tossed the fruit with a little lime juice, salt, and a little cornstarch. The crisp topping was almond meal, coconut oil, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. I can't remember if I also used a little bit of quick oats for the version that appears in this picture - we had a lot of cherries to use up and I made several batches of crisp! I baked at 350 - 25 minutes, maybe? Just until it gets bubbly.

Classic. I'm not going to say that I "forgot the attachment" (in the mental health world they say "I have an attachment disorder" - har, har), but one way or another, the adorable Dunkin' Donuts picture didn't make it up here on the first try. Let's give this another go.

Oh, and since I've already received a couple of comments on facebook re: the glove element to this shot: the gloves are not supposed to indicate that this coffee is a corrosive substance (any more than coffee already is). I just invested in a sweet new pair of Casabella water-stop gloves, and as the coffee, gloves, and thirty other pieces of clutter were hanging out together on the kitchen counter, I noticed that the gloves made the DD packaging look even purtier. So, I got them to pose for a picture together.

Not great, not bad, just... coffee. But, oh! the packaging!

Six to eight weeks ago, I stumbled upon the world of online free samples and sent my future self some tasty treats. The first free sample arrived last night: Dunkin' Donuts original blend coffee - medium roast. I brewed it up this morning, and I'm here to tell you that it's not bad, but I don't get what everyone raves about. When I opened up the packet I thought I smelled a little cinnamon - Mexican, not cassia - but the aroma didn't transfer to my cup o' joe. If the free sample box had come with a doughnut hole for me to set afloat in my coffee cup - like those hot chocolate packets that come with mini-marshmallows - that might have changed things. Does this coffee get attention because people are used to consuming it in between bites of frosted treats? A kind of publicly traded comfort food?

Anyway, I don't anticipate publishing many free-sample reviews in the future; but frankly, I love the colors of the accompanying picture and thought they might look nice against my blue background - I'm still having fun with all the formatting decisions I have to make. And posting this review gets me to post #3, which will be a charm! Tomorrow, I'm calling a re-match on a chili recipe that I tried last week, but essentially ruined (along with my husband's and my respective digestive tracts) by using an obscene amount of "El Pato" hot sauce to compensate for the fact that I had run out of chili powder.