Blueberry Soup

I've been looking for a reason to use my new stick blender, so when some friends came over for lunch and cheap blueberries started showing up everywhere I decided to make a dessert soup. As a jumping off point I used Rachael Ray's recipe for blackberries in star anise syrup over lemon sorbet, but I did a lot different.

I boiled 1/4 cup sugar in 3/4 cup water with a couple pieces of broken star anise, then added a pint of blueberries and cooked for a little while longer, about a minute, until some of the blueberries had burst. Let that sit to cool, removed the star anise, then blended it all up with my immersion blender. It tasted really flat at this point and I didn't have any lemon juice so I drizzled in some balsamic vinegar and added a couple pinches of salt. Stuck it in the fridge until we were ready for it, then served it with a dollop of lemon sorbet.