Little secret about me: one of my weekend rituals is to watch cooking shows every Saturday and/or Sunday morning for my dinnertime inspirations for the upcoming week. First, I tune to my local news station to catch the seven day forecast. That's important this time of year, as summer afternoons can be filled with quick rain showers and thunderstorms. My husband doesn't mind standing next to the grill in the rain, but I do. So once I get an idea of the weather for the week, I'm ready to sit like a lump on the couch and plan my meals.
So why am I so bad? Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond wasn't on for 5 minutes and I was up making one of her recipes. It happened so fast I didn't take pictures! My husband came down as I was putting the cobbler in the oven, I told him how simple this recipe was, and it hit me. This was the perfect recipe for the blog!!
I've got a finished shot for you, but since Ree does such a good job with her photographs and documenting her recipes, I figured I didn't really need to recreate that here. A link to her loveliness will do just fine, with a finished shot of my cobbler.
Cobblers can be scary, especially if you use a more difficult base. Ree points out in the episode that she makes the cobbler that it can be a lot of work should you choose to lay a pie crust over fruit, or if you use biscuit dough (we don't buy the less work, boxed mix of course!) so her recipe is super simple. The hardest part? Waiting an hour for it to bake,
So here it is:
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar (I use turbinado for the extra flavor)
1 cup milk (she used whole, I used 3/4 skim 1/4 half and half)
1/2 stick melted butter
Mix, pour in greased baking dish. Scatter over top your fruit (she used blackberries but I had blueberries in the house so I went with that, as it was an emergency and I had to get this in the oven immediately.)
She sprinkles 1/4 additional sugar on top (I found that to be too much, so I used less) and into a 350 degree oven it goes for about an hour. Done!
Not only is is a simple dessert recipe for a busy evening (pop it in the oven while you are eating) but it's a quick dish to make when you have unexpected company coming; 5 minutes of prep and it bakes while you are getting ready.
Love it! My township is having Fourth of July fireworks tonight, so a blueberry dessert is just the thing to get the holiday week going. If I had strawberries to add too....yummm. May need to hit the farm market later today and make another one. I am so bad.
Here is the link to view the recipe from it's original source, the lovely Ree Drummond:
Ree Drummond's Blackberry Cobbler Recipe
My lovely cobbler, fresh from the oven:
Happy eating!
Kathy
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