Sunday night I whipped together a fast cobbler, which I've never made before, and it meets the fresh produce theme of this week's challenge, so while it's a bit of a cheater (bisquick!), it definitely counts.
Peach Blueberry Cobbler
2-1/2 pounds peachs, peeled, cored, and sliced (or 2.5 pounds frozen peach slices, thawed)
1 pint blueberries
1/3 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons cornstarch
1 Tablespoon each fresh grated lemon zest and juice
Heat oven to 400. In bowl, combine peaches, blueberries, sugar, cornstarch, lemon zest and juice, pour into 11 X 7 baking dish coated with cooking spray.
For topping, combine 2 cups baking mix (bisquick) with 1/2 cup milk. Drop over fruit and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon sugar.
Bake til bubbly and topping is lightly browned and bicuit-y.
Was the recipe easy to follow?
Easy and fast. Peeling peaches is a pain, there's no denying it, but the payoff is worth it. And bisquick - what can I say? There's a "heart-healthy"or something version with no transfats, and it just makes life easier. It just does (waffles, pancakes, biscuits - in a flash). So take away my authentic cook label. I don't care. I can make homemade, but sometimes easy is, well, easy.
Did it taste good?
It did, though I think the zest made it too tart. You add lemon juice to peaches because they brown easily, and to cut the sweetness a bit. But still, it was a tad tarter than I wanted. We also didn't have vanilla ice cream or even cream, which might have countered the tart. I'd leave out the zest next time, I don't even think I did a full tablespoon. But it's proven to be a very nice breakfast option this week!
Kid friendly?
Oddly, she won't eat it. Dunno why. Totally rejected. Maybe too goopy.
Would I make it again?
Definitely!
3 comments:
Fresh peaches sounds awesome to me right now. I think I saw somewhere that if you slit the peach skin and then boil them really quickly, the skin comes off easily, but don't quote me on that.
Yeah, that's exactly it. i almost put the directions for peeling peaches in, but was too lazy. You cut an X on the bottom of the peach, put it in a boiling water for a few minutes (<3, you see the edges of the X start to peel away), remove the peach with a slotted spoon, and immediately dunk in an ice water bath to stop any cooking. Then, the skin mostly slips right off.
This requires a pot of simmering water, a bowl of iced water, timing, slotted spoons, an open trash can nearby, plus bowl for the finished product, and working fairly quickly. It's not hard, but perhaps I am a lazier cook than I like admitting. It's tedious and slightly messy. But definitely the easiest way to peel a bunch of peaches. I could put 4 in my simmering pot, get the water iced, pull them out, put 4 more in, and have the first 4 peeled and chopped by the time the next 4 were ready. Basic assembly line stuff, you just have to keep moving.
I wonder if this recipe would work with nectarines? I totally want to try it out!
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