Me & Maribeth: Blog Cooking part 1

Introducing the Me & Maribeth cooking attempt number 1. Neither one of use are chefs,(MB kicks ass in the kitchen, but will not admit it to anyone) but we enjoy food and felt this would be fun. Actually, we watched Julie & Julia and felt inspired. Maybe someday there will be a movie about us. Uhm…probably not, but that’s OK.

So, I’m up first and my attempt at blog cooking will be Peach Cobbler. An absolutely delicious dessert that I have never eaten. MB thinks she may have tried it once but isn't sure.

I went online a couple days ago and got several recipes. One good Youtube video was by Scott Hargrove.

I will state that the recipe below is a smorgasbord of general ingredients and methods and in no way suggests that their recipes will look or taste like this. They are real cooks and we are not!
I started by:

...getting some peaches. About 6 cups worth. They say fresh peaches are the ones you want. We picked our own at Eastmont Orchards off of route 34 in Colts Neck.

Cut up the 6 cups of peaches and add ¼ cup water, ¾ cup sugar and ¾ brown sugar. Throw this in a pot and bring to a boil and then lower the heat and let simmer. Stir every so often and monitor it.

Meanwhile, combine 3 tbsp flour, ¼ cup sugar, a pinch of salt, 1 tbsp cinnamon, a pinch of nutmeg and if you have allspice, a pinch of that too.

When the peaches look soft on the edges yet firm in the center, toss the flour mixture in. At this point, keep mixing. The flour could burn on the bottom or sides of the pot. So I mixed this until it had a consistency of apple filling.

One of the recipes used cornstarch instead of lemon juice, but I didn’t have any. Take the whole, hot, yummy pot and put it in a casserole dish. Then I started on the cobbler.

In a bowl I mixed 1 cup floor, ¼ cup sugar, ¼ cup brown sugar, 2 tsp baking powder, ½ cup milk and 3 tbsp butter. It will start to look like cake batter. It didn’t taste too bad either. Then
I plopped the batter over the peaches.

(I looks pretty funny…kinda like…well…you know)

Anyway, I baked it at 400 for like 35 minutes, until the top looked golden brown and actually pretty good.

When it was desert time, we got some Vanilla Bean ice cream and here you go.

I would rate my cobbler a 7. (Ten of course being in the class with Hagen Daas or Toll House cookies) It was sweet! It tasted great, but this was sweet. The ice cream helped. I think I wanted the cob to be more cobby. Or crumbly. Or both. I’ll have to work on that. MB liked it, but did request more ice cream, so I think she would agree with me.

It lasted 3 days worth of deserts. On to the next…