red, white, & blue cobbler

this quick and easy dessert is perfect for July 4th weekend; add a little ice cream and it’s red, white, and blue! personally, i think cobbler makes a great breakfast too.

adapted from Allrecipes.com

serves 6
4 Tbsp. butter
¾ cup all-purpose flour
¾ cup sugar
1 tsp. baking pwder
1/3 tsp. salt
¾ cup milk (I used 2%)
3 cups sliced fresh berries (I used strawberries and blueberries)
1 Tbsp. sugar

to make your cobbler:
*adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and preheat to 350 degress
*put butter in your dutch oven (or at least 2-quart pan), set in oven to melt butter and then remove
*whisk flour, ¾ cup sugar, baking pawder, and salt in a small bowl. Add milk; whisk to form a smooth batter.
*pour batter into the dutch oven (with butter), then scatter fruit over batter, and sprinkle with 1 Tbsp. sugar
*bake until batter browns and fruit bubbles (50-60 minutes)

serving suggestion:
serve warm or at room temperature with ice cream or whipped cream

brownie eureka

last week we made brownies in the dutch oven. they were the most delicious, moistest brownies i have ever made, despite having come from a BOX. let me explain; after years of trying to bake cakes, brownies, cookies etc. in my shoddy oven with lackluster results, i had all but given up.

for some reason the temperature never stays consistent and i wound up with desserts that looked as though i baked them in a microwave. i can’t tell you how humiliating it is to make a cake (from a box) and it doesn’t turn out. short of purchasing a new oven, i had a hunch that the dutch oven could turn all this around for me. and it did.

we used the Ducan Hines Decadent Double Fudge Brownie mix. the brownies were beautifully consistent, and delicious. thank you, Duncan Hines. thank you, Le Creuset.