Recipe #3: Blackberry Cobbler

The blackberry harvest turned into blackberry cobbler. For breakfast! Yes, as I sit here adding to a blog about good health, I baked cobbler for the girls and myself for breakfast yesterday morning! I believe in being healthy, but I also realize that we only have one go with this life - so make it a good one!

I found the original recipe on Allrecipes, but my modifications are shown in red :

Easy Batter Fruit Cobbler

• 4 tablespoons butter 3 T. butter
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 cup old fashioned oats; 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 3/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup white sugar; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 2 T. agave nectar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups of sliced fresh peaches or nectarines, or whole blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or a combination of fruits (or a 12-ounce package of frozen berries)
• 1 tablespoon sugar

I have a thing for whole grains - whole wheat flour, oatmeal, wheat germ. You can substitute these in almost any recipe and the proportions just depend on what you're baking. My recipe modifications, in my opinion, made cobbler perfectly suitable for breakfast... and the girls would agree!

Blackberry Picking

This morning's outing was to Lawson Brothers Farm. As you can see, it's blackberry season. You cannot imagine the taste, the feel, the look of these fresh, hand-picked berries. The girls, Gran, and myself ventured there bright and early with the hope of beating the heat and the crowd. Mission accomplished! We were the ONLY pickers and the clouds hung around to shade us. In all honesty, we would have stayed and filled several more containers except for the fear that my little berry-eating monsters were going to make themselves sick from the bottomless bowl of fruit at their fingertips!

Look local. Find places where you can get fresh food that is grown with rain, sunlight, and a little love. Yes - there were bugs on the plants. Yes - they were eating berries. But they were alive to enjoy it, much like the four of us were!

Hmmm.... now what shall we bake with this harvest? Ideas? Anyone?