"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."

"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."-Albert Einstein

Welcome to Poor Girls Pantry

How many of us wander into the kitchen often repeatedly opening the refrigerator and pantry doors hoping for ingredients to magically appear only to continually discover the same meager findings? Life often hands us circumstances that test our character and stretch our budgets. Posessing an ounce of creativity and a smidgin of sensibility makes all the difference in the world when desperately digging for new and interesting ways to disguise and decorate ground beef.

I recall incrediously the many times my mother magically materialized mouthwatering meals from meager findings for five children on a modest budget. I recently found myself tapping into her talented techniqure uncovering a treasure that I had not realized I posessed. Instead of pondering the potential for something more, I began to find quality in the questionable. These modest times had inadvertenly taught me to be incredibly resourceful and I embraced my unique ability to make something out of nothing. So, giving tribute to a remarkable Mother who taught me to see beyond the subltle, let us embarq on a journey together as I ponder my peculiar gift and open a passage into the poor girls pantry.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Scrumptious Shortcut Cobbler

This recipe was inspired by a connoisseur of creative concoctions.  He brought to me a fabulous fruit fusion  to which the meager mind would appear lifeless, insipid, grotesque even in appearance, but to the creative mind, the imaginative mind, the visionary....if you will....there before me, was a superb synthesis of succulence eagerly awaiting inception.  Thus evolved the Scrumptious Shortcut Cobbler.......

Ingredients
Select one or any crazy combination of fruits......go crazy with the fruits!  Includes some scrumdelishous (honestly, they're just words, they don't control us) mix of many berries (straw, blue, black...), peaches fresh off my friends tree peeled and sliced all soaking in their own sweet juices for few days, a combination that is sure to please the palate.
You will need at least 1 and 1/2 cups (more or less depending on how fruit filled you prefer).
Note: In the freezer I found some Disaronno Italian Liquer which I added to the fruit mixture during the soaking process merely to enhance their essence.

Batter
1 stick of butter
1 self rising flour
(or 1 cup all purpose flour w/1 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt)
1 cup sugar
1/2 evaporated milk
1/2 cup water

My seasoned southern friend supplied this shortcut batter recipe.  It is simply scrumptious.
Quite simply you.......
melt butter in a 2 quart casserole in 350 degree pre-heated oven (not too long....avoid overheating)
combine 1/2 cup evaporated milk with 1/2 cup water and 1 shot of liquer for you and one for the mix (just testing your attention to detail) or to taste (one cup liquid total.....use less water if you use liquer)
while butter is melting, mix dry ingredients together in large mixing bowl, hollow out the center and pour liquid mixture into dry mix gradually stirring to avoid lumpage until all ingredients are mixed well
remove casserole dish from oven carefully, it's hot!
drizzle batter into melted butter but DO NOT stir
drop fruit gently throughout batter but DO NOT stir
repeat after me...... don't stir! seriously, don't stir!
place into pre-heated oven and bake "until it looks good"....I know, these are the directions from a skilled surveyor.... I require minutes also so, bake for approximtely 30 minutes until sides are golden brown or sides are crispy.
Top with creamy vanilla ice cream..........it's simply scrumptious!
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