PEACH COBBLER

peaches! this tree + our kitchen = the need for peach cobbler! if you are not awesome enough to have a peach tree, you will just have to use the unremarkable peaches from the market. Ours are white peaches, but orange/red are usually used. either will be [insert clever adjective for good]. while we were picking them, one car drove by and asked for a peach, and another asked if we were selling them! so if times are tough for you in this recession, grow a peach tree. simple!

we used six peaches, but ours are slightly small (not genetically modified), so you might want four or five. when sliced, you should have around four to five cups to taste.

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• 1/2 cup white sugar [if you waaant]
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 4 cups fresh peaches - peeled, pitted and sliced
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder [nooo!]
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons shortening [pffft, use butter!]
• 1/2 cup milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

3.[explanation below] To Make Peach Filling: In a large saucepan combine 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon. Stir in peaches and lemon juice, tossing until peaches are evenly coated.

4. Cook filling over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Boil 1 minute. Pour mixture into an ungreased 2 quart [see note] casserole dish. Keep mixture hot in oven while you make topping. [or not!]

2. To Make Topping: In a medium bowl combine flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix thoroughly, then cut in shortening until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Add milk and stir until mixture is evenly moistened.

5. Remove peach filling from oven [Why?] and drop dough onto peaches in 6 equal-size [unnecessary] spoonfuls.

6. Return cobbler to oven and bake 25 to 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown.

recipe from: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/fresh-peach-cobbler-i/detail.aspx

we added some nutmeg, unmeasured dash, in addition to the cinnamon. also it seems quite silly to keep the filling warm in the oven. just make the topping first! by the by, the batter is gooood. sort of like really addictive pancake batter. we added a small handful of oats. they give a nice texture, but it never really got golden brown, cooked, but more of a pasty, oaty color. it looks strange! i dont know if oats are to blame. did we sabotage our own cobbler? maybe! D: use only one tsp baking powder (this could also have been the problem).


we used a 1.6 quart dish, and the cobbler was tall and had little area for topping. make sure to use a 2 quart dish!

finally, the shoogar! the cobbler is pretty sweet. three of us in this household think it's at the ideal sweetness level. but one straggler, thinks it is too sweet. she would prefer to taste the natural flavor of fresh peaches more. if you have a sweet tooth for the syrup, keep it the same, but you could easily adjust the recipe to your taste! the peaches also came out slightly mushy, so boil them a bit less than the instructions say; unless you like them mushy!

This is a delectable, comforting desert! it only has three tablespoons of butter, so it is a healthier alternative to more fattening comfort foods. we ate the whole thing in about five hours... please don't be alarmed or scared away by the photos, because it is incredibly delicious! we warned: we make ugly, tasty food!

Enjoy!

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Prologue (or should we say problog?)

Welcome to our blog!

We are two sisters in a kitchen. its true. here we are. together. humor. cat. this summer we both became rather (mm yes, quite) inerested with a "t" in food! baking and cooking. after spending half our lives watching cooking tutorials on youtube, we decided to actually make something :D (aah thats a crooked smile!) after many adventures and our foodie brother's encouragement, we became absorbed by the idea of a FOOD BLOG! and a baby was born! .....what?

keep in mind that we are both vegetarians, so there will very rarely, if ever, be meat. some recipes will be vegan! our food may venture into treacherous realms that cannot be escaped or recovered from, but we will post those pictures/recipes too!

we usually make.. ugly... tasty food. some food blogs are created by master chefs (see foodwishes and titli nihaan on youtube), but this! this is whole new experience! we are making real food for everyday people. and that brings us to the title. we have a cat named Norman (otherwise know as norms, normy, naams, snarf, cat, and beast). he is maGNIFICENT (warning: unexpected caps! ) we have been referring to him as "the kitty of our lives" for so long that we forgot its affiliation with Cotton. when picking a title for the blog, we combined these two major influences to create "the kitchen of our lives"!! overwhelmed with excitement, we created the blog without considering our lack of originality. ah well! the "lively kitchen" is a play on words, really.

also! we will attach a song that we listened to while cooking to set the mood. we home you enjoy our humor, music, and food!

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