Embracing my Inner Grasshopper
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Melissa and I are grasshoppers.
I saw last week that we would be getting strawberries and cherries in our next produce shipment and my thoughts turned to cobbler. We live in California; there will be cherries aplenty for a couple months at least. Time enough for jam. When Melissa picked up our produce box, I realized that even a fleeting thought of doing jam this time instead of cobbler was futile. We had enough fruit for two individual-sized cobblers.
For the crust, I made a butter cookie dough, a tactic suggested by the good folks at Cook's Illustrated. This always sounds better than the physical reality, as the crust becomes quite sweet. One can (and should) adjust the sugar mixed with the fruit, but that is easier to say then do when you are faced with some indeterminate amount of strawberries and cherries. In truth, the fruit could have used much less sugar. Be that as it may, it was still quite edible, especially served still warm with vanilla ice cream on top.
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