Brush up on your small talk, perusing the newspapers beforehand to see if their is any latest news your visits to the country kept you from. Grooming is a necessity so have your valet press and steam your outfits while you are riding around in the handsom so you shall appear your best at the door. A flower in the buttonhole is reccomended as well, try snagging on as your carriage rattles past a garden before anyone's the wiser.
Finally the most important piece of advice for any caller, make sure to sneak piles and piles of cat nip into your pockets. You're host can only demand the best of course:
This time it was my job to bring dessert. I lucked out a bit as the week before I had a crazy craving for cobbler and stumbled across something incredibly easy to make that tastes so good my husband gobbled it all up before I could turn around.
I call it my cherry crumble cobbler crisp mix thing (they're still working on the name down in R&D): 
Take a pie pan, a bigger one warrants two cans of cherries while a smaller one just one. Add the cherries and drizzle some white sugar over the top.
In a separate bowl mix together 1/2 a cup of flour, 1/2 a cup of brown sugar, a few teaspoons of salt, 1 TB cinnamon and we always add fresh nutmeg.
Cut in 1/4 a cup of butter slowly mashing it up to make the little crumble ball things (R&D again). Then just dump those on top of the cherries and bake at 375 for 30-40 minutes. Just add some whipped topping and you have a fancy dessert even a kitty could love.
What's your go to dessert when you don't have much time to slave away in the kitchen or want the stove on long?
Does anyone have a good cobbler recipe? The crumb thing is good and all but it isn't really cobbler and sometimes you just got to have cobbler.
mmm... looks tasty. I don't have a great recipe as I always end up adding WAY too much sugar. I guess that's what rhubarb will do to you.
ReplyDeleteOMGosh, this looks delicious! We don't do many deserts in our home due to my hubby being diabetic. I would die if I lived in your house - I love sweets!!
ReplyDeleteyummy. I'll have to try that.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cat too!
My go-to dessert is really similar and might be even easier!
ReplyDeleteTake a bunch of fruit
-can be canned
-can be fresh
-can be mixed
-I like berries the best
Make a thick layer of your chosen fruit in whatever size baking dish you have (grease it first with Pam or butter). Bigger dish, more fruit. Fruit is generally about 1-2" deep in whatever pan I'm using.
Take a box of Jiffy yellow cake mix and dump it on top of the fruit, breaking up the chunks. Don't use the whole box if you're using a small baking dish. The mix should just cover the top of the fruit, doesn't need to be even or anything. Take a stick of butter and slice pads of butter and plop on top all over. Half a stick for a smaller dish.
Bake at 350 or so for about 20 minutes or until you see the fruit bubbling and the top is crusty.
Seriously, this is the most forgiving recipe ever. There is never "too much" or "too little' of any one ingredient. Serve with vanilla ice cream.