Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'cobbler'
Alex's Birthday Dinner
You may recall that the worst meal I've ever cooked for people in my life was the meal I cooked for my friends Alex and Raife in March of 2007 (see here). Rereading that post, I don't think it was as awful as I remember it being; but the pressure was high because Alex, one of my closest friends from college, had never experienced my cooking (she'd only seen me defrost California Pizza Kitchen pizzas when we lived together) and I wanted to impress her. Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't. Luckily, Alex has a birthday. And now she lives in New York and so does our friend Raife who was also there at that disastrous dinner. So to celebrate Alex's birthday, which was in October, I invited them both over for a gigantic do-over. How did I fare?...
Elise's Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler
&t Isn't the internet great? On that same trip to the farmer's market (see Green Garlic Soup) I bought a bunch of rhubarb and a carton of strawberries. After having that soup for dinner, I wanted to make a strawberry rhubarb cobbler, only I didn't have a recipe. Enter the internet. I Googled "Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler" and what was the fourth result? My friend Elise's recipe. And guess what? As you can see by the picture above, it's a pretty fantastic recipe. You can read the recipe here. The only substitution I made was, because I didn't have any tapioca (and it was too late to go get some), I just used an equal amount of corn starch. That worked fine. Hot out of the oven and topped with a scoop of David Lebovitz's vanilla bean ice cream (which I had in the fridge), springtime desserts don't get much better. But you better act fast: strawberry and rhubarb season's almost over. Get thee to the farmer's market!...
