Berry Bonanza

This evening we celebrated 

the pending sale of Aspen Meadows.

In preparation,

I picked a big bowl of blackberries.

All the big, black, plump ripe ones;

enough to fill my baking dish.

I tossed the berries with some sugar and flour 

and then made Jackie's cobbler topping.

She brought cobbler into work last Friday;

the BEST cobbler I have ever had.

She gave me her recipe.

Yes!

Heat oven to 350

Mix together:

1 cup flour

1 cup sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt.

Beat an egg

dump it into the bowl

and mix it up.

Spread it over the top of your berries.

Melt a stick of butter

Pour that over the topping.

Bake for 45 minutes

until it's golden brown.

Turn off the oven but leave the cobbler inside

Let it cool off slowly in the oven; door ajar.

The topping will be perfect

I promise.

Start the celebration with champagne,

cheeses,

shrimp,

smoked salmon

and good friends.

Sit outside on the viewing stand,

with the horses softly blowing as they eat their hay, below you

and the sun sinking behind the hills,

the oppressive heat of the day

mellowing into dusk.

Just before the dusk turns to dark,

gather the plates,

and settle inside the house.

And eat cobbler.