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dancerjodiThe weekend took forever to get here! Ah well, I'll enjoy it!
We met up with Fluffaderm and Gospog for dinner last night at their lovely abode. Damn, they have the coolest looking basement I've ever seen! I bow to their geekiness! It was nice to hang out with them, meet their awesome pets (oh my God, I wanted to take Huggy Bear home), finally see their home, and geek about all things gaming, star wars and home renovation. I made a WW dessert for us all and boy was it good! The recipe (we had it with light cool whip):
PEACH RASPBERRY COBBLER:
6 medium peach(es), halved, pitted and thinly sliced (about 1 3/4 lbs)
1 cups raspberries
3 Tbsp sugar, divided
1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp table salt
3 Tbsp light butter
1/2 cup fat-free sour cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp sugar
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Arrange peach slices in several layers in bottom of an 8-inch square baking pan; sprinkle raspberries over top. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar over fruit; set aside.
In a large bowl, combine flour, 2 tablespoons of sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well to combine. Add butter and mix with a fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add sour cream and vanilla; mix with a fork or a wooden spoon until dough comes together.
Place 8 large spoonfuls of dough on top of fruit in baking pan to make cobbler ‘dumpling’; sprinkle remaining teaspoon of sugar over dough.
Bake until fruit is tender and top of cobbler is golden brown, about 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before serving. Yields about 1/2 cup of fruit and 1 cobbler ‘dumpling’ per serving.
Notes
3 WW points per serving.
Our cobbler topping is lightened up with fat-free sour cream and light butter yet tastes as rich as the original. Feel free to substitute frozen fruit for the fresh fruit if desired – you’ll just need to thaw it first. (I used frozen fruit from Trader Joe's)
I'm working a 1/2 day today (flex time) so I'm going to head to Harvard Square to pick up some of the honey mask from Lush, some bathroom houseware stuff from Urban Outfitters (for our downstairs bathroom - we're going with a French/Can Can Girl theme based on a print we picked up) and then I'll head home to work in the yard for a bit, weather willing. I *heart* free time. I have a new gardening dilema, does anyone have a good ground cover that's low on maintanence? Our front yard is tiny, has no grass (previous owners riped it out), and its so weedy that mulching it isn't working out too well.
Totally unrelated, I've been pondering cancelling my subscription to our local paper http://www.dailynewstribune.com/ given their poor writing skills, the delivery problems I keep having, and saving some cash. I've been reading online in the meantime and I'm not sure yet what I want to do. It seems to take me less time to read the hard copy, and there is some state/national news that isn't covered on the website. Of course, anything really important I'd hear on NPR or catch in the Sunday Globe anyway. Hrm. I don't like supporting an organization that I think is the suck, but at the same time I want to get local news. I'll figure it out when my next bill comes.
We met up with Fluffaderm and Gospog for dinner last night at their lovely abode. Damn, they have the coolest looking basement I've ever seen! I bow to their geekiness! It was nice to hang out with them, meet their awesome pets (oh my God, I wanted to take Huggy Bear home), finally see their home, and geek about all things gaming, star wars and home renovation. I made a WW dessert for us all and boy was it good! The recipe (we had it with light cool whip):
PEACH RASPBERRY COBBLER:
6 medium peach(es), halved, pitted and thinly sliced (about 1 3/4 lbs)
1 cups raspberries
3 Tbsp sugar, divided
1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp table salt
3 Tbsp light butter
1/2 cup fat-free sour cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp sugar
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Arrange peach slices in several layers in bottom of an 8-inch square baking pan; sprinkle raspberries over top. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar over fruit; set aside.
In a large bowl, combine flour, 2 tablespoons of sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt; mix well to combine. Add butter and mix with a fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add sour cream and vanilla; mix with a fork or a wooden spoon until dough comes together.
Place 8 large spoonfuls of dough on top of fruit in baking pan to make cobbler ‘dumpling’; sprinkle remaining teaspoon of sugar over dough.
Bake until fruit is tender and top of cobbler is golden brown, about 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before serving. Yields about 1/2 cup of fruit and 1 cobbler ‘dumpling’ per serving.
Notes
3 WW points per serving.
Our cobbler topping is lightened up with fat-free sour cream and light butter yet tastes as rich as the original. Feel free to substitute frozen fruit for the fresh fruit if desired – you’ll just need to thaw it first. (I used frozen fruit from Trader Joe's)
I'm working a 1/2 day today (flex time) so I'm going to head to Harvard Square to pick up some of the honey mask from Lush, some bathroom houseware stuff from Urban Outfitters (for our downstairs bathroom - we're going with a French/Can Can Girl theme based on a print we picked up) and then I'll head home to work in the yard for a bit, weather willing. I *heart* free time. I have a new gardening dilema, does anyone have a good ground cover that's low on maintanence? Our front yard is tiny, has no grass (previous owners riped it out), and its so weedy that mulching it isn't working out too well.
Totally unrelated, I've been pondering cancelling my subscription to our local paper http://www.dailynewstribune.com/ given their poor writing skills, the delivery problems I keep having, and saving some cash. I've been reading online in the meantime and I'm not sure yet what I want to do. It seems to take me less time to read the hard copy, and there is some state/national news that isn't covered on the website. Of course, anything really important I'd hear on NPR or catch in the Sunday Globe anyway. Hrm. I don't like supporting an organization that I think is the suck, but at the same time I want to get local news. I'll figure it out when my next bill comes.
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Date: 2006-07-28 02:24 pm (UTC)ground cover
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Date: 2006-07-28 03:18 pm (UTC)Lush in Harvard
Date: 2006-07-28 03:42 pm (UTC)Re: Lush in Harvard
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