Ruining Fresh Fruit

Friday I covered a meeting in Montgomery gladly, just for the chance to stop at Peach Park on the way home. (Chilton County, Alabama, for those of you who don't know how to find heaven in a woven fruit basket.) One gallon of blueberries, one rectangular basket of peaches, and a little box of plums. And, of course, my lunch of peach-caramel ice cream! Took peaches to office, where it was like Christmas come early. Took rest home and Saturday made a peach and blueberry cobbler with a pie crust top. Disappointing. A little too tart, and the top overcooked.

So tonight I made blueberry cobbler with the rest of the blueberries. Found recipe online that swore it was the best ever .... right. Given last effort was too tart, used all the sugar, but now this one is almost cloying sweet. Lockjaw sweet. Used a crescent roll crust, which was okay but a but underdone on the bottom while it got to the outer edge of brown on the outside. Of course to some, underdone dough is a plus, but not me. I was looking for fabulous and got, well, a waste of good blueberries. The guys did eat half of the gallon already, and I froze a measly pint.

I still have a layer of peaches and some plums. The plums are too ripe to cook, but we'll see about the rest of the peaches. One more cobbler recipe to go, and it REALLY looks yummy!