I’m always looking for recipes—for things that I can cook, bake, grill, sauté, etc. that promise to be tasty, easy and cheap. So a couple of weeks ago I stumbled across a recipe that made my mouth water. I saved it to make on one of my rare days off.
Well, yesterday was one of my rare days off—the first of August, a full day off after an excruciatingly long July toiling and trying to sell cars to reluctant and skeptical customers. For me the process of trying a new dish, tweeking it and making something really tasty is actually relaxing. It’s using my brain in a different way and creating something that Mrs. CB and I are going to enjoy.
This is a simple dessert using fresh berries and biscuit dough. A “slump” is a term that was used in Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island in colonial days to describe a cobbler made with local, seasonal fruit topped with dumplings and then steamed. This version goes to the step of baking the dish to set the topping and brown it.
The only thing that would make this dessert better is a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of the still warm “Slump”. (By the way, you can call this either Blueberry Slump or Blueberry Cobbler, they’re pretty much the same. I just like the name “Slump”; it’s a little bit funky). Continue reading
