A Chocolate Fix for Dessert

Monday night.

Friends.

Food.

Cards.

Laughter.

Good times.

Tonight's new dessert was... Chocolate Cobbler. 

I mistakenly kept calling it Chocolate Crumble! 

Whatever. It was still very good!

CHOCOLATE COBBLER  (serves 6-9)

can be served warm or cool

What you need:

• 8X8 baking dish, greased
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup white granulated sugar
• 6T unsweetened cocoa powder, divided
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 6T unsalted butter, melted
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup milk chocolate morsels
• 1 & 1/2 cup of very hot water

What you do:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• In a medium bowl, combine together flour, white sugar, 3T cocoa, baking powder & salt
• In another bowl, whisk together milk, melted butter & vanilla
• Slowly add the liquids to the dry ingredients & stir to combine (batter will be thick)
• Pour into the greased baking dish
• In another bowl, combine the brown sugar & 3T cocoa powder
• Sprinkle over the batter, evenly
• Sprinkle on the chocolate morsels
• Pour the hot water over top... DO NOT STIR!
• Cook in oven for 40 minutes Remove from oven & let sit for at least 10 minutes before serving
• Serve with vanilla ice cream. 

Sandy from Texas (not the squirrel in SpongeBob!)

I do miss my friend, Sandy, from Texas. She lived here in NH for a bit & greatly influenced me. She was smart, funny & has a strong testimony of the Gospel. 

Alas, she missed her family too much & returned to Texas in 2005-06. 

She's a great cook too! Most of her meals were made using every person who would be eating it! 

All had something to do to bring the meal together.

Every year, when the fresh tomatoes get here, I try to make her Pico de Gallo recipe. C loves it!

B & I loved her Breakfast Burritos & for some strange reason, we never made them after she moved back  home! Somewhere along the line, I lost her recipe.

Thanks to our "Words with Friends" rivalry, I finally remembered to ask her for it & she obliged!

Breakfast Burritos:

(feeds 6)

• 6 large flour tortillas
• 10 eggs
• 6 strips of bacon
• Small bag of frozen hash brown cubes (maybe half… you can adjust as needed)
• Butter as needed for cooking hash browns
• Salsa of your choice (I use Pace)
• Cheddar cheese (grated)

• Cook bacon crispy then crumble up
• Cook hash browns (I use butter liberally) with crumbled bacon until golden brown
• Whisk eggs and add to the cooked hash browns
• Season… I use salt, pepper, cayenne, season salt, onion powder, garlic powder
• Don’t over cook egg mixture.

• Heat tortillas, add cheese and egg/potato mixture, roll up and eat!!

Super easy!

Thank you so much, Sandy!

Guess what we are having on my Monday night to cook for friends? Mmmmm!