My husband and I have only gone to this church since around February but it feels like we have been there forever and I really want to be a part of it. I love it there! It is just home!! I love the people there! I love my pastor and his wife!!! We are so blessed to be there and I want to give back! Isn’t it amazing that when people truly love you, you don’t have to be forced to do things, you just have this overwhelming desire to do things for others! That is the beauty of love…it gives and gives and receives in return in many surprising ways. I told my husband I wanted us to do this and I needed to make something like all the other ladies. The first thing that sprang to mind was a cobbler and Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream. Oh, Blue Bell is good!! It is better than homemade and you can only get it in Texas. They have been known to fly it all over the country! Yes, it is that good!!
Now, the mystery here to me is why I ever thought to do a cobbler. Before my grandmother died she tried to teach me to make dough for I know what had to be at LEAST 15 years!! I NEVER did get the hang of it. She tried in person, on the phone, I even video taped her one time….still I have never been successful! I am a very determined person so I decided one day “dough” was NOT going to get the better of me. I got out my grandmother’s recipe. She never measured so that is why I video taped her! She would guess at the measurements. I watched the video first. Then I got everything right down to the last bowl together! Then I began the “attempt’! It went from looking like the homemade paste we made when I was a little girl in Vacation Bible School that we used to make maracas out of light bulbs! I swear if I had a newspaper we would have had instruments. Then I added flour….when all else fails add flour and lots of it!! I added and added until it began to look not so soupy anymore. I began to knead it. I looked at the clump and then I began to beat it!! I ended up with what seemed hundreds of pieces that would not even STICK TOGETHER!!! Then my tears began to drop down into it…it was over for sure then!
I decided I was a big girl and there had to be another way. I got out my cookbooks that I trusted (which is about 5) and began to go through the “Breads” section of each one. None of them seemed to fit the bill. I then googled “No Fail Dough”. Eureka!!! Back to the kitchen I went! I can do this, it is NO FAIL! It failed!! It failed just as miserably as the first time when I tried it by scratch! Then this wonderful life saving thought hit me!!! All was not lost! Why on earth do you think they have cobblers in the frozen food section of the grocery store?? That was the answer for me. No dish to clean up and keep up with and cobbler better than I could ever hope to do it!
I still wish for days dough was not my enemy. Days it was in a harmonious relationship with me! Days when I could actually put two simple ingredients together and out comes buttery goodness that people ooh and aah over and say, “How on earth did you make something so scrumptious!” and they actually be talking about me and dough! Until then, I have to say thank you to the grocer in the frozen food section and depend on him for my rave reviews that I am tempted to take credit for!
Have a wonderful day, dear reader! I am off to buy “homemade” cobbler! See you next time!!
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