Day 19 - Simply Simple

My first day off! Again my lil Rico has no sense of sleeping in. He was all wide eyed clawing at his doors trying to wake me up so he could eat. I was definitely not expecting to be up for breakfast this early in to my vacation.. So after getting him all settled, I decided to go down and get myself something to, bad idea. I saw that the fridge was unorganised, so I started to clean that out. Than I went to put something in the freezer, bad idea. So 3 hours later both were cleaned up, and I had everything out and ready for dinner. I made some Cesar salad dressing, I am not a fan of mayonnaise or lemon based Cesar dressing so we make our own. I got a list together of what I would need to pick up for the 3 cakes I have to make, and I ended up a little more ahead than I had planned which is always great.

Simply Simple means something that can be baking while eating dinner or during the clean up. It is something that doesn't take a whole lot of preparation and can be done without getting groceries (usually) There are a lot of recipes that I know of like this, if I am entertaining I don't want to be in the kitchen. So while going through these recipes I remembered that I am doing the best of the best. My grandmother wins this one again with Blueberry Grunt. Its is cooked down blueberries (or your favourite kind) that you than drop dough balls into and than it all cooks on the stove for a few minutes.

Blueberry Grunt

4 cups of blueberries

½ cup sugar

½ cup water

Put blueberries, sugar and water in a pot, cover and boil gently until there is plenty of juice

Dumplings:

2 cups flour

4 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sugar

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon shortening

¼ cup to ½ cup milk

Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into bowl. Cut in the butter and shortening and add enough milk to make a soft biscuit dough. Drop by spoonfuls onto hot blueberries. Cover and do not peak for 15 minutes. Serve hot

Tips:
I double the berries to make sure there is lots of juice for a sauce on the dumplings.

Make sure you have lots of juice from the berries.

For the dumplings, mix everything together except the milk.

When adding the milk, you want the dough to become the consistency of cookie dough.

Drop the small dough balls into the pot while the berries are simmering and put the lid on tight.

After 15 minutes the dumplings will be cooked and will have doubled in size.

Grunt is best served hot.

You can eat it plain, with ice cream, or with milk.

Tips:

Other than doubling the berries, this dessert is very straight forward and simple.

My awesome Baking Caddie for all my tools, and a sleek looking pair of black pumps with a nice little frill on top of the toe.



I really hope Rico lets me sleep in a little longer tomorrow, Although I do have a list of cleaning to get around to, maybe he is just trying to help me ;P.

Happy Baking!

Sey