Cobbler and collards...

Looked up the cobbler recipe when I got home. It's really easy. Here's the original recipe:

1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup self-rising flour
3/4 cup milk
1 28oz. can sliced peaches in syrup, undrained

Preheat oven to 350. Place butter in deep baking dish & place in oven to melt. In a bowl, combine sugar & flour. Slowly add the milk, stirring with a whisk, so as to avoid lumps. Pour this batter over the melted butter, but DO NOT STIR. Spoon fruit on top and gently pour in syrup. Again, don't stir it; the batter will rise during baking. Bake for 30-45 minutes.

We wanted to do a berry one, so I think I said this before, but I just used 1 21oz. can blackberry pie filling, 1 cup frozen blueberries, thawed, and 1 cup frozen raspberries thawed. The recipe also said that if you wanted to use fresh fruit, start with two cups of fruit, 1 cup of sugar, and 1 cup of water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil & simmer for 10 minutes.

The recipe didn't say what constituted a "deep baking dish" so I used a rather deep, round casserole dish (maybe 10 inches in diameter). Next time I'm going with a 13 x 9 pan because that's what people online suggested. Mine took closer to an hour to bake because it was so deep. I was surprised, but the batter really did rise (I guess because it used self-rising flour. I read disastrous stories about using regular flour.) I might try the canned peaches next time, but some people suggested not using all of the liquid in the can.

And Courtney asked about where the ham hocks are...in the eastside Walmart, they're actually not with all the other nice pork cuts on the wall, but in one of the refridgerated bins in aisle. They also had some that weren't refridgerated, but that just freaked me out for some reason.