SIMPLE BLUEBERRY COBBLER

There are probably a million recipes out there for

cobblers and everyone has their favorite. This is

a cobbler recipe for anyone that likes easy, 

delicious & fast when making dessert. It

is still made entirely from scratch, though-

No convenience packaged items here!

There are only 4 ingredients besides the fruit

and one of them is mayonnaise. I know, it

sounds weird, but just trust me and give it

a try. There's no mixing and measuring

baking powder, salt, etc and it really is

as simple as mixing the 4 ingredients

and crumbling it over part of the fruit

and the rest over the top. For a change

of taste you could easily change the

sugar in the recipe to brown sugar.

Grab the best real vanilla ice cream you

can afford, place a scoop of it next to the 

warm cobbler & get ready to serve up seconds.

(Just don't tell anyone how easy it is!)

SIMPLE BLUEBERRY COBBLER

INGREDIENTS 

4 cups fresh or frozen (do not thaw) blueberries

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 cup mayonnaise

DIRECTIONS

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Place 1/2 the blueberries into an 8 inch square baking 

dish. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, 

and cinnamon. Stir in the mayonnaise until the mixture 

resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle 1/2 the mixture over 

the top of  1/2 the berries in the pan, then pour the 

remainder of the berries over that. Sprinkle the rest 

of the crumble mixture over the top.

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, or until 

the top is lightly browned and blueberries are bubbling.

The crumble will be soft at this point, if you like

yours more like a crisp then you will want to bake

it a bit longer so the topping gets a little browner.

Excellent served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

HIGH FIVE THURSDAY

Remember the Alaska Airlines contest called

Paint the Plane? The winner was a girl right

here from town. My brother knows the family

so they asked him to photograph the first 

flight of the newly painted plane as it flew 

into town. Most of the schools took the kids

over to watch it fly in. What an inspiring

thing for the younger kids to see!

I love this shot he took of her. She is the first person ever

to have her signature on an airplane. It will be fun to see

where this takes her in the world of graphic arts. The sky's

the limit if you work hard and aren't afraid to go out & try!

Neat shot he caught of the plane touching down--see the

bits of smoke from the wheels?

Keep an eye out for this plane at your airport--it's cool!

BACK HOME AGAIN

We are back in Alaska (thank goodness!) and I

am still trying to catch up on some rest. Seattle

was fun, busy, exhausting, smelly and beautiful

all at the same time. My camera is dying a slow

and painful death and it decided this trip to eat

every set of batteries I put into it.

Normally I take pictures of everything I see, 

but I ended up with just a handful out of all 

that we did.

My friend Jane and her sons picked us up

at Seatac and that was so amazingly nice

of her considering she hates to drive on

the freeway. She made a delicious lunch

for us and surprised some other good

friends of ours by inviting them also and

telling them she had a surprise for them.

Good food and good friends! Jane also

makes the best Mochas on the planet

and she treated me to one of those.

Everybody knows what this is, right? The

famous Space Needle in downtown Seattle.

It was built in 1962 and has 2 restaurants--

one at the top and one in the middle. We 

rode the elevator to the top and the view was

spectacular! The restaurant at the top slowly

rotates so that while you dine the scenery

changes constantly.

We also went to the Seattle Aquarium, the

Woodland Park Zoo, Pike Place Market,

Southcenter Mall, Zoopas, Mongolian

Grill, Pacific Science Center and The

Spaghetti Factory.

In between all of this we squeezed in

activities at the academy that we were

there to visit. We left Seattle on Monday

and went up to visit my mom and dad

for another week.

My old dog Reggie. A friend of mine has him

and he just turned 12 1/2 years old. He is

a huge German Shepard and one of the

best dogs we ever owned. I am afraid his

age is catching up with him now though.

He couldn't really hear us talking to him

and his eyes are mostly blue, but once he

smelled us he was rubbing and pushing

on us just like he used to do.

My friend's little boy and our Godchild.

Oh, he isn't cute or anything, is he?

I have never met him so I figured I

better make a trip over there and 

introduce myself. As you can tell he

 was totally impressed.

We ended the trip by getting most of

my cake supplies and things we can't

get here. Now I'm done shopping for

quite awhile. Whew.

When I got home I went to the grocery

store down the road and as I was

putting the groceries in my car a dog

in the truck next to mine was barking

like crazy. I looked to see what he was

barking at and there were 2 Humpback

Whales blowing right next to the store

parking lot.

Yep, it's good to be back.