It was my first blackberry cobbler so I had to call my mom in law to ask for a recipe. When we were staying with them I remember she had made a yummy one. It was really easy...You melt 1 cup of butter in a 9X13 baking dish. While it is melting in a 350 oven you mix 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of sugar, 3 tbl of baking powder, 1 tsp of salt and 1 1/2 cups of milk. Pour the mixture over the melted butter and then pour 1 1/2 pints of blackberries on top of that. Chris and Regan were complaining that I needed to sugar the berries or they wouldn't be sweet enough and after arguing with them about it for a few minutes I finally gave in and sugared the berries. Apparently 2 cups of sugar is not sweet enough! You bake it in the oven at 350 for about 45 minutes or until it is browned and the batter is cooked through. My cobbler cooked for about an hour and I had to hear "is it done yet?" for an extra 15 minutes. Penelope loved eating the fresh berries but unfortunately her tummy didn't and we had a bad night last night.
and a little Japanese maple tree. They had so many cool trees it was hard to decide. They even had a Japanese plum tree that I could use for Umeshu, a Japanese plum wine that I am dying to make. More on that in a later post... I really wanted a pomegranate tree because it reminds me of being little at my grandmas house. She had a huge pomegranate tree and we use to eat off it all the time. I hope it will get the sun that it needs here! We have been wanting to get some Japanese maples but the big ones are just so expensive so we found this little guy.
See my cute moon men? :p The pizzas were made on sourdough english muffins with chunky marinara, mozzarella cheese and olive eyes and mouths. I used some moon shaped cookie cutters to shape them. While I was making dinner I gave her some chickpeas (garbanzo beans) to snack on. This was her first time trying them and drum roll please...
as evidence that she indeed liked them I present to you Penelope licking chickpea juice (these were of the canned variety) off her plate.
Here she is trying to feed her dolly some of her scrumptious pizza. 
Apparently the pizza made her dolly very thirsty because she kept asking me for water and then would put her sippy cup to her dolly's mouth so she could drink. It was really cute. :) I guess I also need to teach Penelope about using napkins to wipe her face clean. 
My Jalapeno plant has 2 peppers on it. I was so excited when I saw this I had to take pictures and document it before something ate them. Like this deer that just happened to be relaxing about 20 feet from my garden.
I was out there watering and she just sat there and stared at me, drooling over my two peppers no doubt. Ever since we started murdering the slugs my little garden has been thriving. Even my Poblano plant that was eaten down to nothing but a stem is growing away. My Serrano is now twice the size it was when we planted it
and the Chocolate Mint has just about taken over the whole garden. 
I am really excited to plant some more veggies and herbs now. 
