Living the Life

No Tuesday with Dorie entry for me this week, I'm out of town, but I will be back for next weeks recipe. In the mean time have a look at what all the other TWD bakers made this week at the TWD blogroll.

Another cobbler this week for Tuesdays with Dorie , this time a Cherry Rhubarb one, picked by Amanda from Like Sprinkles on a Cupcake . The recipe for this cobbler can be found in Dorie's Baking or on Amanda's blog. I had never worked with rhubarb before although we have it in abundance at the moment. Cherries is a different story, we all love them! I pitted them with a chopstick, a trick I read about in the Question and Problem section on the TWD site. It worked great so no need to buy a cherry pitter for this cobbler. The top differs from the mixed berry cobler, which has a rolled top, this one has little biscuits floating around in the fruit mixture. How did we like this one? Well to be short we didn't, the biscuit was the best part, the fruit we didn't care for, the rhubarb was overpowering and the taste of the cherries was lost. I think we just stick to fresh cherries next time. I might try this one with different fruit in the future, apples could be nice.

This weeks Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was picked by Melissa from It's Melissa's Kitchen and was right up my alley! Here is Holland we eat pudding after dinner, most of the time a more runny variation we call " vla ", we have it in vanilla, chocolate, coffee (Hopjes, after the coffee candies from The Hague), lemon, raspberry, banana etc. Then there are thicker variaties, bavarois and all kinds of yoghurts. Pies and such we eat when we serve coffee later in the evening, or during daytime coffee, not like in the States right after dinner. This pudding was more work than a boxed version, but it was really, really worth it. It was nice and smooth and the taste, WOW! Like a deflated chocolate mousse! I think I'll make smaller portions next time since it was very rich and not everybody was able to finish a portion. The recipe can be found in Dorie's Baking: From My House To Yours or on Melissa's blog.

Last week I wasn't able to do my Dorie bake but this week I made the Double Crusted Blueberry Pie picked by Amy from South in Your Mouth , You can find the recipe for this pie in Dorie's fabulous Baking: From My House To Yours or at Amy's site. With the prices of blueberries here being 2.99 euro for 125 grams, I figured out I needed about $20 in blueberries for this pie, now I like to stick to the recipe, but that was a little too much for me. So I used some more of the frozen berries that I also used for the mixed berry cobbler we baked 2 weeks ago. Shortening is also a thing that is hard to come by on this side of the pond so I used the cheapest hardest margarine I could find as a substitute, which worked out fine. I used my food processor to mix all the ingredients which made life so much easier. The pie came together very easy. The only thing I forgot was to sprinkle it with sugar but I don't think that that made a lot of difference. The taste was great, the crust ...