Foooooooodddddd.....

At The Unknown Housewife's Request, here is the recipe I ended up using last evening...

And I apologize, I called it cobbler, when it reality, it is a crisp...

The recipe was originally given to me for Fresh Apple Crisp, but I've since used it with fresh apples, fresh peaches, and a mix of fresh and frozen berries.

4 C fruit (If you use apples or peaches, peel and slice)
1 1/4 C brown sugar
1 C flour (plain flour)
1 C rolled oats (Good old Quaker brand "old fashioned" variety are my favorite)
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
2/3 C margarine or butter

Place fruit into bottom of 8x8 square pan. Mix remaining ingredients in a bowl, using a fork or pastry cutter until the shortening is cut into the flour etc, and it is a bit crumbly. Sprinkle over top of fruit. Bake at 375 F until the top is golden, and the fruit is fork-tender.

We eat ours "nekked", but you can enjoy it with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, or even some sweetened heavy table cream.

Farmie- the casserole was awesome! I made a few changes, being as I didn't actually have beef ready to be cooked...but I used cooked and shredded chicken, a can of pinto beans that I drained and rinsed, and it was very yummy...I think it would be awesome with the beef...a bit more robust and rich, but I think its a keeper.

I did get the giggles when I pulled it out of the oven to sprinkle some cheese over top (I'm a cheese FREAK!!!!!) and it really did look like Freddy Krueger's face...good thing I'm not repulsed when I know what's gone into something, but I thought, how cool would that be to serve for a Halloween bash? Call it "Zombie Skin" or something for those who don't know Nightmare on Elm Street in any of its incarnations.