Father's Day Treats

I have not been cooking many meals lately.....been a little busy, but I made a nice lunch today for a Father's Day celebration. Boy, I did not know how hard it was to get the pits out of cherries to use in a recipe! Also, THANK YOU ladies who scolded me for thinking of throwing out  leftover ham from Easter. It came in handy today in this pie.

Incredibly Easy (and incredibly good) Ham and Cheese Pie

1 1/2 cups cooked and chopped ham

1 cup shredded swiss cheese

1/4 cup chopped onion

1/2 cup Bisquick (or TJ's Buttermilk Pancake Mix!)

1 cup milk or half and half (I used the h/h)

2 eggs

pinch salt

pinch pepper

garnish with sliced green pepper and tomato (optional)

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Sprinkle ham, cheese, and onion in greased pie plate. Beat remaining ingredients with fork and pour into pie plate. Bake 35 to 40 minutes until knife comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes and garnish. 

Also, finally used our Williams Sonoma Desserts cookbook (gift from our wedding) to make a cobbler. I modified a bit because I didn't have enough cherries but then had too much topping, so it was thicker and more cake-like then crunchy cobbler, but still very good. Even better topped with vanilla ice cream.

Cherry Cobbler (originally blackberry cobbler)

Filling: 6 cups blackberries/cherries (I only had 4), 1/3 cup sugar (I used 1/4), 1 tbsp all purpose flour, 1 tsp finely grated lemon zest (omitted), pinch of salt

Topping: 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour, 1/3 cup sugar, 2 tsps baking powder, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 large egg, 1/2 cup buttermilk (I used h/h), 6 tbsp unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Toss the filling ingredients in bowl and pour in greased 2 qt baking dish. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in bowl. In separate bowl whisk together egg, milk, butter, and vanilla. With spatula combine wet with dry until you have a smooth dough. Drop in spoonfuls over filling and bake about 45 minutes, until fruit is bubbling and toothpick comes out of topping clean.