Tomato Cobbler with Extra Corny Topping

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Recipe Review

Amazing flavor - the taste of summer on your fork - and better than any sweet cobbler I've ever tasted. And it turns out to be one of Mark Bittman's favorite recipes, too.

It didn't hurt that we have a great tomato crop, and could use peak ripeness tomatoes (mostly romas, some other heirloom varieties thrown in for fun). The tomatoes are quartered, and tossed with some corn starch, salt, and pepper. Larger tomatoes were cut into smaller pieces. I used a healthy dose of pepper, and am glad. I also was worried that it might be bland, and so added about 1/4 C fresh basil. It probably would have been just as good without.

The topping was easily prepared in a food processor. Flour, corn meal, butter, baking powder, b. soda, salt, an egg, and buttermilk. The instructions say it should come together as a ball, and if it doesn't, to add more flour. Ours didn't, we added another 1T flour, and it was still in a wet mess on the bottom of the food processor. We just went ahead, and it turned out great.

Like most recipes in this cookbook, there are many variations. Because we had fresh sweetcorn, I made the variation where you mix fresh corn with the cornmeal. It amped up the corn is a very good way.

I would gladly eat this most every day of tomato season.

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Comments

aj12754 - 5th September 2011
Oh yummmmmm. I cannot wait to try this.

Leeka - 5th September 2011
Wow, what an interesting idea and use of tomatoes!

Queezle_Sister - 5th September 2011
You will love it. This is one of those rare recipes where I've now emailed it to everyone I love in hopes they, too, will try it and have as good an experience as I. Note that there is a link!

Leeka - 5th September 2011
I have this book so I will definitely give it a go.

aj12754 - 5th September 2011
Thank you so much for mentioning the link! I completely missed it and was thinking I'd have to head on over to the bookstore today ... this is on the menu for tonight now.

southerncooker - 5th September 2011
This looks and sounds amazing. I've got to try it. Thanks for the link.

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