Savory Tomato Cobbler

Sweet or savory? That is the question. There is so much to love about sweet Summer fruit! Watermelon, peaches, and berries are just a few of the many seasonal favorites. Biting into ultra-ripe peak-season fruit is the best. (I can practically feel the sweet juice trickling down my chin as I write this!) The only thing better than that is ultra-ripe, peak-season fruit baked with flour, sugar, and butter and served with vanilla ice cream or homemade whipped cream. Am I right? If the answer is yes, then you will love my Peach Cobbler with Bourbon Cream. It’s the perfect way to enjoy juicy Summer peaches!

Sweet Summer fruit is always wonderful. Often overlooked though are the savory fruits of Summer, like the tomato. Not today! Today is the day for the Summer vine-ripened tomato to shine.

When fully ripe and mature, tomatoes come in various colors, including yellow, orange, green, purple, and of course, red. The redder the tomato the more Lycopene it has in it. Tomatoes are the major dietary source of the antioxidant, Lycopene. Mostly found in the skin of the tomato, Lycopene has been linked to many health benefits including reduced risk of heart disease and cancer. Tomatoes are also a great source of vitamin C, potassium, folate, and vitamin K. They are 95% water, and the remaining 5% consists of mainly fiber and carbohydrates. In conclusion, not only are tomatoes delicious, but they are incredibly good for you too. Have I convinced you to eat more tomatoes?

Oh my, there is a lot of debate about the difference between a cobbler, a crumble, and a crisp! Before getting into the differences, let’s first talk about what they have in common. (Aside from being incredibly tasty!) All three are:

• Baked desserts with fresh fruit and are topped with some kind of pastry. When baked with the pastry, the natural sugars from the fruit’s juices create delicious pockets of flavor.
• Made, baked, and served in the same dish. (Here is the cast iron pan used in this recipe.)
• Best enjoyed when served warm.
• Often served with ice cream or whipped cream on the side.

In a nutshell, cobblers, crumbles, and crisps are equally outstanding and delicious. They are a wonderful way to celebrate and enjoy seasonal fruit throughout the entire year.

Without going into too much over analysis, here are the general differences between a cobbler, a crumble, and a crisp:

Cobblers have a biscuit topping over the fresh fruit. Usually dropped onto the fruit forming small rounds, the biscuits once baked, resemble the look of a cobblestone road, hence the name. Cobbler has no bottom crust.

Crumbles and Crisps

Crumbles and crisps are virtually the same things and oftentimes the names are interchangeable. They both refer to baked fruit desserts. Crumbles and crisps are baked until browned, crumbly, and crisp, as the names suggest. The difference between a crumble and a crisp from a cobbler is in the topping. The topping of a crumble or a crisp is usually a brown sugar streusel topping and sometimes it contains old-fashioned rolled oats. Crisps typically contain oats in the streusel topping while crumbles do not.

That’s the long and the short of it!

Very few people want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen during Summer. There is too much to enjoy outside! Therefore, rather than make biscuits from scratch (which you can certainly do), this recipe calls for a pre-made biscuit mix. All that is needed to add into the mix is a little milk (according to the box directions). This recipe calls for the addition of some cheddar cheese and chopped chives to the box mix. The time that is saved using box biscuit mix can now be spent walking, hiking, or enjoying time on the beach in the sunshine.

For those who are gluten-free, this recipe can still be enjoyed. (Yahoo!) Using this gluten-free boxed biscuit mix, the perfect savory tomato cobbler can be made. The cheddar cheese and chives still get added to the biscuit dough just as the recipe calls for. Substitute gluten-free flour when making the onion and tomato mixture for the cobbler filling. With these easy substitutions, this recipe is now completely gluten-free.

However you make your Savory Tomato Cobbler, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do here on the farm. Let me know what you think, I always love hearing from you!

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