Family Friendly Frugal Meals - Peach Cobbler....

This is the third week I’ve been ill and it’s really starting to get me down a bit now – I have no energy, I feel bleugh and I can’t stop coughing! The Dr has just signed me off work for a week and prescribed me with some stronger antibiotics and some steroids so fingers crossed I should be sorted soon…. This weeks meal plan reflects my lack of energy as I’ve cut as many corners as possible 😉

Monday – Sunday Dinner leftovers – I cooked extra potatoes and yorkshire puddings yesterday so all I had to do today was zap them in the microwave, cook some veggies and serve with the leftover chicken from dinner yesterday.

Tuesday – Naan bread pizza’s with potato wedges.

Wednesday – Macaroni cheese

Thursday – Slow cooker chilli

Friday – Chicken and mushroom pasta

Saturday – Jambalaya

Sunday – Sunday dinner with roast lamb, Yorkshire puddings, roasties and veg.

I’m in real need of comfort food at the minute so we’ve just had a lovely peach cobbler and custard for pudding – it was delicious and even in my energy depleted state (yep, feeling very sorry for myself), it was really easy to make….

Peach Cobbler

Ingredients

1 cup of sugar

1 cup of plain flour

1 cup of milk

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

2 cups of fruit (any fruit – frozen, fresh or tinned).

It doesn’t really matter if you use the American cup measurement, you can just use a normal coffee cup. The main thing is that the quantities are equal.

Mix the sugar, flour, baking powder and milk in a bowl.

Next for the fruit, we used peaches today but in the past we’ve used apple and cinnamon, pears and chocolate chips and frozen forest fruit mix. We’ve never had a combination that hasn’t been delicious. Whatever fruit you choose, just layer it at the bottom of a large greased oven proof dish.

Pour your batter mix over the fruit and bake at about 180c for around 35-40 minutes. You can tell when it’s cooked as it looks all golden brown on top. Unfortunately, ours tonight looked less golden than it should as I trusted Mr Frugal to keep an eye on it while I had a quick bath but he took it out as soon as the oven timer went off at 35 minutes. It tasted gorgeous despite its alight anemic appearence….