On 3/5/2015 8:11 PM, Derald wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote:

What is a 'cobbler'?
Basically, "deep dish" berry or fruit pie with no bottom crust and
a biscuit dough top crust. Whether "real" cobblers have bottom crusts
has been the subject of debate at (USA) Southern family reunions for
generations ;-) The crust, also, is more casual and less demanding than
pie crust, resembling biscuit dough much more than it does traditional,
butter-rich flakey pie crust. Regional variants abound. Although, I'll
eat damn-near anything with sugar in it, I regard guava cobbler as
unmatched for purely decadent but forgiveably sinful, pleasure. Some
people abuse ice cream and cobbler by combining the two—to my mind, a
practice as questionable as combining whiskey with Coca Cola. Of
course, I'm revealing my personal bias, he Ice cream and cake, pie
or cobbler _never_ should be mixed for the same reason that one adds
five only drops of water, and nothing more, into a 2-oz "shot" of
single-malt.
We have crumbles, too—in the Southeastern US, at least—known by a
variety of names and they are exactly as you describe. Again, there are
regional variants.

You're a sick puppy Derald. You can't eat cobbler without BlueBell
Homemade vanilla ice cream on top. BlueBell makes a very good "Southern
Blackberry Cobbler" ice cream too. My new favorite is "Chocolate Covered
Cherries." Outstanding ice cream.

I don't think I've ever eaten a guava, since you're in Florida you
probably grow your own. My favorite fruit is papaya, ate some for the
first time in Bangkok and fell in love with it. Bought one in the
supermarket yesterday and it is chilling before I devour it. Even the
dog likes papaya. We have a lot of guava plants in our neighborhood,
pineapple guava. Most don't get a chance to ripen fruit. Neighbors
across the street have four of the plants in their front flower bed.
She's from Puerto Rica and didn't realize the plants were guava. Guess
she had never picked her own and didn't recognize the growing fruit. I
keep hoping they will produce some ripe fruit one day.