I hate to say it, but this was the first recipe of Dorie's that I just flat out did not care for - at all! I thought the day would never come when I would dislike, hate even, one of Dorie's recipes, but there really is a first time for everything, I guess.

This week's recipe was Cherry Rhubarb Cobbler, chosen by Amanda of Like Sprinkles on a Cupcake. To start with, I wasn't too enthusiastic about another biscuit topping "cobbler" (not that it matters what I think - all that matters is the person who chose it, and if she wanted cobbler, than by gosh, cobbler is what she'll get!), but its a cobbler containing rhurbarb....I think I've actually seen rhubarb in person once in my whole life around these parts....but not now apparently - the stuff is darned near impossible to find - so it would be a cherry rhubarb cobbler minus the rhubarb. Maybe that's why mine was so unappealing - who knows. (At least it looks good, right?)

I bought a truck load of fresh cherries at my farmers market and was all excited to get home and start on my cherry cobbler. Until I realized I had no cherry pitter thingie. Great. I read on the TWD website that you could use a chopstick instead....so there I was in my kitchen, using a chopstick to try to pit my cherries. Five minutes into the process, it looked like I had murdered a small animal or something - bright, red cherry juice - EVERYWHERE. My face, my hair, my clothes, my walls, my hands - my fingers are still stained!- but I managed to get all those @#$%^&! cherries pitted, alright. During the whole process I kept thinking, "this had better be the best cherry cobbler known to man, or else I'm going to be really upset!" Against my better judgement, I decided to go ahead and make the biscuit topping instead of using a different topping like I did last time (the TWD gods were not amused at that), and hope for the best. I pulled it out of the oven and it looked delicious - juicy and red with a nicely browned crumbly topping. The taste, however wasn't near as good as it looked. Both hubby and I were disappointed in the topping - it tasted like flour and nothing else - and the cherry filling was just "ok". Now that could be due to the lack of rhubarb - so I won't judge that part too much. Either way, it didn't get eaten. And I was disappointed that I made something of Dorie's that I didn't care for. I guess it happens though - she can't make everyone happy 100% of the time. So, there's always next week (Summer Fruit Galette) and I'm particularly excited about it! Stay tuned!