Easy Sourdough Fruit Cobbler with sugar-free options

I’m trying to stay away from sugar as my body doesn’t seem to like it very much and I’ve been incorporating a lot of sourdough into our meals so this was a creation I came up with.

Top it with some sugar-free caramel syrup and a scoop of vanilla ice cream for a delicious treat!

In the photo, I put the cobbler dough on top but it also works well if you want to spread the dough on the bottom of the pan first and put the fruit on top.

If you don’t have any sourdough on hand then you may want to check out my other Fruit Cobbler recipe.

Easy Sourdough Fruit Cobbler with sugar-free options

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This makes enough for an 8×8 pan.

Ingredients:

Filling:

  • 1-2 c. fruit, chopped or sliced
  • 1/4-1/2 c. Monkfruit ( I like to use the golden for this recipe) or sugar or brown sugar

Dough batter:

  • ¼ c + 2 T all-purpose flour
  • ½ t. baking powder
  • ¼ t. baking soda
  • A good pinch of salt
  • 3 T. butter
  • ½ c. sourdough starter or discard

Topping: (optional)

  • 1 T. melted butter
  • 1 ½ t. Monkfruit or sugar

Optional toppings:

  • Ice cream
  • Caramel sauce
  • Whipped cream

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Place 3 T. butter in pan and set in the oven to melt.

Mix the fruit and sweetener together and set to side.

Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together. Mix well.

Add in the melted butter from the pan and the sourdough starter. Stir just until combined.

Add the fruit or batter to the pan and then add the other to the top.

Drizzle the butter on top, if desired and then sprinkle with sweetener.

Bake 30-45 minutes or until golden brown.

Serve warm or cold with ice cream and toppings, as desired.

Magic Treehouse Lesson Plans!

I can’t believe that I haven’t found this site before but I just had to share it with everyone else because this is so awesome! I mean this can and will save me a ton of time and it makes some parts of homeschooling so much easier and my kiddos actually enjoy reading this series.

Read more: Magic Treehouse Lesson Plans!

Magic Treehouse books are geared towards 1-4 grades (6-10 years old) but I’m actually going to be using them with my 3rd grader and my 5th grader because it’s just easier to combine things when I can. The older kiddos (and little miss) will be listening in as we will be in the same room so they will all be learning as we go.


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We usually school year-round so this week is a planning week for me… actually, it’s a ‘catch-up’ on everything around the house week before the place gets condemned (jk) kinda week but I have been getting some planning and printing done, and have the next three weeks of learning ready to go. I still felt like I needed a little more reading for the boys and I’d found a couple of Novel-ties study units but you know me if we were going to do a few books out of the series why not do them all? BTW, I haven’t forgotten about the Little House on the Prairie Unit Studies and I will get back to them just as soon as I have a chance to catch my breath around here. I also have some plans to create a ‘ready-made’ unit study guide that can be used with just about any book…. when I find some spare time that isn’t already set aside for something else or being used to chase around the almost 2-year-old who is getting to be very mobile despite her prenatal diagnosis of ‘being nothing more than a vegetable’… she sure fooled them!

Where has the time gone? I can’t believe it’s been two years this week since little miss made her debut and I still remember how scary that was but she has been such a blessing to us and we are so very grateful to all of our prayer warriors for helping us get through those traumatic events… words could never express how grateful we are and how blessed we have been to be surrounded by so many loving and caring people!

Anyways, getting back to my reason for writing this post… I couldn’t find any ready-made unit studies for all of the books so I figured I’d just make my own, but who am I kidding? I don’t really have time for that right now so the next best thing was to ask my dear old friend, Google, and she hooked me up with some links to check out. Among them was a link to this wonderful blog post HERE, which is where I learned that the Magic Treehouse has a website and FREE Lesson Plans to go along with their books… WHATTTT????? Why has no one told me this before????

They also have a ‘special education’ lesson plan to use with grades 3-5 and this will work put great with our kiddos. My kids are already using the Living Education for Language Arts and Math so I’m not set on them needing any extra work but there are some great activities that we can definitely incorporate into our daily lesson plans. The site also has several different games and online activities for the kiddos but I haven’t had a chance to really check them out yet. Be sure to check the ‘Parents’ tab and the ‘Teachers’ tab for the different activities.

I just purchased a few of the ‘Fact Checker’ books as well to go along with these and I will buy a few at a time as we read through the series… there are more books than I had previously thought but you can never have too many books, right?

These would also be great to use for summer reading to keep the kiddos from getting bored!

Happy Homeschooling!

Easy Fruit Cobbler with sugar-free options

We’ve been gifted several boxes of peaches over the last couple of weeks so we’ve been making quite a bit of cobbler as well as putting some away in the freezer. I’m hoping to make some peach butter or preserves too.

This is really good with a drizzle of caramel sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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Crazy Grocery Prices!

Spice Jar Fruit Fly Trap

Fruit fly traps

You need:

Old spice container

Dish soap

Vinegar (ACV or homemade fruit scrap vinegar work best)

Directions:

Tape off all but a couple of holes in the lid.

Fill the jar about halfway with vinegar.

Add one drop of dish soap.

Put the lid on the jar.

Place in area where fruit flies have been seen and wait.

Empty every 1-2 weeks, or as needed.

You can also use an old cup with a lid and a straw that has been cut in half.

Place the vinegar and dish soap in the cup.

Put the lid on.

Secure the straw with tape so that it is suspended above the liquid.

The flies will get in but won’t find their way back out… just make sure to label it so no one gets curious and takes a sip… yuck!