Southern Goodness!

Howdy! So lets be real for one second, who doesn't LOVE the south?!  I am so proud to be a southern girl! Don't get me wrong, I love the west and everything about it but I love my southern roots! There's nothing like warm weather, sweet tea, sand in your toes, and southern hospitality to kick off your day! Just like there's nothing like a fresh homemade peach cobbler! Now, I know its not peach season cause trust me my grandmother from peach country herself aka Clanton, Alabama would have already given me a dozen or more of some of the finest peaches I've ever put in my mouth! I couldn't help but make something, I was craving! Here's a funny story of how this particular peach cobbler went down..are you ready?.. Here we go!
Okay, I found this amazingly easy recipe and I wasn't in the mood to bake a fancy pastry, so I wanted something that was going to be quick, but good. This recipe took about 15 minutes of preparation time, but one thing that raised some worry in my mind as I prepared this dessert was the amount of self-rising flour that it called for, especially for the type of  baking dish you had to put the cobbler into. So, I thought to myself if the recipe calls for it and it was a Paula Deen recipe, then it would be okay because Paula knows best, right?! Not the case! And here's why, I put this easy dish in the oven and about ten minutes later I smell something burning, I quickly check the oven to see that this flour was headed straight to heaven! I have never seen flour rise that high in my life! I knew I had to think quick so I wouldn't ruin what was left, so I  put a cookie sheet underneath to stop some of the dripping and said a prayer that this cobbler would pull through! Luckily, I was in the clear and it came out well minus some of the pastry down the side, on a cookie sheet and of course in the bottom of the oven! Oh, well live and learn! At least I had some laughs out of it all! So, if you try this good ol' Paula Deen peach cobbler less is definitely  better in this recipe! 

Ingredients:
4 cups of peeled, sliced peaches
2 cups of sugar, divided
1/2 cup of water
8 tablespoons of butter
1 cup of self-rising flour (it actually calls for 1 1/2 cups but if you read the story above you might want to put less, your choice)
1 1/2 cups of milk
ground cinnamon

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350.
Combine the peaches, one cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of water in saucepan and mix well.  Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
Put the butter in a 3 quart baking dish and place in oven to melt. Mix remaining 1 cup of sugar, flour, and milk in bowl.  Pour mixture over melted butter.  DO NOT STIR.  Spoon peaches on top, gently pouring in syrup. Sprinkle top with ground cinnamon! Bake for 30 to 45 minutes. Also, add some whip cream or some good ol' vanilla ice cream on top to make this cobbler real gooooooood!!!

Note: Not my personal pic cause I didn't get a picture this week, oops!