Very Blueberry Grunt and Grumbles

This Morning I woke up starving. And Grumpy. But I'm grumpy every morning, so that's beside the point. All I wanted was some comfort food. My Husband had cereal, and for some reason that made me angry. So I grumbled my grumpy self to the kitchen and just stared at the fridge. Thats when I remembered that I have about 5 pounds of blueberries in my freezer and I should probably do something about it.

I have never been much of a blueberry fan. But I was starving and in no shape to go pick up anything for anywhere. So I decided I would use a recipe I found on an iphone app called vegan yum yum. A blueberry grunt. Now I am not going to pretend that while I looking through my app that I knew what a grunt was. I had no idea. But considering my mood it seemed appropriate. Plus its a really low maintenance recipe.

So here it is:

for the blueberry filling:

4 cups of blueberries

2 tablespoons of lemon juice (or if you have a lemon just squeeze half of it into the pan)

1/2 cup of sugar (the original recipe called for 3/4 cup but even 1/2 was very sweet)

1/2 cup water (if you're using frozen blueberries i recommend NOT using this much water. Try 1/4. I used 1/2 and it took way too long for the mixture to thicken and the berries got too prun-like for my taste)

for the "grunt":

2 cups all purpose flour

4 teaspoons of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons of dairy free margarine

3/4 cup of soy/almond milk (I always use almond milk)

make sure you have:

a deep dish frying/sauce pan (sorry i have no idea what to call it. i'm really a novice i guess)

a mixing bowl

measuring cups/spoons

a fork

a wooden spoon

corning ware dish(es) (if you're making individual ones you'll, obviously need more than one)

OK! so lets get started.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F

Throw all the blueberry ingredients into your pan. (It doesn't really matter what kind of pot/pan it is as long as it goes on a burner & it fits all the ingredients with room for the mixture to boil.) Mix it all together and let it come to a boil on medium heat, then let it boil for about 15 minutes, still on medium heat (more or less time depending on how thick you want it to be. I wanted mine thick so I did it for more time. don't freak out because i'm not giving you a definite time. you don't want it to be soupy, but you don't want your blueberries to resemble raisins. so just play with it. you'll be fine! promise!)

While thats coming to a boil, put all your dry ingredients into a bowl, and if you really want to be organized, you can measure out your butter & milk and throw it in the fridge until you need it too. Once the blueberries are almost done (like have 1-2 minutes left) take your butter & with a fork mix it into your dry ingredients until you can't really find any chunks of butter in there anymore.

When the blueberries are done, put the mixture on simmer (this next part wont take long at all, promise, so a simmer will be fine. if you're really worried you can turn it off!)

Pour in about half of you milk and WITH YOUR FORK still, mix it in. Don't mix or handle the dough too much or it'll get tough. Pour in the rest of your milk and mix it in again as little as possible. just until none (or most of) the flour is dry.

Then take your blueberries and pour them in to your dish(es) (try not too go too much over half way) and break up the dough into bite size chunks and put them on top of the blueberries. If you want you can put some sugar on top of the biscuits and then put the dish(es) in the oven for about 20 minutes.

I had a LOT of left over dough, so i just made (about 8) biscuits and baked them at the same time as the grunts.

When they're done let them cool for about 5 minutes and then enjoy! I put powdered sugar on mine when they were ready to serve and that made them very very very sweet lol but really its all based on preference.

If you want to make blueberry syrup! add more water in the beginning (about 3/4 cup) and go about everything the same way. then when you're dishing out your blueberries just use a draining spoon and whats left in the pan is your syrup! my very picky husband loves it!