27 pounds of peaches!! That's how many we picked while on our Va trip. I didn't know what to do with them all at first or what I was going to make with them, but we figured it out. I've been cooking a ton lately and have even stopped eating at work so much.
I hadn't made crepes for a while so decided that would be our first peach dish. We caramelized them with sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. I had made the batter the day before since it's better to let it sit. Then I topped them with a blueberry, nutella, honey, and chocolate compote!! Yum!
I continued to use up the peaches by making a Peach Buckle and a Pie. Both were incredibly good especially with the leftover blueberry compote. (you can see the gift I got of measuring cups in the top picture. I've used them already about 5 times now and love having a 4 cup measuring option. David let the pastry chef at work try the buckle and she was quite impressed :)
We finished up the peaches by making Jam!! David wanted to learn how to can preserves so we used the final (well ripened) peaches to make two batches of jam. Of course you have to use some of the warm jam on ice cream to test it :)
I had picked up some NJ corn, tomatoes, along with those blueberries so we had a great meal of tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil from our plants. The corn was so sweet and good. I used up the blueberries to make Sheldon's lunch pancakes. Who would have thought that one of the best blueberry pancake recipe's comes from a children's book?
Last Sunday I made Tamales and Tostones with Guacamole. My Tamales didn't turn out how I like so I remade them Tuesday. We had a tomato, avocado, and corn salad, with an asian slaw and some grilled Tuna. It was a much better meal than the original try!
We went to Reading Terminal Market Friday to pickup dinner. We got some trout, asparagus, and orriechette pasta. We cooked the meal in fifteen minutes which was a great improvement on our usual all night cooking projects and allowed us to actually watch spinal tap finally. I fried up bread crumbs in olive oil then tossed the pasta in with parmesan cheese. Always a fast good option.
Nothing much other than cooking going on right now. My 2nd sock is still wandering in and out of getting done. And I still haven't gotten the baking out of my system and feel like making a chocolate something or other........hmmm chocolate.
