When I woke up yesterday morning, I walked outside and picked peaches from our peach tree.
For breakfast we sipped delicious, creamy peach smoothies.
For lunch, I sat on the porch, enjoying the cool breezes and a glass of lemonade (the perfect palate refresher) while peeling peaches for Peach Freezer Jam. I’ve got 68oz of fresh, delicious peach jam in my freezer now. Wintertime will be much more bearable when we are enjoying the sweet taste of summer with snow is on the ground. Mmmmm!
For dinner we enjoyed a new recipe, similar to Hawaiian Chicken, but instead of pineapple, I made a fresh peach sauce. My kidlets were skeptical, but they ended up devouring everything on their plates and then asking for seconds. Very yummy!
And for dessert, I baked a Peach Cobbler, which we gobbled up while watching a movie. (Have you all seen IronMan? Awesome movie! And now one of my favorites.)
I think I even dreamed of peaches last night, too.
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Can I please come to live with you? I adore peaches!
ummmmm that peach cobbler looks good...so glad can gain weight just looking...love your header
Beautiful peaches and the chicken looked great.
Thanks for sharing and making us all envious ;)
Dan
My favorite cobbler is peach, warm with milk over it. Do you peel all the peaches or scald them and then put in cold water to make them easier to peel?
can you post the chicken recipe? Looks great and I am always looking for things to mix in fruit...
Ellie,
I usually just peel them. I find that scalding them takes too much time waiting for them to the water to get hot with an electric stove, and then waiting for them to down cool down enough to handle. And the hot water tends to make them mushy and slippery. Peeling, without scalding is just faster and easier for me.
~Lisa
*drool*
That is just so fabulous!
I have peach envy! Your cobbler looks so delicious. I don't usually peel my peaches. I just use them with the peels still on. The peels add a tartness and a deeper color that I enjoy. Less work too.
I swear to you, I was thinking of you Saturday afternoon! I was peeling and freezing a peach overflow, and wondering how your harvest was this year. Glad you got enough to play with! The peaches out of SC have been amazing this year; even the freestones are tasty.
Mmmmmm, peaches. Love them!
Could you please send a sample of each in a to go container?
Wow! That's just lovely, and so delicious - I can almost smell them!
It all sounds and looks delicious! Our peach tree just doesn't do well and we are in the peach state!
Now pears, we have...lots of pears!
Maybe we need to be called the pear state? lol..
Have a great day.
Pam
Everything looks awesome.
I didn't think I would like Iron Man, but I loved it! I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek humor.
So glad you are getting some to put up, I know it was touch and go with those late freezes.
I have peach envy. Peach is one of my favorite words too.
Oh I love peaches. Trade you squash and garlic for some of those peaches. LOL. Great harvest you have.
My peach trees got hit by late frost, which killed two of them and by aphids, which made the other two non productive. Fortunately there are lots in the valley, I can just buy a box!
I wish I could walk out and pick peaches!! I love peaches LOL
But I do need to go out and pick apples, Hubby wants and apple pie, and Little Rick(aka Meghan) said the same thing today LOL LOL
LOL that's ALOT of peaches!! But I SO wish it was me because I LOVE peaches!!
What a delicious day, Lisa!
Looks like you had a really "peachy" day.
I put up peach jam this week and made a pie and still have peaches left over. We had to buy our, sure wish we had a tree. :)
That's a lot of peaches. I need you over here at my place after the in-laws visit. They always bring bags and bags of fruit from their orchard/garden, and there is no way we can eat it all, so we save a few and throw the rest in the compost pile after they leave. The fruit is actually usually rotted or moldy by the time they get it to us after a 400 mile drive in this heat anyway. If it were good, we'd probably take it to the Food Bank.
There is nothing like a fresh juicy peach in the summer. They look delicious.
I had peach daquaris the other night. I think I need a peach tree or three when we finally get settled and buy a place here. So far, Georgia peaches haven't been anything special. And let's not even discuss GA watermelons! It's sad when watermelon from Indiana tastes better.
OH MY! I'm dreaming of your peach cobbler --- totally YUMMY!
Oh golly, I got apples today but they are nothing like peaches! I wanna come down and get me some! Enjoy one for me please.
If I had a peach tree, nothing would happen except I would have a belly ache.
OOoooh!! I love freezer jam! (so much better than canned). I am making some fig jelly tomorrow. Yum! That cobbler looks d-lish! That is a lot of peaches in one day:D I love em!
Ps- it is raining at your blog:)
I peel my peaches by dipping in hot water (not boiling) for only 30-45 seconds, then drop in a bowl of ice water to cool down which only takes a minute or so while the next few peaches are in the hot water. After a short cool down just line them up on your board while you peel them. Just place your thumbs on either side of the peach crease and pull the skin back, it will come right off. So easy and my peaches did not turn brown. A quick dip in the hot water won't brown them. :)
Ooooh, I remember your yummy peach pictures from last year as well. So jealous--we can't even have any in the house due to Max's allergy to them. Enjoy for me.
And peach chx sounds great!
Yum. Try homemade ice cream with them - you won't be disappointed.
Oh my they look lovely and I bet they tasted so good..I'm not going back to your sssnake post too sscary for me..glad you killed the bugger on the road..you got good aim:)
Oh...please send me some of those gorgeous peaches!!! You posted about them a week or so ago and I had to buy some...I was sooooo disappointed. Not sweet...not juicy...hard...all I could think about were YOUR peaches!!! You definitely look like you're enjoying them to the max!!
Heaven! This is a great year for peaches in the Northeast and I totally understand your peach mania. I think I ate at least 10 today and I plan to do the same tomorrow.
Peaches, peaches everywhere, I love peaches....now when I go to the store tomorrow I will have to buy some peaches to eat!
Would love to have one of your peach drinks, with something good in it, maybe that would help stop the itching from the hornet stings! :-(
jane
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