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You have peaches already? Why do I live on the cold East Coast again?

Leah
The Jew & The Carrot
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I just got peaches from my spud! delivery in Seattle.

What's a good recipe to cook them in wine? Would that be a dessert or a topping for some meat/poultry? I'd like to cook with them, considering I have about 10 bananas, a box of strawberries, and a mango going bad by next week :)

(And by going bad, I mean I'm going to have to eat them all before they go bad! Oh, the horror.)

i have a great recipe for peaches!
(if i may say so meself...)

;)

Epitaph for a Peach is one of my favourite books of all time -- I recommend it for all peach lovers:

http://www.masumoto.com/epitaph-for-a-peach.htm

You're so lucky in San Francisco -- you can actually get one of Mas' peaches...

(check out his site -- there is lots there)

@Leah - I was thinking the same thing here in Michigan. We won't see a local peach until... um... around late July and early August?!?

@rizzuhjj - I have a recipe at home for poached peaches, plums, and pears, but I can't quite remember all of it. The basic idea, though is to get some sweetener (I've used honey, brown sugar and maple syrup - maybe 1/4 to 1/2 a cup) in with a cup and a half or so of wine (enough to just cover the fruits - I've also used cherry juice for guests who don't do booze) in a wide pan and get it warming just so the sweetener and wine are well combined. Add anything you're inclined to doctor it with - maybe a cinnamon stick or two, vanilla bean, herbage, nutmeg, etc. Cut your fruit into good size slices, with or without peeling depending on your level of laziness (I'm lazy - no peeling). Add the fruit to the pan and let it simmer gently for 45 minutes to an hour, but start checking the fruit after a half an hour - you don't want them to be mush. Take it off the heat and let it cool to at least room temperature, and you can use it then or it refrigerates and freezes very well. I've served it with ice cream and biscotti, over cheesecake and over waffles, and I caught my husband putting a bit in his grits one morning. Good anywhere that you'd like some sweet!

The best thing about living in Texas in the summer is all the readily available locally-grown peaches and tomatoes.

The concoction Laurall describes is great on ice cream!

Ethylene gas, not ethanol.