Thursday, September 8, 2011

Labor Day Adventures- Just Peachy

For Labor Day I wanted to go peach picking.
I ended up getting 25 lbs of peaches and an assortment of hot peppers.
Let's not forget about the 12 large baseball sized green tomatoes we picked off the vine.
What to do with all this produce.
I had dreams of jars of jam & jelly.
I've been busy.
I made 2 kinds of peach jam - one in the crock pot & one on the stove top.
I made hot pepper jelly that really has some kick.
I made a peach pie that is baking away right now. 
I made sambal, Indonesian hot sauce similar to Sriracha.
Ben has been asking for peach cobbler so that is coming yet.
I have an incredible peach cheesecake bar recipe but it is super indulgent.
I made fried green tomatoes on Monday night with plenty of tomatoes left.
maybe green tomato jam....or more fried green tomatoes.
Ben also had the idea for peach sherbet.  Looking up recipes & determining how hard/simple it would be to make.  Need a grocery store run first...I'm out of sugar & flour!

1 comment:

Elastagirl said...

very fun :) I still have a whole counter full of peaches to do something with. Made peach crisp with Andrew today and that is yum. Need energy to make more things....