Entries tagged with 'peaches'
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Note: On Mondays, one of our various Market Scene correspondents checks in with what's fresh at farmstands, what's coming up, and what you better get while the gettin's good. This week, our Boston correspondent Penny Cherubino of BostonZest checks in. Photographs by Penny Cherubino Bostonians who live downtown, have more than 25 farmers' markets within easy walking or public transit distance. The City Hall Farmers' Market is one of the most convenient. It's located on the plaza outside Boston City Hall at the Government Center subway station. It's also close to many places that bring people into the heart of the city. Peaches were on my shopping list with a whole new use in mind. Neelam Batra, author of 1000...
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When ripe, peaches ae rich and heady jewels that are best eaten fresh, but since it can be difficult to polish off the dozen or so that come in a tray, here are some of our best peachalicious recipes--in salads, with pork, or puddingified.
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Note: Each week, one of our various Market Scene correspondents from around the country checks in with what's fresh at the farmstands in a particular region. Today, Penny Cherubino (Boston Zest) drops by from Boston. The Brookline Farmers Market has been a part of the Coolidge Corner shopping experience for thirty-one years. It's a place of full-flavor shopping with produce, cheese, eggs, ice cream, bakery, specialty foods, beef, turkey, pork, lamb, and fish vendors. It's a busy market, with long lines forming at favorite vendors like Clear Flour Bakery. This family-operated, artisan bakery specializes in creating the authentic breads of Italy, France and Germany. Clear Flour always appears in any list of the best bakeries in the Boston area....
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Photo from Big Red Kitchen via Photograzing If you glance at this photo and see a pile of summer peaches, look again. Robin Sue from Big Red Kitchen shares her recipe for miniature peach cakes, which really could pass for the real thing: yellow cake for the base, buttercream frosting for the crease, and colored sugar to create the "fuzz," plus a cinnamon stick stem and peppermint leaf. More photos on her site, here....
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Bananas, blueberries, and apples are all pretty standard pancake additions, so why not peaches? Olga at Mango & Tomato stirs cubed ripe peaches and mini chocolate chips into her usual pancake batter. It's pretty hard to look at this picture and not smile. We're getting into stone fruit season—any other peachy breakfasts out there?...
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guardian.co.ukSo you might have cleared space on your balcony for a container garden, or even planted a little plot in your backyard. Still, you may not have the time, space, or expertise to branch out--say, with a peach tree, or an olive tree, or even a few pigs. But if you want a farm harvest without the farm, consider adoption. At the Masumoto Family Farm near Fresno, California--at times a supplier to Blue Hill, Per Se, and Chez Panisse--Elberta peach trees are available for "adoption." Each winter, prospective owners apply to own a peach tree; the Masumotos take care of planting, pruning, and raising your baby. Then at midsummer harvest, adopters come out to the farm to pick the trees...
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"Most people don't realize that POTUS's 'Peaches' is not a weird novelty rock song; rather, it is actually a thinly veiled critique of the anti-locavore movement." —Helen Rosner, MenuPages Chicago...
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Photo by clayirving on Flickr Is there anything better than biting into a perfectly ripe, sweet, and juicy peach? Maybe a bite of warm peach cobbler served with a scope of vanilla ice cream! Peaches typically peak during late June through July in the South, and July and August in the North. Look for peaches that have a uniform yellow background color, (golden yellow on yellow peaches, creamy yellow on white peaches) with no green around the stem. A ripe peach will yield slightly to pressure. Once ripe, they'll keep in the refrigerator for a few days. Here are a few recipes we think are worth trying this peach season: Peach Recipes Paige Denison's Deep-Dish Peach Cobbler [SE] Dorie Greenspan's...
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At Lane Southern Orchards, peaches are categorized by peak juicy date. In Georgia it’s now officially peach season, which runs until mid-August. This fluorescent orange-bordered sign inside the Lane Southern Orchards market shop in Fort Valley, Georgia, goes into more peach detail than the average stone fruit–eater probably knows. A peach is a peach is a peach, right? Not at this 2,700-acre peach orchard, where the varieties Lane Luck and Cary Mac are peachiest now. Inside the market, the drupe comes in multiple forms: butter, marmalade, salsa, and ice cream at the attached café. Lane Southern Orchards 50 Lane Road, Fort Valley, GA 31030 (map) 478-825-3362 lanesouthernorchards.com...
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Blackberry sorbet made with blackberries from Burkart Organics. For a former New Yorker there's a lot to get used to about Southern California life. For the first eight years I lived here I felt like a winter kale wilting in the summer sun. It took leaving and moving all over the country before I figured out that there's something truly special about Southern California. Rest assured it's not Lindsay Lohan. While to most people California is a postcard of beaches and palms trees, much of the Golden State is actually farmland, a fact that is reflected by the more than 50 certified farmers' markets in Los Angeles County alone. Perhaps the most famous of these markets is the one...
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