Grilled Peaches and Cherries with Cinnamon-Honey Syrup is a delicious way to top vanilla ice cream and part of a sponsored post for Socialstars. This year, we started doing something new in the produce department. I don't pick the fruit anymore. Unless I need something in particular for a recipe, I have handed over the fruit shopping to the kids. I try keep the experience as rule-free as I can and they can pick almost anything they want, with two words of advice: 1. Choose fruit that … [Read more...]
Mini Peach Pies in a Jar
Mini Peach Pies in a Jar -- cute, personal-sized pies with an easy filling you make from fruit cups! My niece, Courtney, adores little things. She loves little forks and little spoons, mini erasers, and tiny kittens. Just about anything that is smaller than "normal" size. Food in miniature is especially cute...and tasty too. When she heard that I was making mini pies in a jar, she asked "how mini are they?" I told her to peek in the oven and she would see, and she squealed "OH! They are cute!" … [Read more...]
Chipotle Peach Chicken
I know it's getting late in peach season (or perhaps even over for those in the US East coast), but I couldn't let the Summer officially end without sharing one of my favorite peach recipes: Chipotle Peach Chicken. True be told, I'm not a big fan of peaches. I can eat them, but you will very rarely see me eating a fresh peach. I know lots of you *LOVE*LOVE* them, but, me? eh...not so much. But when I came across a version of this recipe in a Summer 2009 issue of a Weight Watcher recipe book … [Read more...]
