For this month's
You Want Pies with That? challenge, Rebecca of
Ezra Pound Cake and Mary of
Alpineberry came up with this month's theme:
Taste of Summer Pie!
Summer to me is all about stone fruit. I love stone fruit. I grew up eating peaches from my parent's backyard. The house always had apricots, plums and nectarines from the store. I remember when I discovered the goodness that is the white peach and nectarine. And I jump for joy when I first see the mango-flavored nectarine at the Farmer's Market at the beginning of summer. And don't get me started about my special relationship with the pluot...
Have you tried the Donut or Saturn peach? It's a sweet, squat white peach that, well, looks like a donut or the rings of Saturn. (Yes, I bet that one was hard to figure out! :)
By the way, I've used this green platter in a
few posts. It is a piece of
Mary Law Pottery. She has a great studio in Berkeley, CA. I bought it when I got my bread platter by
Gary Holt (
see this post), and I forgot to showcase this one! Check out
Mary Law's website...and visit her studio if you ever visit Northern California.
For this one, I wanted to keep the donut shape so I just rinsed it off and plopped the lovely fruit (with pit) on my completely misshapen pie crust. I had some frozen
ginger spice cookies I made last week so I crumbed some of them underneath. And I dropped some butter and sugar on top. Bake and eat. Yum.
Recipe:
Pie Crust: 1 1/4 c flour, dash of salt, 1 stick butter, 2 1/2 T ice water (a variation of
Martha Stewart's Pie Crust)
Saturn or Donut Peach
Ginger Spice Cookie crumbs
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40 comments:
delicious!
ohhh so that's what they're called. My parents loves those flat peaches. They're amazingly sweet too!
lovely plate & dessert. ginger combines perfectly with peaches.
you've got to see this recent peach cake:
http://www.bigredkitchen.com/2009/07/little-peach-cakes.html
One word. Amazing. Ok two. Phenomenal!
This DOES look yum! When I was a kid, we had a "dwarf" peach tree that grew taller than our house! My mom made a lot of wonderful peach pies from that tree.
What an adorable little pie creation! I love how you crumbled up some ginger cookie to put underneath.
It looks heavenly!
These are My Mom's favorite peaches and when ever I see them I have to get them for her. Looks great!!
Mmmmm, looks delicious! I just picked up some Saturn peaches at the Farmer's market yesterday...yum. :)
I've never even heard of doughnut peaches, but if more fruit was named after dessert I'd probably get my five a day more often. Cupcake apples, anyone?
These are so simple and adorable!
No joke, I was just taking photographs of my saturn peaches yesterday! But I didn't get to bake them in anything because I ate them first. They are soooo sweet and just the right amount of peach!
I'm with Indigo ... any fruit with the name doughnut in it has to be alright. They finished galette is beautiful.
The peaches are called UFO here in Connecticut....I love the little space alien stickers they put on them at our fruit market :). Great post...I have pottery envy problems.
Wow, that looks scrumptious!!!
Simple and delicious!
Gorgeous - LOVE summer pies!
I'm with snooky doodle looks delicious! Very pretty, too!
~ingrid
I love this. Such an easy way to get a delicious pie.
I love plouts! They are near perfection~esp. the Dinosaur egg ones.
Oh gosh, what a delicious way to capture summer flavours in a tart! That peach looks seriously moist, I want a bite now!
I absolutely swooned when I was in SF and bought apricots for a galette - so much better than the ones I get here in WI! I adore donut peaches too, just because of how cute they look :)
I had never heard of them until a few weeks ago. We got some and didn't know what they were! Maybe I should try using them in baking...the dessert looks great. I love peaches and ginger!
Gorgeous! I'm so jealous of the produce you have available.
we have a donut peach tree in our backyard! they are so sweet!
I'm learning so much about fruit and food from your blog, FL. This entry is amazing. I am heading to our local farmer's market this morning with my neighbor and hope to find some of these there to try. Great pics! Hugs, Racheal
My manners have fled and all I can say is gimme!
Wow! So easy! Yum.
How perfectly easy and delicious looking!
Beautiful! And delicious looking!!
-Amy
www.singforyoursupperblog.com
What a perfect way to highlight the donut peach.
If I went through all your previous posts, I think my comment would be the same across the board:
Oh.
Mah.
Gawd.
(I especially love this one as it looks like something even *I* could make!)
peaches must be the fruit of summer! your galettes look tasty!
so cute!
I dont blame you for wanting to keep the shape. Those peaches are beautiful!
WOW! I'm impressed at how well the peach held it's shape after oven baking!
Very creative, great thinking...
Delicious and tasty!!!
Mmmm, yummy! that is completely adorable and I'll bet it tasted wonderful too. Nice work.
so simple and delicious looking. I just bought a ton of peaches too!
yum yum yum yum yum! I love your blog! I linked it to my blog, hope you dont mind. I found you when I went looking for something fun to do with jello. Thanks, HurricaneKassi
I think this is the perfect embodiment of the challenge... the whole stone fruit really screams summer to me as well! Great idea!
We just picked the first peaches off our little Saturn peach tree. The flesh is so sweet and white!! Nice idea for a beautiful dessert.
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