Fruits and veggies, shellfish and such are best eaten in season. When it comes to bragging rights over who grows the best grapes, is privy to the best fishing banks, you will certainly have a food fight on your hands. In this case, I'm talking about peaches. Georgia, the peach state, grows a good peach. Alabama, too. But I'd like to turn you on to peaches grown in western Colorado, and the several varieties that have peaked or are at peak right now. Specifically, peaches grown around the rural town of Palisade, CO., are among the sweetest, if not the sweetest I've ever tasted (in particular the O'Henry and the Rising Star). Western and Southwestern Colorado also produce some of the finest cider and applesauce apples in the world.
As to peaches. Check out this recipe for Peach Delight that won grand prize at the Palisade Peach Festival a couple of weeks ago. I tried a variation that did not include the egg replacement (since it's not cooked, don't mess around with raw eggs these days: salmonella) and it was divine.
A fraking amazing Battlestar Galactica cake
Iced Tea 101
Pierogies + cheese + onions + kraut = Parmageddon!
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9-01-2006 @ 6:03PM
Laura Prisc said...
Having just returned from a quick visit to Palisade--my mom lives there--I was pleasantly surprised to see this blog on the peaches. They are quite yummy...Did you happen to find the Vodka Distiller? It's on a little side street downtown, near the railroad tracks, not far from the Palisade Brewery. They distill peach flavored vodka using local Palisade peaches.
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9-01-2006 @ 6:17PM
Mitch Taylor said...
No Mention of the famous Jersey Peach.......
The 2006 NJ Peach Crop was valued at $75 million dollars....
The NJ Peach along with our blueberries, tomatoes, green peppers are the best......
YOU SEE THERE IS MORE TO NJ THEN THE TURNPIKE AND THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY AND TOLLBOOTHS!!!!!!!
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9-01-2006 @ 7:22PM
Mrs. Bickerson said...
I had the world's best peach pie in Glenwood Springs, CO about 16 years ago. It was made at a place called The Daily Bread. It was called Peaches and Cream Pie. I'll never have anything THAT delicious ever, ever again. Agree about the CO peaches. They are outstanding. I'll cry a little when the season is over.
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9-02-2006 @ 12:37PM
Dennis said...
"I asked a thief to steal me a peach" is the beginning of a William Blake poem. William Carlos Williams then used the line in one of his poems and changed it to "Reach me a peach": I just liked the way it sounded. Peace, peach lovers, DC
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9-04-2006 @ 10:24AM
suburban misfit said...
Is "reach me" a regional thing? I've never heard it before. My mother's Southern family says "fetch me".
I've heard about NJ peaches. Hopefully I'll get to try them sometime, along with CO peaches.
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