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Happy National Peach Ice Cream Day!

There's no better way to capture the essence of fresh summer produce than freezing it into delicious frozen concoctions, especially at the height of July, when peaches are at their juiciest and positively bursting with flavor. As pictured above, food blogger Elana bottled up some peaches into a vegan peach and almond ice cream. "To increase the peach factor, I diced up more fresh peaches and mooshed them into the ice cream after it came out of the ice cream maker," wrote Elana.

Follow her lead and take advantage of the time-capsule properties of your freezers by filling them up with fresh ice creams and sorbets while fresh summer fruits are at their tastiest peak! And do us a favor: Share your favorite peach ice cream ingredients in the comments.

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OK, now this is getting rather specific, eh?

It's not National Ice Cream Day (though it is National Ice Cream Month), it's National Peach Ice Cream Day. So, if you don't like peaches than you're out of luck and you have to eat broccoli all day long.

This is timing that actually makes sense. Sometimes you don't know why a certain holiday falls on a certain day or in a certain season, but it's summer so having a day set aside for an ice cream flavor seems right, and peaches are a summer fruit and sound awfully refreshing.

Here's a Peach Ice Cream recipe from TexasCooking .com, and here's one from AllRecipes.

P.S. This past Sunday was National Ice Cream Day??? How the heck did that go by unnoticed?