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Wine-Soaked Peaches

Use this simple, but delicious topping over angel food cake cubes and ice cream for a quick summer dessert.

Course Fruit

Cuisine Dessert

Ingredients

4 large peaches pitted and sliced into eighths
2 oranges juiced and peeled
1 bottle Moscato wine or white wine such as Pinot Grigio, about 5 cups
1/2 cup sugar or 2 Tbs. honey
1 vanilla bean split, or 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Instructions

Place sliced peaches in serving bowl. Juice the orange and cut the peel into matchsticks. In separate bowl, mix wine, sugar, juice, and rinds..
Pour over peaches. Cover and refrigerate to chill for 1 hour.
Use peaches as topping for angel food cake (store bought, if you like) and vanilla ice cream.

It’s been awhile since we fired up the cob oven at the farm and what better time than this gorgeous Labor Day weekend. It wasn’t enough to serve pizza; I felt like I needed to “accessorize” the occasion as well. Every event benefits from flowers, so let’s start there.

The Wildflower Hunt

Tom and family went off on the Gator in search of what remained of the wildflowers.

By supplementing the wildflowers with a few garden blooms, we quickly had a centerpiece for the dining table thanks to Lisa and the girls’ artful arrangement.

Rolling in the Dough

My granddaughters being experienced in working with Play Dough are well prepared for the real thing.

Robin showing off her pizza tossing skills to her cousin, Katy.

All the fixin’s ready for customizing a personal pizza.

Getting the pizza base prepared was a breeze, using puffy mounds of Chris Sommers’ dough from ‘Zza Pizza. The girls, Robin, Katy and I had great fun flinging dough and flour every which way. Guests added their preferred toppings, choosing from tomato sauce, mozzarella, parmesan, prosciutto, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, caramelized onions, zucchini, and fresh oregano and basil.

JC manned the oven, making sure it maintained a temperature of around 700 degrees, which meant just a few minutes of cooking time.

Heat gauge gives an accurate reading of oven temperature.

Something on the Side

For the more diet conscious, I made the dishes I mentioned in an earlier post, Italian Gratinata di Zucchini, which I found needed a bit more time to brown under the broiler. The baking dish was left so clean it barely needed washing. 🙂 The Wine Soaked Peaches over Angel Food Cake and Ice Cream with Lime Zest was superb! I soaked the peach slices in Moscato wine, sugar and orange peel. This time of the year I repeat a couple other favorites for as long as they’re garden fresh: tomato caprese and watermelon chunks in a carved basket.