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U-pick


The glorious thing about having a car is being able to drive to your favourite fruit orchard one hour away on your day off from work and pick all the fruit you want to your heart's content.

I picked about 40 Honeycrisp apples, 15 Redskin peaches and a quart of raspberries.

Redskin peaches have a fresh, flowery-fragrant low-acid flavour. I just can't get enough of peaches. I planned to slice enough of them to make a peach-frangipane tart, but I didn't have the willpower to stop biting into their juicy, yielding flesh. One thing to remember about peaches is that when picking them off a tree, always remember to wipe off the peach fuzz before eating them. Otherwise you get something akin to that "whisker burn" you get after making out with your boyfriend who has decided to go all cute and scruffy by not shaving for the weekend.

Right now I'm eating roasted peaches. Just a dash of cinnamon, vanilla sugar and dotted sparingly with butter. Mmm... such a warm feeling.

Guess I'll have to make an apple-frangipane tart instead.
Recipes

http://www.joyofbaking.com/AppleFrangipaneTart.html
http://www.joyofbaking.com/AppleGalette.html

Hazelnut Frangipane Pear Tart
http://www.bigoven.com/95971-Hazelnut-Frangipane-Pear-Tart-recipe.html

Apple Frangipane Puff Tarts
http://iptvrecipes.com/chantal/437
Apple Walnut Raisin Tart with Frangipane
http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=963
Pear and Almond Frangipane Tart (Dorie)
http://dessertfirst.typepad.com/dessert_first/2006/11/pear_and_almond.html
Rise and Shine Cling Peach Scones
http://www.calclingpeach.com/html/rcpe_consum/recipies/RsPeachScones.htm
fresh peach and gingercream shortcakes
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/FRESH-PEACH-AND-GINGERCREAM-SHORTCAKES-242968
honey-glazed peach tart with mascarpone cream
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/HONEY-GLAZED-PEACH-TART-WITH-MASCARPONE-CREAM-108473

Drinking in a Hurricane
http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/2008/09/drinking-in-a-h.html#more