Showing posts with label august is awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label august is awesome. Show all posts
August 20, 2014

Honestly guys, this peach crisp is what brought my mind around to finally blogging again. Couldn't wait to share it with you. It's so great! I'm no stranger to apple crisp, but this is my first experience with it's summery sister edition, and I'm sold. My mother-in-law made this crisp the weekend we were packing up at camp and sent us home with a deep, heavy dish of it. We chilled it in the fridge and ate bits of it after every meal until it was gone. (which was a sad moment.) It was fantastic warm too, but I loved how jellied the peaches got, how intense the flavors became, and how refreshing it felt when we ate it cold. Yum. If you give it a go, you'll see what I mean. Just savor every sweet bite.

So I know that some of you guys already know and love Grandma Marian's famous apple crisp, and in that case, you'll be happy to know that this recipe is based on that piece of perfection. Big thanks to Mom Judy for creating the masterpiece and giving me the ok to share it here! You're wonderful, Judy!


Mom Judy's Peach Crisp
gluten and dairy free 

5 peaches, chopped 
1/4 cup coconut sugar or raw sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 T. tapioca flour
2 T. melted coconut oil

1/2 cup rice flour or a gf flour blend
1/2 cup coconut sugar or raw sugar
1/2 cup gf rolled oats
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
5 T. coconut oil (or palm shortening) 

Preheat oven to 350ยบ. Arrange chopped peaches in an 8x8 or 9x9 dish and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and tapioca flour. Drizzle coconut oil over this and mix it up a bit in the pan. Combine all topping ingredients in a small bowl, cutting in the coconut oil last. Scatter the topping evenly over the peaches. 

Bake for 50 minutes, or until golden and crunchy on top and peaches look bubbly-caramely. Serve warm with vanilla bean coconut milk ice cream. Or set it in the fridge until it gets good and cold - it's truly delicious when eaten cold. Leftovers are awesome and get better by the day. Double this to make a 9x13. 


August 22, 2013
the best. Out of the whole year, August and December are the months that go by the fastest for me. I just want them to last and last. December, of course, because of all things Christmasy. And August because it is just too full of goodness. To me, August means:

Seeing cars parked up and down our street for the county fair, 9 o'clock sunsets, lawn mower lines in our yard, cut watermelon in our fridge, tomatoes on the counter, gladiolas at the farmers' market, my husband all day, plenty of shade trees, ponytails and cut-off shorts, dewy-sunshiny mornings

Smelling cut grass, grill smoke, green corn husks, fresh dill and basil, chocolate brownies in the oven

Tasting the best food of the year! Farmers market musk melon, peaches, fresh salsa, summer squash and zucchini, yellow-yolked farm eggs, sweet corn, and homemade sour pickles. 

Hearing the buzz of lawn mowers, the air conditioning kick on, kids playing outside, crop duster planes flying crazy low and waking us up every morning. 

Feeling free and easy, full of possibilities, the sun on my shoulders as we shuck corn on the back steps, like I need to get my hands on some okra, like I never want this to end. 


Today at the farmers' market I picked up 12 pounds of these little guys!!! Perfect for making these spiced dill pickles from last year. I'm going all out this year. Big batches in big jars, with big hopes that the supply will last us longer than 1 week. I'm even getting some grape leaves from the grape vines we have out at camp-- grape leaves help homemade pickles turn out extra crunchy, so if you can get some, please do! (Although I've made them without grape leaves and they've still turned out nice and crisp.) 

These dill pickles don't have the vinegary-sour taste we're used to in a store-bought pickle. They're a fresher, fizzier kind of sour; which makes sense because they are are classically fermented with just filtered water and sea salt. If you have a garden full of cukes right now, you should so try making these. They're so easy and good- not to mention good for you! (full of probiotics) If your cucumbers are large, I'd recommend cutting them into slices and pickling them that way. As slices, and since our houses are August-warm right now, they may finish fermenting earlier. So feel free to taste them before Day 4 and see if they're sour enough for you. 

What are you guys getting at your farmers' market this week?

August 22, 2011
watermelon

can you believe i used to think i didn't like watermelon?

silly.

i just cut this one into cubes for Grant and me. anyone else love cutting watermelon? hearing the crack when your slice separates from the melon.. feeling the knife slide.. making a stop-sign shape when you cut the rind away. love it.

ps. remember this post? today Hadley is wearing that striped onesie :)

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Hello, I'm Summer. A people-loving introvert whose hope and life is in Jesus. His promises are my passion and my ministry is homelife. This blog is a place for me to write about everyday things. Especially food. My favorite thing to do is sit around a table, lingering over a long meal with good conversation. I live with my husband and our 2 littles. We like blizzards, thrifting, grammar, guacamole, cheerful hearts, nice manners, good movies, and making simple, real, nutrient-dense food.

"If Christ be anything, He must be everything."
-C.H. Spurgeon

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