Fiber Fool

I love this time of year. When the farmer’s markets are so full of fresh produce it is difficult to decide what to bring home for the week. Though when it is peach time we hardly ever leave without at least a small bag of peaches in hand. This year it has seemed the peaches are always a few days away from being quite ready. In fact, I haven’t seen a stand yet that has had tasters out this year. When the peaches aren’t quite ready I have a tendency to forget about them until they all need using *right now.* In general that works fairly well. There is always the old family cobbler recipes that will use up 4 peaches.

However, when do you do when you have 5 or 6 small peaches ready to turn on you and you are in the middle of a a 23 day streak of 90+ weather? Without AC the last thing I want to do is turn on the oven for 45 minutes - even for something as good as the family peach cobbler.

Well, you cut up the peaches, sprinkle them with a touch of lime juice to retain color and some sugar to free the juices. Then, you strain 6 cups of locally made, low-fat, plain yoghurt down to 3 cups. You mix it all together with 1/2 cup of local honey and a 1 tsp of locally made pure vanilla extract and put it in the Donvier or ice cream maker. In about 30 minutes or so you have the most delicious bowl of summer! And, it was all local and organic too!

Now I can’t wait for our peach tree to be old enough to let fruit! Only another 2 or 3 years to go! *sigh*