I mentioned sitting up and watching a lightning storm the morning before my brother and I picked peaches. At one point I video taped 3 minutes while sitting in my window seat and I caught some lightning bolts.... fun times!
flojo
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Night Before Picking Peaches
I mentioned sitting up and watching a lightning storm the morning before my brother and I picked peaches. At one point I video taped 3 minutes while sitting in my window seat and I caught some lightning bolts.... fun times!
flojo
Monday, August 29, 2011
Lemons, Peaches And My New Kitchen Toy
Hello!
I bought a Cuisinart Ice Cream maker a couple of months ago. It is a beautiful little machine that makes 2 quarts of Ice Cream in 25 minutes (after pouring the recipe into it). I've made the following Ice Creams:
Cinnamon
Vanilla - 1 batch with mini chocolate chips, 1 with cut up York Peppermint Patties
Chocolate Fudge (used chocolate pudding mix, won't be making it again) :-p
Dutch Chocolate with mini chocolate chips
Pumpkin (I added graham cracker crumbs to 1 of the quarts)
Lemon Sorbet (with the big lemon you saw in my previous blog post)
and now Peach!
I'm trying to give most of it away... :-)
Dutch Chocolate
Pumpkin
Vanilla
Next I'm going to try making "Mexican Chocolate-Cinnamon Swirl Ice Cream."
Yum!
flojo
I bought a Cuisinart Ice Cream maker a couple of months ago. It is a beautiful little machine that makes 2 quarts of Ice Cream in 25 minutes (after pouring the recipe into it). I've made the following Ice Creams:
Cinnamon
Vanilla - 1 batch with mini chocolate chips, 1 with cut up York Peppermint Patties
Chocolate Fudge (used chocolate pudding mix, won't be making it again) :-p
Dutch Chocolate with mini chocolate chips
Pumpkin (I added graham cracker crumbs to 1 of the quarts)
Lemon Sorbet (with the big lemon you saw in my previous blog post)
and now Peach!
I'm trying to give most of it away... :-)
Dutch Chocolate
Pumpkin
Vanilla
Next I'm going to try making "Mexican Chocolate-Cinnamon Swirl Ice Cream."
Yum!
flojo
Friday, August 26, 2011
Peach Picking Time!!!
FINALLY - peaches at my favorite road side stand are ready!!
My brother Paul and I met at Grandpa's Fresh Market this morning to pick peaches. I've been going to this orchard since before 1992. I've kept a notebook of the flyer they would give out each summer with recipes and the dates of when their fruit would be ready, and I would attach my receipt to it. Back in '92 u-pick peaches cost .35 cent per pound and the farm was named Couey's Summer Fruits. The name change soon after Mr. Couey passed away. He is the "Grandpa" in the new name, and now the farm is run by his kids and grandkids.
We walked to the end of the road and turned left, then walked back down in between a couple of rows picking along the way.
Nice morning for picking. Last night at 2:15am I woke up to the flashing of lightening! I got up and sat in our window seat in the family room and watched big streaks of lightening up and down the valley east of us until 4:30am. It was soooooo awesome. Today we awoke to clear skies.
Peach fuzz...
After spending some time in the orchard picking yummy Suncrest peaches, we made our purchases and then headed east down Hwy 226 to Brewster Barn. Brewster Barn is 80 to 90 years old. It just opened last summer and is full of antiques and custom cowboy style furniture for sale.
This is upstairs!! And only 1/3 of the floor is in this shot.
The owner said these were for printing on walls to give the look of wallpaper? I might have to investigate this a little more.
Nice needlepoint footstool. But a little damaged, too bad.
Looking out the second floor window. This is looking West. The owner said he has 100 acres.
Fun old weight scale... (no, I didn't try it out, didn't want to break it!)
A nod to Citizen's Valley Bank, gone since the late 80's early 90's, it was bought by Key Bank. CVB was a nice little home town bank.
Metal trunk
Tabletop weaving loom
Maple syrup cans, I love me some maple!!!
We headed back to Albany, Paul to get back to work, and I needed to get busy with housework! BUT I got sidetracked into blogging.... :-)
Peaches I picked. Now u-pick costs .95 cents a pound. I have 6.5 lbs here.
And I added yet another page to my peach picking notebook, albeit homemade. Too bad Grandpa's stopped handing out their recipe and dates of harvest flyer...
Peach scented, summer love to you all,
Flojo
My brother Paul and I met at Grandpa's Fresh Market this morning to pick peaches. I've been going to this orchard since before 1992. I've kept a notebook of the flyer they would give out each summer with recipes and the dates of when their fruit would be ready, and I would attach my receipt to it. Back in '92 u-pick peaches cost .35 cent per pound and the farm was named Couey's Summer Fruits. The name change soon after Mr. Couey passed away. He is the "Grandpa" in the new name, and now the farm is run by his kids and grandkids.
We walked to the end of the road and turned left, then walked back down in between a couple of rows picking along the way.
Nice morning for picking. Last night at 2:15am I woke up to the flashing of lightening! I got up and sat in our window seat in the family room and watched big streaks of lightening up and down the valley east of us until 4:30am. It was soooooo awesome. Today we awoke to clear skies.
Peach fuzz...
After spending some time in the orchard picking yummy Suncrest peaches, we made our purchases and then headed east down Hwy 226 to Brewster Barn. Brewster Barn is 80 to 90 years old. It just opened last summer and is full of antiques and custom cowboy style furniture for sale.
This is upstairs!! And only 1/3 of the floor is in this shot.
The owner said these were for printing on walls to give the look of wallpaper? I might have to investigate this a little more.
Nice needlepoint footstool. But a little damaged, too bad.
Looking out the second floor window. This is looking West. The owner said he has 100 acres.
Fun old weight scale... (no, I didn't try it out, didn't want to break it!)
A nod to Citizen's Valley Bank, gone since the late 80's early 90's, it was bought by Key Bank. CVB was a nice little home town bank.
Metal trunk
Tabletop weaving loom
Maple syrup cans, I love me some maple!!!
We headed back to Albany, Paul to get back to work, and I needed to get busy with housework! BUT I got sidetracked into blogging.... :-)
Peaches I picked. Now u-pick costs .95 cents a pound. I have 6.5 lbs here.
And I added yet another page to my peach picking notebook, albeit homemade. Too bad Grandpa's stopped handing out their recipe and dates of harvest flyer...
Peach scented, summer love to you all,
Flojo
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