Peaches and Cream Pop Tarts

The peach love continues this week with some awesome breakfast pastries. Pop tarts have been on my list of things to bake for some time now. Yes, I admit to having eaten them as a kid. I remember the foil packaging, the variety of flavours, and the fake, fake taste. I think I liked the Strawberry flavour the best, mainly because of the rainbow sprinkles dotting the white icing. Yeah...I ate with my eyes back in the day...

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The Sweeter Side of Peaches

The other day, I posted about peaches being highlighted in savoury dishes. Today, we take a sweeter look at peaches. I love baking with stone fruits. They hold up so well after being exposed to the elements of heat, and their flavours get intensified. Making the most of all the fruits I recently picked, I made a summer fruit crisp with peaches, apricots, cherries, and handful of blueberries for good measure.

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Peaches Galore!

I have been basking in sweet, juicy Ontario peaches all this week. It's perhaps one of my favourite summer fruits and one of the representative fruits of summer in my opinion (along with cherries). My friend and I went peach picking in the Niagara region last weekend, which resulted in me coming home with 27 pounds of fruit. With so much fruit, super hot weather, no A/C, and only one person, I had to get through this fruit fast before it spoiled. So if I wasn't preserving peaches, then I was eating them or working them into my weekly menu.

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Dip Into Something Sweet & Sour

What's better than chips and salsa?

Peach salsa!!

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Wordless Wednesday #9: Fuzzy Peaches

Millions of Peaches, Peaches For Me

One of my all-time favourite summer fruits is peaches. I can never get enough of them when peach season rolls around. Their fuzzy skin blushed red. Their fragrant smell. Sweet flesh. Juices dripping down your chin and arm.

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Betcha' Can't Have Just One Slice

It's no surprise that I have a major sweet tooth, and if I come across something I really like, well...let's just say it's hard for me to stop wanting more.

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