Summer Stone Fruit

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Summer Stone Fruit There’s nothing quite like a ripe peach. Its bright orange flesh and deep fragrance alone are enough to get your mouth watering; the flavor of a just-picked peach, honey-tinged and yielding to the slightest touch, is simply incomparable.

Lucky for us, now’s the time to get your fill of all stone fruits: peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums and all the fun man-made hybrid derivatives. Ripe for the pickin’, we like to enjoy them straight from the market, but there’s an endless array of recipes begging to be tried this season.

And don’t worry if you find yourself with a surplus; stone fruit are hardy enough for the freezer and perfect for preserves, guaranteed to bring a fresh burst of summer sweetness to your breakfast table months down the line.

What are your favorite ways to enjoy summer’s stone fruit?

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Soulkeeper

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I think someone should take a look at the recipe for Nectarine-Raspberry Hand Pie. Below is the list of ingredients that shows. I do not believe this is correct.

Ingredients:

* 1/4 cup fresh raspberries
* 2 tablespoons plus 1 tsp. sugar
* 1 sheet frozen puff pastry (1/2 of a 17.3-oz. package), thawed
* 1 large egg
* 1 sheet frozen puff pastry (1/2 of a 17.3-oz. package), thawed
* 1/4 cup fresh raspberries
* 2 tablespoons plus 1 tsp. sugar
* 1 large egg
* 1 medium nectarine, pitted, cut into 1/2-inch chunks
* 1 medium nectarine, pitted, cut into 1/2-inch chunks

Aug 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM