From our Food Goddess, TaMara:
An unexpected family event means I’m on the road this week camped out at my brother’s house. So while everyone is at work and school I’m putting together dinner tonight.
I brought peaches from Palisades, but they will not make it into a recipe, they are too good by themselves and I didn’t have enough room (thanks Bixby) to bring an entire flat with me. But they are still the main ingredient in tonight’s featured recipes.
Speaking of peaches, Mrs. J’s Famous Peach Pie is pictured above and the recipe is here.
And if you have the grill going anyway, throw some peaches on for Grilled Peaches (recipe here).
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I’m making Chipotle-Orange Glaze Grilled Chicken (recipe here), Cucumber-Tomato Salad (our traditional family style recipe here) and of course
grilled cornsteamed rice (someone forgot the corn on the way home from work).For the pet lovers, Bixby had quite the adventures last week as a bunch of us celebrated my birthday. He wishes every week was like that. You can read about it here.
How’d your week go? Any fun plans on the menu this weekend? Anyone heading out to a state fair and want to report back on what they’re trying to deep fry this year? Share your tales of gastric adventures.
For tonight’s featured recipes, I’m posting two of my favorites to make when the peach basket overflows with Palisade Peach bounty. They are great with grilled chicken or pork, and the salsa makes a great side with fish.Peach Salsa
2 cups diced peeled peaches (2 to 3 peaches)
4 thinly sliced green onions
1/4 cup diced red bell pepper
2 tablespoons lime juice, about 1 medium lime
1 to 2 teaspoons finely minced hot or mild green chile pepper, or to taste
1 small jalapeño, seeded and chopped
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
dash ginger
dash garlic powder
1 tablespoon orange or pineapple juice
dash freshly ground black pepperMix together and let meld together for about 30 minutes or more before serving.
Peach Chutney
2 large peaches, peeled, pitted and chopped
4 green onions, chopped
½ cup golden raisins
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup apple cider vinegar
¼ tsp ground ginger or 1 tbsp minced fresh
¼ tsp chili powder
salt to taste
small sauce panAdd all ingredients to sauce pan, heat to boiling – stirring constantly, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, uncovered, until slightly thickened.
That’s it for this week. Excuse me while I try to figure out how to turn down the heat on the Chipotle-Orange glaze before my family disowns me. Whimps – TaMara
Roger Moore
I like pie!
jeffreyw
Mrs J’s Famous Peach Pie 3.0
Ruviana
The Bixby link took me to cucumber/tomato salad so I fix.
jeffreyw
I like peach pie ala mode!
NotMax
When it comes to personal peach preference there’s one standout, the Hale Haven.
Anne Laurie
@Ruviana: Whoops! Thanks for the heads-up, I’ve fixed it in the post.
Betty Cracker
We don’t have our state fair until February. People would die of sunstroke if they had it in August.
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker: Besides, February is when the tourists are there, right?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: I didn’t put you in the pie filter. At least I hope I didn’t.
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
Is that nutmeg on the ice cream? Because yum.
BillinGlendaleCA
No cooking here in the cave tonight, madame informed me that King Taco has opened a location in Glendale. It’s also too damned hot to cook.
ThresherK
My wife is the peach-squeezer in this house (ha!), and when we get enough I’m trying this.
Baud
Mmmmmm Pie.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Isn’t that a Hanson song?
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
If I knew the answer to that, I’d have to kill myself.
Another Holocene Human
Canadian blueberries, Californian strawberries, New England ice cream. No baking required. Sale price, also, too.
The Canadaberries were pretty tasty. Unlike XXMichigan blueberriesXX flavorless mush never again. (Noo joisey berries were pretty good last month, too.)
jeffreyw
@SiubhanDuinne: No, that’s moar cinnamon, but I like your suggestion!
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw:
Moar cinnamon, also good!
Edit: Cinnamon and nutmeg, BOTH good!!
Major Major Major Major
OT:
Apparently one time Townes Van Zandt got pulled over and the cops asked him what he does and he says songwriter. And they got the most pitying expressions like it was the most pathetic thing they’d ever heard.
So he’s like no, wait, I wrote Pancho and Lefty? You know that song!
And it turns out their cop nicknames were Pancho and Lefty.
Weird.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
I picked the right time to look in on BJ. Nice looking pie.
Of course, now I’m hungry…
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Aren’t those the guys from CHiPs?
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Hahaha! (Or, because I want to sound all young and hip and with-it, hehehe!)
I do not know who Townes Van Zandt is, and I do not know who Pancho and Lefty are, but that just seems like a wonderful story.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: This should help.
Yatsuno
@jeffreyw: @SiubhanDuinne: Minor note of caution: nutmeg is a hallucinogenic. It takes a really high dose, but that much nutmeg could have…consequences.
Steve from Antioch
Yet another thread that refuses to acknowledge that Black Lives Matter.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve from Antioch: Yet another thread in which you are a twatwaffle.
dexwood
@Roger Moore:
I like cake. I love pie.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: Pancho and Lefty is a pretty famous country song. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard(sp?) recorded the main version.
Omnes Omnibus
@dexwood: I have had years in which I requested a birthday pie instead of a cake.
dexwood
@Omnes Omnibus:
Me too. Skip the candles, ice cream on the side.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
I am so ignorant :-(
JPL
OT.. I’m listening to the Iowa Democratic wing ding… Lincoln Chafee is up on stage now and even though he says all the right things, he says it in such a way that it feels like a good night story.
Good Night Lincoln
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I had a deferred birthday dinner last night. At my request, scallops, Brussels sprouts, and mashed potatoes. Dessert was my all-time fave cake, a spice cake with caramel icing (actually a nice thick drizzly caramel-butterscotch-toffee sauce). The cake itself was very dense and rich, and it will take me days to work my way through the roughly 1/3 of a cake I took home with me, but boy, was it good!
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I think I picked it up from Sarah P&T.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Okay, maybe for my 75th birthday. A twatwaffle calls for a special occasion.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: This is from Heartworn Highway. Townes was a great songwriter but a very troubled soul. Better than Waiting Around to Die is worth a look even if you don’t watch the entire film.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@BillinGlendaleCA:
We had King Taco for dinner the night of our wedding. It was really awesome having a morning wedding and lunch reception instead of the traditional evening festivities — and a lot cheaper, too.
scav
@Yatsuno: I also read that nutmeg is soporific. This is getting interesting — one could begin to plan a whole evening around it.
raven
Nanci Griffith & Townes Van Zandt – “Tecumseh Valley,” 1993
Little Boots
I’m going to say this while there is pie. I was so awful one night, and I deserve the hatred. and I will try not to trouble you all, but I may get drunk and come back.
but I am truly sorry that I was ever such a dick that I would attack people on this site, and I will try never to do that again.
try, cause sometimes … but I do apologize for being so damn obnoxious to all of you. and I know some of you will never talk to me again, and I regret that a lot.
I am sorry.
lamh36
OT, but hey, Anne L, I know ya’ll love ya’ll some Charles Pierce, so I had to share.
If ya’ll decide to read any article published on NOLA, 10 years after Katrina…please read Charlie Pierce’s Esquire column.
My reaction:
Thank you Charlie Pierce
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/632363258314420224
SiubhanDuinne
@Little Boots:
Wow. I didn’t comment at all on the original or subsequent threads, but I read them all. That sounds like a for-real, sincere apology. I am changing my mind about you, and that’s a good thing, I think. Anyhow, well done, LB.
Little Boots
@SiubhanDuinne:
thanks, I really, really hate that me. that does happen sometimes. I really do.
Karen in GA
That’s funny — I just photographed a slice of peach pie earlier this evening for a photography club thing. Can’t get away from the stuff tonight.
By the way, the second I was finished my husband wolfed down my subject. I think this is why he encourages me to pursue my interests.
There’s a “good thing I’m not interested in _______” joke there. Have at it.
JPL
@Little Boots: I missed it.. so it goes without saying, no apologies necessary.
Mike J
Scott Walker is Groucho Marx and I claim my five pounds:
raven
never mind
JPL
@efgoldman: Lincoln actually mentioned that he agreed with Hillary on Iran. There was a big applause. He’s not taking the Trump approach. There is one job, he will never be hired for, and that’s a motivational speaker.
raven
@Mike J: where will the students sleep?
Little Boots
@raven: @raven:
honestly, I have, but, I don’t think I will.
you’re right of course, you’re right, but I don’t think I will.
mainmata
I’ve made a very similar peach salsa; such a nice combo of sweet and spicy.
raven
@Little Boots: rotsa ruck
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: Somewhat ironic, an unrepentant troll flaunting his wares in a thread dedicated to pie.
Mike J
@raven: Where they always sleep. In the classroom.
raven
@Mike J: And on that note. . . .
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): The new one in Glendale is at Maryland and Broadway.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Little Boots:
You should probably also apologize to the specific person you offended when/if you see her in a thread.
And the next time you want to use a slur to refer to someone, walk away from the computer.
MomSense
I went to a thoroughly delightful dinner party on Wednesday night. The dinner was middle eastern food and the dessert was a berry pie with vanilla ice cream. The pie had blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. So tasty.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
miss you, by the way.
Little Boots
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
I was ugly.
no excuse for ugly.
Little Boots
billin, no hating.
omnes, well, I sorta get the hating.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
That is a for-real fantastic piece of writing. I hope you’ll flag it to Anne Laurie’s attention for one of her “long read” threads. Occasionally Charlie is just a little too annoying and too clever by half, but when he is good there’s nobody better.
Little Boots
omnes, I was a dick, I hate that I was a dick. sorry.
MomSense
@lamh36:
Thank you for the recommendation.
Jordan Rules
@MomSense: Super co-sign. Thank you lamh36.
rikyrah
outside of pretty much anything chocolate, there is not a better dessert in the universe than a well done peach cobbler. damn, if it’s good…I can eat a whole pan of it by myself.
Steeplejack
@Little Boots:
Well said. Now just make it right with A Hip Hop Artist from Idaho.
Glidwrith
@rikyrah: For some reason, peaches just don’t work for me. Cherry cobbler now….hmmm, might have to do something about that this weekend.
Omnes Omnibus
@rikyrah: Stuff with raspberries is my downfall.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
miss you. i know you are pissed at me. sorry about that.
Little Boots
and also, omnes, miss you. you don’t need to dick around. I miss you, and that is okay.
Little Boots
and you, I miss all the time, steeplejack. you are the best.
Little Boots
I’m not a good guy. I wish I was, but I’m not.
I like all of you, but damn, sometimes, I am not a good guy.
Little Boots
everyone is angry.
Little Boots
omnes, do you hate me?
Little Boots
I was kinda crazy the other night. sorry. really, sorry.
I hate when I get like that. goddammit. I suck sometimes.
Little Boots
yikes, the anger.