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OT - fresh Georgia peaches

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TTC
TTC Posts: 1,035
edited July 2015 in EggHead Forum


A few years ago a couple of guys from Nashville started making a weekly trip to South Georgia to get fresh peaches in season. The Peach Truck has since become quite popular, mostly because the peaches are flipping amazing. I got a case last week when they were at my local Ace Hardware for a few hours.

Our favorite way to eat them so far has been as a Peach Crisp with Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream. We literally have made 3 of these things in the last 4 days.

Peaches were peeled, chopped, mixed with lemon juice/lemon zest, and covered with a crisp topping (flour/butter/brown sugar, cinnamon)

Baked at 350 until topping set.

My family thinks it just might be the finest thing to ever come out of my kitchen.

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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    Man that Peach crisp looks great.  I live in GA and you would think they would be everywhere...but all the grocery stores me have peaches from California.   :o


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  • chrisc133
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    @SmokeyPitt we have Georgia and South Carolina peaches all over the place here in Augusta
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  • SmokeyPitt
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    chrisc133 said:
    @SmokeyPitt we have Georgia and South Carolina peaches all over the place here in Augusta
    @chrisc133- I'm up north of Atlanta in Woodstock.  I am going to check out the farmers market tomorrow and hope I find some. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • NDG
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    awesome - we just grilled some yesterday and it was sooo good.  I would like to try a large crisp before the season ends . . . do you have any tips on ways to peel?
    Columbus, OH

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  • TTC
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    Peel in same manner as tomatoes.

    Pierce the skin in a small x pattern on opposite end of core. Blanch in boiling water for 30-45 seconds. Pull and place in ice water bath to stop cooking process. Skin will peel right off, start where you made the x and it will slide right off.  

    XL BGE, Blackstone, Roccbox, Weber Gasser, Brown Water, Cigars --  Gallatin, TN

    2001 Mastercraft Maristar 230 VRS

    Ikon pass 

    Colorado in the winter and the Lake in the Summer
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    @ttc . . . Great.  Never heard of this method - thanks.
    Columbus, OH

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  • northGAcock
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    Cooked  a fresh peach cobbler this past weekend on the egg.....a mild little pecan smoked flavor took it up a notch.





    You can't beat fresh peaches.....Man was it good.
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  • Grillin_beers
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    That peach crisp recipe sounds like the one I make from Cooks Illustrated.  It's unbelievable.  The only part I don't like it peeling 8-10 peaches. 
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  • SmokeyPitt
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    Grillin_beers said:
    That peach crisp recipe sounds like the one I make from Cooks Illustrated.  It's unbelievable.  The only part I don't like it peeling 8-10 peaches. 
    @Grillin_beers did you happen to catch @TTC 's comment above on peeling technique?  That sounds like the way to do it.  

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Eggcelsior
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    A serrated peeler helps with fruit like peaches and tomatoes. I have a micro plane that works great.
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  • Grillin_beers
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    TTC said:

    Peel in same manner as tomatoes.

    Pierce the skin in a small x pattern on opposite end of core. Blanch in boiling water for 30-45 seconds. Pull and place in ice water bath to stop cooking process. Skin will peel right off, start where you made the x and it will slide right off.  

    Thanks so much for this man!  I've probably peeled 150 peaches in the last month and a half and I have hated peeling each and every one.  I'm making a cobbler tonight and will be doing this instead! 
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  • Grillin_beers
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    @SmokeyPitt I missed it man.  Thanks for pointing it out! 
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  • TTC
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    Glad to be able to help!

    XL BGE, Blackstone, Roccbox, Weber Gasser, Brown Water, Cigars --  Gallatin, TN

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  • DoubleEgger
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    The greatest ode to peaches 
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ
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  • SmokeyPitt
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    @DoubleEgger that song has already been stuck in my head all day ;)

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  • TTC
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    @doubleegger - I sang that song all weekend while I peeled, chopped, and packaged peaches for freezing (note to self, perhaps the 20lb case was a TAD too many peaches - though I will enjoy them for months to come)
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  • Biggreenpharmacist
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    My wife came home last week with a sack full of peaches she picked at a local orchard here in Little Rock. I still had a bunch of jalapeno's so I made a dozen jars of jalapeno peach jelly. Turned out great. 

    Little Rock, AR

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  • GATraveller
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    I'm spoiled by having in-laws with a peach orchard. I almost have to give away as much as we eat so they don't go bad. Few fruits better in the world.

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  • GATraveller
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    DoubleEgger said:
    The greatest ode to peaches 
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ
    That's a great pull. I haven't heard that song in forever. Now I'm going to be singing it for a week.

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
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