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Friday Recipe Exchange: On the Road

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jeffreyw peach pie

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 corn steamed 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.

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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 pepper

Mix 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 pan

Add 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

Reader Interactions

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  7. 7.

    Betty Cracker

    We don’t have our state fair until February. People would die of sunstroke if they had it in August.

  11. 11.

    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.

  12. 12.

    ThresherK

    My wife is the peach-squeezer in this house (ha!), and when we get enough I’m trying this.

  16. 16.

    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.)

  19. 19.

    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.

  22. 22.

    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.

  32. 32.

    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

  33. 33.

    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!

  38. 38.

    scav

    @Yatsuno: I also read that nutmeg is soporific. This is getting interesting — one could begin to plan a whole evening around it.

  39. 39.

    raven

    Nanci Griffith & Townes Van Zandt – “Tecumseh Valley,” 1993

    The name she gave was Caroline
    Daughter of a miner
    Her ways were free
    It seemed to me
    That sunshine walked beside her

    She came from Spencer
    Across the hill
    She said her pa had sent her
    ’cause the coal was low
    And soon the snow
    Would turn the skies to winter

    She said she’d come
    To look for work
    She was not seeking favors
    And for a dime a day
    And a place to stay
    She’d turn those hands to labor

    But the times were hard, Lord,
    The jobs were few
    All through Tecumseh valley
    But she asked around
    And a job she found
    Tending bar at Gypsy Sally’s

    She saved enough to get back home
    When spring replaced the winter
    But her dreams were denied
    Her pa had died
    The word come down from Spencer

    So she turned to whorin’ out on the streets
    With all the lust inside her
    And it was many a man
    Returned again
    To lay himself beside her

    They found her down beneath the stairs
    That led to Gypsy Sally’s
    In her hand when she died
    Was a note that cried
    Fare thee well
    Tecumseh valley

    The name she gave was Caroline
    Daughter of a miner
    Her ways were free
    It seemed to me
    That sunshine walked beside her

  40. 40.

    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.

  41. 41.

    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:

    Wow…just wow.

    Beautifully written, beautifully done. As a NOLA native and Katrina survivor, I just had to say thank you. After reading a few articles so far that seem to almost revel in the changes that have occurred in NOLA since Katrina without acknowledging how much pain and hurt and sacrifice happened and are still happening these 10 years since, I have to say your article made me both emotional and satisfied that someone seem to finally get it.

    Beautifully written, beautifully done. I’ll be sharing this far an wide to my NOLA peeps.

    Thank you Charlie Pierce

    twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/632363258314420224

  42. 42.

    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.

  44. 44.

    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.

  46. 46.

    Mike J

    Scott Walker is Groucho Marx and I claim my five pounds:

    Wagstaff: Have we got a stadium?
    Professor One: Yes.
    Wagstaff: Have we got a college?
    Professor One: Yes.
    Wagstaff: Well, we can’t support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.

  48. 48.

    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.

  58. 58.

    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.

  62. 62.

    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.

  66. 66.

    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.

  68. 68.

    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.

  71. 71.

    Little Boots

    and also, omnes, miss you. you don’t need to dick around. I miss you, and that is okay.

  73. 73.

    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.

  76. 76.

    Little Boots

    I was kinda crazy the other night. sorry. really, sorry.

    I hate when I get like that. goddammit. I suck sometimes.

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