Peaches!

Every year a lady at work sells Colorado Peaches as a fundraiser for her community. Last year I split a crate with a friend. They were so good that I decided to buy a whole crate this year. Boy, that's a lot of peaches! Ben is convinced that we won't be able to eat them all. He may be right. So we decided on some peach experiments in the kitchen...

First thing we tried was a peach smoothie. It was pretty tasty. We didn't have the vanilla soy milk, so we used regular milk and a splash of vanilla. The only problem with this experiment was our equipment... we realized that our blender doesn't work. So I made it using a food processor. It worked ok, but there were still ice chunks and there was a little too much smoothie and it started to ooze out the side.

Then we tried peach salsa. It turned to be a longer project than we had thought. Turns out it takes a long time to chop everything! We used only three cups of peaches and two pounds of tomatoes. It's not very tomatoey, so next time we may add even more tomatoes. It's got a little kick (at least I think so) but it's pretty darn good. Since we were running low on time (Chuck, Michelle, Liam and Grant were over for dinner) we didn't can the salsa. And I'm not sure if we will. Due to using less peaches, we don't have the volume we expected, so I think we will just eat it. :)

Our last peach experiment is slated for this afternoon - Peach Lemonade. I'm looking forward to it!