Just Peachy!

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

     We are up to our elbows in peaches around here!  Got the peach halves bottled and the peach jam finished.  Two more items to add to the storage shelves in the basement.

     Here's the quilt I helped my daughter make (which means I did most of it).  Last fall she won a jelly roll and a fifty dollar gift certificate when we did the shop hop.  She bought minky  for the backing with the gift certificate.  It took us a year but we finished it up.

Just a couple of recipes for the peaches here.  My kids enjoyed the muffins and my husband liked the French Toast.

Oatmeal Peach Muffins

¾ cup quick cooking oats                                1 cup flour

½ cup milk                                                       1 tsp. baking powder

½ cup brown sugar                                         ½ tsp. baking soda

¼ cup oil                                                          ½ tsp. salt

2 eggs                                                              1/2 tsp. cinnamon      

1 tsp. vanilla                                                    ½ tsp. ginger

                                                                                                1 cup finely diced peaches

    Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Line muffin pan with paper liners.  In a large bowl, mix together oats, milk, brown sugar, oil and eggs.  In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and ginger.  Stir flour mixture into egg mixture until just moistened.  Fold in peaches.  Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan.  Sprinkle tops with a few regular oatmeal flakes.  Bake for 18-20 minutes.

 

 

Peach French Toast Bake

½ cup brown sugar                                                     5 beaten eggs

¼ cup butter                                                                1 cup milk

1 Tbsp. water                                                              1 tsp. vanilla

5 cups sliced peaches                                                 1 loaf wheat French bread

1 Tbsp.  lemon juice                                                    ¼ tsp. cinnamon

Combine brown sugar, butter and water in a small saucepan.  Bring to a boil and then spread in a 9x13” baking dish that has been sprayed with cooking spray.  Top with sliced peaches that have been mixed with the lemon juice.  Slice bread in ¾” slices and arrange on top of peaches.  Mix eggs, milk and vanilla in a medium bowl. Pour egg mixture over bread and peaches in baking dish.  Sprinkle with cinnamon.  Cover and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.  Uncover and bake in a 350 degree oven for 40 minutes. Spoon out each serving with peaches on top.   No need for syrup. 

     For Labor Day, we spent the day at Mirror Lake in the Uintah Mountains.  The guys got to do some fishing and I finally got to spend some time in the canoe.  The grand kids came and we all enjoyed a nice picnic near the shore.  We got rained on a little bit but not bad.  My son brought his unicycle and managed to find a place to ride it along the shore trail.  He also caught the tiniest toad I have ever seen in my life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        It's about time for another quilting novel.  I read The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini a few years back and I just finished another of her books called  Round Robin.  I enjoyed them both.