For this month's
You Want Pies with That? challenge, Rebecca of
Ezra Pound Cake and Mary of
Alpineberry came up with this month's theme:
Taste of Summer Pie!
Summer to me is all about stone fruit. I love stone fruit. I grew up eating peaches from my parent's backyard. The house always had apricots, plums and nectarines from the store. I remember when I discovered the goodness that is the white peach and nectarine. And I jump for joy when I first see the mango-flavored nectarine at the Farmer's Market at the beginning of summer. And don't get me started about my special relationship with the pluot...
Have you tried the Donut or Saturn peach? It's a sweet, squat white peach that, well, looks like a donut or the rings of Saturn. (Yes, I bet that one was hard to figure out! :)
By the way, I've used this green platter in a
few posts. It is a piece of
Mary Law Pottery. She has a great studio in Berkeley, CA. I bought it when I got my bread platter by
Gary Holt (
see this post), and I forgot to showcase this one! Check out
Mary Law's website...and visit her studio if you ever visit Northern California.
For this one, I wanted to keep the donut shape so I just rinsed it off and plopped the lovely fruit (with pit) on my completely misshapen pie crust. I had some frozen
ginger spice cookies I made last week so I crumbed some of them underneath. And I dropped some butter and sugar on top. Bake and eat. Yum.
Recipe:
Pie Crust: 1 1/4 c flour, dash of salt, 1 stick butter, 2 1/2 T ice water (a variation of
Martha Stewart's Pie Crust)
Saturn or Donut Peach
Ginger Spice Cookie crumbs
