Peachy Keen

 Linking with Joanne today for Talking About It Tuesdays

A little over a week ago hubs and I went to a country orchard to pick peaches. I know everyone hears the word peaches and thinks Georgia, but did you know South Carolina grows more peaches than Georgia? True story. 

And this year they're exceptional. Some of the trees had morning glory vines growing up their trunks which made them extra pretty. 

We probably came home with about 30 or so peaches and have enjoyed them so much. 

We ate quite a few of them for breakfast, sliced atop some plain yogurt, sprinkled with granola, sliced almonds, and a drizzle of honey. If we had other berries in the frig we added those too. 

The breakfast of champions. 

I like to make a peach cobbler once every summer so that was on our July menu. I love Paula Deen's recipe (linked) and it makes a lot. Since it was just hubs and I here for the consuming I made one recipe, but put it in two pans and that worked out fine. 

We had one to keep and I shared the other pan with friends. I like vanilla ice cream on mine, but whipped cream is good too. 

One night hubs roasted peaches on the grill. We followed this recipe but I used cinnamon instead of pumpkin pie spice. 

 A warm peach with a dollop of whipped cream on top is a really yummy dessert. 

Up close the bowl looks like it needs to go in the dishwasher, but it's just the sugary peach juice that dripped while moving from the grill to the bowl. 

This week I was down to the last few, and had about five peaches left that I worried were going to go mushy. On Monday I made the most scrumptious (if I do say so myself) peach bars I found by randomly searching Pinterest. 

Sidebar here, but does anyone else get super frustrated by all the ads and videos that pop up when you're trying to read a recipe on Pinterest? 

I dropped the ball in terms of picture taking but here's the pan just before it went into the oven. 

I should have snapped a picture of the bars on a tray, but here's a snap of what they look like cooked. 

I had some women here for a meeting Monday afternoon and everyone wanted the recipe. They're similar to a lemon bar, except of course are made with peaches instead of lemons, and the filling sets up nicer I think. The texture is good, and the topping does its job by quite literally sending it over the top. 

And now I'm a little bit sad we're out of peaches. Happy Tuesday!