• Summer

    Chilled Peaches in Honey & Wine

    Chilled peaches in honey and wine is an Italian remedy for a hot summer night. This peach dessert uses the ripened fruit of late summer – the heavily laden peaches, at the height of their season, that are so ripe and full that even touching them risks bruising.  Those peaches…

  • Autumn

    Chilled Pears Bordelaise

    “The great white Pear tree Dropped with dew From leaves and blossom Under the heavens Of happy blue.” -Jean Ingelow The voluptuous and succulent pear.  It’s that time of year when these curvy fruits begin to fill up baskets and bins at the local farm markets.  Although their juicy sweetness…