Peaches

Peach Chutney with fresh ginger and lime juice is the perfect topping for your grilled meats or your holiday ham! Fruit chutneys are excellent for adding that extra touch of flavor to meat, poultry, or fish. And almost any fruit can be made into a chutney, which is basically a relish. Around the holidays, I …

Peach Cobbler made with fresh or frozen peaches, a touch of cinnamon, brown sugar, and a little half and half to make the easy crust rich and delicious. Gorgeous round peaches hanging from those pretty trees that dot the landscape in middle Georgia are a sure sign that summer has arrived. And that means it’s …

Toasted Cream Cheese Pound Cake flavored with butter and broiled just long enough to get toasty and brown! This is so perfect with a little fruit compote or caramel sauce! We have had a few glorious days here in Georgia, with cool breezes teasing us as the last vestiges of summer begin to fade into fall. Of …

Have you ever made granola? Doesn’t that sound like a flower child sort of thing to do? Y’all, I promise—if you make homemade granola you will never want to buy granola from any store ever again! It is so, so easy and it is soooooo good and way better than store-bought. We’ve been eating a …

Sometimes, in the midst of life and its mysterious happenings, it can seem frivolous to me to sit down and write about things like Peach and Blueberry Upside-Down Cake. Just before I started this post, I received a text from my daughter telling me about a young friend’s husband who had just passed from cancer. …

There’s a window right in front of my desk, and outside that window are the branches of a dogwood tree. Those branches sway with the slightest wind, scratching and tapping the glass and always making me thing there’s a visitor wanting to come in for a cup of tea. One of those branches already has …