Stephanie says

I cranked up the tunes and caught a sound familiar to my ear.  Okay, I know who's playing - it's just an elusive tease for a few moments.  I'm thinking, thinking, thinking although distractedly because Rosey Dog is sitting in the passenger seat.  She doesn't like to ride in the car, never has, and she is pushing ten years now.  A nervous traveler at best, she typically whines at the onset and then slobbers copiously until released from the prison of the car. My aim is to ignore her, (while I protect my coffee from slime.)  Which I do trying to puzzle who is this artist?  I know.  Come on.  The song changes and suddenly I realize it's Elliot Smith.  I'm thinking wow, KRVM is doing a feature on Elliot Smith simultaneously with the thought no wonder this was familiar, a bit shamefacedly. We're rolling down I5 and the Elliot Smith tunes keep on playing.  Not a commercial break.  I thinking this is really great.  We've gone abou...

Picked this morning from a young tree.  This is the first real crop and this is just about all of it. Pretty, aren't they?  And ever so tasty sliced onto my morning cereal. The following is a killer peach pie recipe from America's Test Kitchen.  They've never steered me wrong.

Bright spot of color on an otherwise gray summer day I bought a peach tree so I could try peach leaf ice cream.   That tree has been in the ground four years and this year I'm getting a few peaches AND peach leaf ice cream! I don't have an ice cream maker, (criminal, right?) but Mr. Terry does and likes to make all manner of ice cream, including a killer cinnamon, so volunteered to make the recipe I'd found. With 12 fresh peach leaves, make ice cream he did.  In the process his house smelled like an Italian bakery.  Which opens another thought, peach leaf potpourri. Following is the recipe we used @ Endless Ice Cream- Peach Leaf  I meant to take a photo but ate it all instead.  Creamy almond, mmmmm. Peach Leaf Ice Cream Make about 1 quart Ingredients 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 3/4 cup sugar a large pinch of salt 12 unsprayed peach leaves, coarsely chopped 6 large egg yolks Method In a 4-quart saucepan, stir a...