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I don’t really care much about dessert. I am the type of eater who fills up pretty quickly to the point where people question if I eat enough, but gets hungry an hour after a meal. It’s just the way my body works, and I have learned to roll with it throughout the years. So, by the time dessert at a restaurant arrives, I usually don’t even want it; stuffing it in just doesn’t feel good.

There are of course always those exceptions, and I do like a snack an hour or two after dinner at home, especially when it involves incredible, seasonal local fruit.

I am trying to completely take advantage of local peaches until they are all gone, so last night I whipped up a sweet and creamy treat using a few peaches, goat cheese, and honey.

It couldn’t be any easier, I cut the peaches in half and pitted them, then placed them in a pie plate in the oven at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Once the 10 minutes were over, I turned the oven to broil for another 2 minutes.

I removed the peach halves from the oven and plated them on a simple white salad plate, then stuffed each half with crumbled goat cheese.

roasted peaches

The final step was to drizzle honey over the peaches and a little on the plate for decoration. . . and dipping :)

roasted peaches

I absolutely loved this dessert with its gentle, natural sweetness from the peaches and the creaminess of the goat cheese. My husband thought it was “weird” but he also liked it. Boys. . .

Are you a dessert person or would you rather a good appetizer?

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I couldn’t resist. I am fully and completely in love with summer. Here is why:

Siena Farms

Siena Farms’ sunflowers filled the Boylston Street side of the market, a tiny bit of Tuscany in Boston.

summer flowers summer flowers

It was so beautiful and colorful it was almost dizzying.

Basil and Sunflowers

challah

Challah bread from Tatte

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Apples and peaches for pies, crisps, salads, and snacks. The arrival of apples makes me look forward to autumn. 

apples and peaches

Perhaps my favorite part of summer, fresh, local tomatoes. None of those white-fleshed, dry winter tomatoes. I need to learn to do some canning.

tomatoes and basil

My farm basket, ingredients to recreate the couscous dish I had at Zazu in Santa Rosa.

zucchini, onions, tomatoes

The market was full of sweet corn, perfect for making sriracha corn and shrimp salad.

sweet corn

Japanese eggplant, ready for a coconut curry or a nice pasta sauce. . . the colors at the market are nature’s art.

Japanese Eggplant 

Yes, the Copley Farmers’ Market is a great reminder that life is very good when things seem a little too hard. :)

How do you snap out of a funk and remember how great life truly is?

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Is there anything better? A farmer’s market on a hot day at the height of summer, abundant with nature’s best food, locally baked goods, and the people whose hands are responsible for the labors of love that bring it all to us. I have been missing out on filling my kitchen with farmer’s market finds as I have had a bunch of after work activities = lots of wilted kale and other veggies that did NOT like to go to events. But yesterday I knew I was going straight home, so I stocked up.

Blueberries were everywhere. I planned on cooking with them, maybe a pie or a tart or just a salad, but I ate them.

farmer's market blueberries

blueberries Copley Square Market

I picked up some peaches, not yet ripe, for snacking on later in the weekend. I hope they are the type that make juice dribble down my chin and ruin my clothes like I am 5 years old :)

farmer's market peaches

My basket of veggies at Siena Farms included some purple kale, sweet onions, corn, and carrots.

my farmer's market shopping

multi-colored carrots Copley Square Farmer's Market

I didn’t buy any, but this mix of greens and flower petals was too pretty to NOT take a photo of them. 

mixed greens and edible flowers

When I finally got home after a long day, we had a simple dinner of buttered lobster rolls on a farmer’s market baguette, corn with sriracha, and tomato salad, a mix of onions, tomatoes, olive oil, salt, and pepper.

tomato salad

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Served with a bottle of chilled La Vigne di Alice Brut Rosé, a wine with an intense nose of rose petals and flavors that are sweet and pleasant with lovely bubbles.

The market and dinner with my hubby were definitely the highlights of my Friday which was otherwise painfully boring. Have you ever felt like you have outgrown a job? I think that’s me right now.

What was the highlight of your Friday?

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