Peaches Foster

What do you do when Chris shows up from a trip to Costco with a flat of peaches?  You are: 1) secretly glad that you can eat them and have a new snack, 2) learn to experiment with peaches.  This led me to my latest creation while I will essentially call peaches foster, as it was more like bananas foster than peach cobbler.

1 peach
2 TBS butter
2 TBS vanilla
Cinnamon
Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Tapioca flour or starch

I cut up the peach and put it in a saute pan.  I added the butter and vanilla (since I make my own vanilla there was still a bit of rum left, so I would also add some rum if you want it to be yummy) here.  Stir the peaches into the vanilla and butter as the butter melts.  Let that mixture just start to boil then add the tapioca starch.  As the mixture starts to thicken add the cinnamon and sugar.  Serve over ice cream.  :)

I keep a cinnamon and sugar mixture around that I use for things and I used some for this recipe.  I used about two tablespoons of the mixture.  The mixture is made with 1 cup of white sugar with 2 TBS cinnamon and then mixed well. 

When I started this Chris told me he didn't want any because he was full.  Apparently he has a separate dessert stomach and decided he wanted some once I was done.  His word was, "yum." He also said that I could make it again, so I probably will be since I've got a lot more peaches to use!

Other than that, not much is new since last week.  We had a good weekend.  Chris and a friend went to help a widow -- they are trying to start a group of guys who get together and go help widows and single moms do handyman type things -- on Saturday while I stayed home with A.  We went to church and then made muffins.  Sunday we went to the bookstore to look for Eric Carle books, and found a few but didn't buy any.  We are wanting some more large board books to read for A since we've only got a couple.  She likes the pictures and the board books are stiff enough that we can prop them up and make her lift her head to see the pictures.  That was the extent of our weekend though.  I'm off to bed since everyone else is already sleeping and I need more than a 20 minute nap sometime in the next 12 hours.