The recipe for this week for French Fridays with Dorie from Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table cookbook, is Peach Melba, found on page 477-478. The recipe is also Here as Dorie herself linked to it on her site.
Ingredient list: peaches,
sugar, lemon zest, vanilla bean,Chambord (or Creme de Cassis or Creme
de Framboise), lemon juice, raspberries, vanilla ice cream, whipped
cream, and toasted almonds (optional, I didn't want to use these as
quite frankly, I just didn't want this dessert to crunch).
This is more
than just peaches tossed in a pretty glass with some ice cream,
raspberries, and whipped cream. (Although you could do that and be a
happy camper as well.) One has to poach, peel, and again poach the peaches, make a
syrup for them to rest in, make a raspberry sauce, strain it, add a
little of the peach syrup, cool everything down in the frig, and then
assemble it.
I highly recommend going this route...the taste is truly
wonderful, tossing peaches, raspberries, ice cream, and whipped cream in
a pretty glass just can't compare. At all. Time well spent. Of course
this cannot in good conscience be a daily or weekly thing, but during
peach season, I think one can make a case for at least once, maybe
twice. Delicious. Definitely a treat for fresh peach season!
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