Grilled Peaches

It's peach season!!!  Local peaches, in six quart baskets, are now everywhere, at all of the markets and grocery stores.  The season is so short, and like strawberries, the local peaches taste so much better.  They are juicy and sweeter, I think, because they have ripened on the tree and not had to travel for days in refrigerated trucks. I do not buy peaches for the rest of the year, because there is just no comparison.

Bob and Denis were over for dinner and there was a fresh basket of peaches sitting on the counter, so we decided to grill them on the barbecue.  They were fabulous.  Bob ran to the corner store for ice cream, and Denis cleaned and added the red currents.  A perfect summer desert, of hot and cold, sweet and tart.

Grilling the peaches is very simple - cut the peach in half, remove pit, and grill face down, on a hot barbecue until caramelized.  It takes maybe 5 minutes, depending on the temperature of the grill.