Peaches!

My parents have two peach trees in the backyard and the squirrels ALWAYS get them before they're ripe enough to pick. This year we won! My dad decided to shoot them! So, low and behold we have peaches! LOTS and LOTS of peaches! 

This is the first bag I picked standing in the scorching 107 degree sun! I've made peach cobbler, peach smoothies, put several bags in the freezer, and of course I shared with friends. They were sooooo yummy!

This is the second batch I picked. Some of them were a little yucky but I used all that I could and tossed the rest. I spent a couple of hours peeling and cutting them up until I had this.

When I plugged the food processor up to chop them up (because who wants to chop nine cups of sticky, slimy peaches by hand?) nothing happened! I messed and messed with it. Still nothing. So. I went to plan B. The Blender. Failed again. I guess they're really only made for liquids and to chop ice. I moved on to plan C. The Pampered Chef hand chopper. Boy was it messy and sticky, but it did the job!

 Simmering on the stove. The kitchen can get pretty steamy with water bath boiling along with the fruit. I just think of it as a steam facial. Aren't they good for your pores?

The finished product. Of course I had toast for breakfast this morning, so yummy!!

I enjoy making jam and canning other things each summer (I made 15 jars of corn relish last week). I remember helping by grandmother do this every summer as a child (they lived next door to me growing up). There are blackberries to be picked at my papaw's house, so that will be my next canning event. Kevin's been begging for blackberry cobbler too. It's his favorite!