Peach Blueberry Crumble

Peach Blueberry Crumble

The making of Peach Blueberry Crumble

I don’t often make desserts. It’s just not my thing…sweets. Give me a good cheese plate and I’m a happy camper, but most desserts…meh. Not so much. However, sometimes the fruits of the season just call out. Scream out. Eat Me.

The summer fruit was screaming at me … EAT ME … so I did

I love summer peaches. I can cut them up, pour a little fresh cream over the top, and call that dessert. Guess you could just say I’m a peaches and cream kind of girl. And overall, if I’m having dessert, it usually contains fruit. So when I was at the Farmer’s Market the other day and could smell the peaches as I passed by the farm stand, I had to stop and get some. I mean, they were seriously fragrant. A little further down the aisle, blueberries. Peaches and blueberries; I knew exactly what I was going to make … Peach Blueberry Crumble.

So let’s start with the peaches

When choosing peaches for this dish, choose peaches that are ripe, but still firm. You want them to be able to hold their shape after the crumble is cooked.

Peel them and then cut them into bite-sized chunks. I like chunks better than slices for this preparation, but you could slice them as well. Place them in a bowl and add some lemon zest, juice (remember, zest first, juice second), sugar, (the sugar might need to be adjusted slightly depending on how sweet your peaches are, mine were very sweet, so I used only 1/2 cup, you might need a bit more) along with some cornstarch (or flour). As with all of my sweet dishes, I add a pinch of salt (which brings out the sweetness and enhances flavor) and a “dash” of pumpkin spice. If you don’t have pumpkin spice, use a dash of cinnamon.

The crumble part of the program

For the crumble part of the dish, I used a combination of flour and oatmeal, along with both granulated and brown sugar, a pinch of salt, dash of cinnamon and of course, cold unsalted butter that was cubed. Be sure the butter is cold.

Put those ingredients into the work bowl of a food processor and process, using on and off pulses, until it’s crumbled (thus the word Peach Blueberry Crumble). Once this is done, add 1/3 cup of toasted almond slices. You could use toasted walnuts as well. Pulse that a few times, just to break them up and incorporate them into the crumble, but you want to still be able to see the nuts so don’t overdo it. Of course, if you don’t like nuts, then you can omit them. Love cooking. Anyway YOU want it is how YOU can get it!

Save the blueberries for last

Blueberries. One of natures “superfoods”. Also, one of nature’s most staining foods. When you add blueberries to most dishes, you will find they are more than happy to turn whatever food you add them to, blue. I didn’t want my Peach Blueberry Crumble to be blue. I wanted it to be peachy. So I added the blueberries at the last minute.

I then quickly poured the mixture, juice and all,  into my baking dish; set it onto a parchment lined cookie sheet, crumbled the topping over and popped it into a 350º oven for about 40 minutes. You want to use either parchment paper or aluminum foil on your cookie sheet, and you want to put this on a cookie sheet, as it will bubble over and make a big mess. So unless you love cleaning your oven, I highly recommend using the cookie sheet.

After your time is up…

LindySez: Serve this warm, or at room temperature with some vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, or just plain old plain. 

I sent the left-overs to work with BB the next day, it was well received by the staff with one, who ate it for breakfast,  claiming it was “uber good”.  No worries to eat it for breakfast. I mean really, it’s got oatmeal and fruit in it. That sounds like breakfast food to me. How about you?

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