Extended Weekend: The Sweetest Birthday Peaches

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With all the great recipes presented on Saturday dessert was lacking. That deficit is made up today and in the sweetest celebratory way.



Ricotta with Warm Peaches

Fresh Whole Milk Ricotta, 500 grams
Hazelnuts, toasted, crushed 250 grams
Honey, one half cup
Orange juice, freshly squeezed, one quarter cup
Peaches, four fresh, pitted and cut into wedges




























1. Shape the ricotta with an ice cream scoop, arranging two scoops on each of four plates.
2. Top with the hazelnuts and one quarter cup of the honey.
3. Warm the remaining honey; add the orange juice and cook until caramelized, c. three minutes.
4. Add the peaches and cook two minutes more.
5. Arrange the peaches around the ricotta scoops.



This time of year peaches are at their best. It is, after all, their season, which brings to mind a peach of a person whose birthday is today--the multi-talented and all the way through beautiful person, Ilene Kristen. There is much wished for her as she greets this new day in her existence. She is always at her best. May her abundant talent be appreciated. May she get everything she wishes for.



Let's hope she has awakened to beautiful things coming her way.

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