I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m not big on complicated recipes around here.
For one, I have a life and don’t have enough hours in my day during the work week (okay, ever) to spend too much time in my kitchen, despite the fact that I love cooking. Two, complicated recipes just make me crabby. They’re all like “go buy 23092309 different ingredients at 1203929 stores. Then when you get home, follow these 3092309198 steps. I swear it will only take 10 minutes!”
Liars.
The Husband was ever so sweet the other day and brought me home a peck of peaches from Michigan. The second he brought them home I started dreaming of cobblers and warm peaches over coconut milk ice cream and pies and muffins. Obviously I wanted it all. You know when I really want it all though? January. When the only fresh fruit in sight is from a country thousands of miles away and it costs like $4.00 for one peach. Thanks, but no thanks.
I decided to take these peaches at their peak ripeness (who really uses phrases like that?) and freeze the heck out of them so when it is 10 degrees outside and there is snow on the ground (ew.), I can pull some out and be reminded that summer really does exist, an that it is not a figment of my imagination.
With that being said, I’m not one to hem and haw over things like following directions or overcomplicating things. Boiling water to blanch the peaches? No thanks. Ice bath so the skin just magically falls off? Um, who are you and how do you make that happen because it’s never happened to me before.
Nope, this girl takes the easy way out — all you need is a knife, a vegetable peeler, and some freezer bags.
Okay, and maybe some agave and lemon juice. But that’s it, I swear!
Oh, an a sharpie to write the word “peaches” on your bag as if you wouldn’t know that’s what’s in there. And the date, because apparently things like that matter, even though they really don’t. Things last forever in the freezer, don’t they? Don’t crush my dreams please.
Freezing Fresh Peaches
Difficulty: Easy!
Prep Time: 30 minutes
- all the peaches that you want to freeze (I froze about 20, which gave me 3 quart sized bags)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 tbsp. agave (or more depending on your desired level of sweetness)
- vegetable peeler
- freezer plastic bags
Directions:
- Using a vegetable peeler, peel away the skin on your peaches.
- Cut the peaches into your desired slices (I just sliced mine, but you could halve them, cube them, dice them, etc.)
- Place the cut peaches into freezer bags, filling about 2/3 of the way.
- In a separate bowl, combine the agave and lemon juice and stir to combine.
- Pour an equal portion of lemon juice mixture over your sliced peaches.
- Seal the bags with the peaches, making sure to get all the air out of the bags.
- Stick in the freezer and take out when needed during the winter!
This task really reminded me that summer is for real ending. So I heated up some of the peaches, poured them over my coconut milk ice cream, and wallowed in my end of summer depression.
The end.
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