Front Porch Farmstand

I took most of August off from my professional commitments to make sure our kids got off to a good start and routine for the school year. The first day of September saw me teaching a room full of the nicest people you’ll ever meet how to make peach preserves. Once the cutting began, the room was filled with the aroma of sweet Isom's Orchard peaches and everyone was in heaven. I surprised them by pulling half a gallon of homemade vanilla ice cream out of the freezer and spooned some of their hot peaches over it for them to eat. Suddenly, the room fell quiet except for the occasional lip smack and bowl scrape. I filled the Farmstand with the leftover peaches today. Dice them and heat over medium high heat with sugar (usually 2:1 peaches:sugar in terms of volume). Stir constantly and when the fruit is soft and nearly translucent, pour it over vanilla ice cream. So good!

Fresh pepperoni rolls out for an afternoon snack! These are a WV classic, invented by Italian-American coal miners’ wives as a portable meal to send underground with their husbands and sons. Enjoy!

For this week’s Farmstand Friday, we put out “family reunion cookies”. They are peanut butter cookies that first had as a little girl at a family reunion. Now I take them to my own family reunions. Enjoy!