Peach Shortbread

It is a cold and windy day today... and while it isn't raining, I just don't have the heart to go outside. Days like this require multiple projects or Sorin goes a little CRAZY staying inside all day. Early this morning I found that some of my VERY EXPENSIVE organic peaches had gotten moldy before they even were ripe, and realized that - a. I had to use the rest of them or they would follow quickly behind the others and b. I shouldn't buy them again this season. So I decided that our project was going to be Peach Shortbread.

Now, Sorin and I have - pretty much - the same taste in food. We both love pasta with a good tomato sauce made from

scratch, or sautéed vegetables with hint of kosher salt and lots of pepper, or a good honey mustard vinaigrette. We love tuna melts with tomatoes from the garden and bread and butter pickles, whole wheat pancakes, and oatmeal with cranberries and just a touch of brown sugar, and most of all we LOVE chips! (this is a terrible case of nature vs. nurture - I know).

Peach shortbread, I thought, would be a treat for us both. I am not that into sweets (Sorin and I differ on that point). I love shortbread, or tart

pies, and anything chocolate but could take or

leave cake and ice cream, and cookies (with the exception of

Han's hot-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies, my mom's chocolate chip cookies, and my mother-in-law's cherry chip cookies). Now that I'm writing this, I take it back - I do like sweets - just certain ones. And Sorin has NEVER met a peach he did not like. So when I found this recipe on this blog I knew I

had to make it. It was a great recipe to make with Sorin.

Not a lot of ingredients, just the right amount of

stirring and a lot of patting dough into the

baking pan. Not to mention all the peaches you can eat, cause they've GOT TO GO!

So as you can see from these pictures, Sorin had

a utensil in one hand and a peach in the other at all times. Unless I told him to put the peach down and he did this -

He dutifully cut the butter into the flour

and patted the dough into the pan. And then I said, "Ok - it's time to put the peaches on top," and I turned around and saw this -

And VOILA! Our finished project.

Now go and make this because it is UNBELIEVABLY good. You KNOW something is good when you give it to Sorin, he gobbles it up and then looks at you and says,

"More."