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Pictured Recipe: Peach & Blueberry Cobbler

Healthy Peach Recipes

I no longer live down the road from the Pearsons, but when I need especially juicy and delicious peaches for a dish like Arugula Salad with Honey-Drizzled Peaches, I have them shipped from Pearson Farm. That way I know they’ll be the best quality, and I can feel good about supporting a family farm and people I know.

In keeping with the region’s legendary sweet tooth, many Southern recipes can quickly turn the healthful peach into something terribly unvirtuous, though delicious. Recipes are often along the lines of the peach ice cream my grandmother made, laced with eggs and heavy cream, that we would churn on the side porch. Two of my favorites were Grandma’s fried peach pies, deep-fried half-moons of biscuit dough filled with sugar and chopped peaches, and Mama’s buttery peach cobber, baked in a cast-iron skillet. I’ve created six peach recipes that have plenty of the tasty Southern charm I grew up with, such as the peach popsicles that are not only good, they’re good for you. I’ve even made over my mama’s buttery cobbler: healthier than usual but still a perfect celebration of the delicious peach. Bon appétit, y’all!

Virginia Willis is a cook, teacher, author and culinary television producer. Her new book is Bon Appétit, Y’all! Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking (Ten Speed Press, 2008).

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