PEACH BLUEBERRY CRISP

PEACH BLUEBERRY CRISP
Last night I had rice and peas, a staple here at my house, that, and the ever popular dinner of popcorn and white wine sprinter has kept this single cook very happy, perhaps not nutritionally sustained but content.

Tonight the temperature outside has dropped and the oven is on! I am making a Peach & Blueberry crisp. I was trying to follow the recipe in Ina Garten’s cookbook Barefoot Contessa at Home while on the phone to Lyn and mixed up the crumble and the fruit portions so I dropped our call and resorted to scooping flour off the top of the peaches, re-measured the sugar and realizing I had no lemons for the zest and juice that it called for. So here is what I ended up doing:
PEACH AND BERRY CRISP
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and butter ramekins or a baking dish
For the Fruit:
6 ripe, peeled and sliced peaches
3teaspoons of orange juice
½ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup rice flour
(Who knows how much flour… after spilling and scooping off excess)
1-pint blueberries
Add all above ingredients in a bowl and toss lightly and set aside.

For the crisp
1 cup spelt flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
¼ cup light brown sugar
1/3 teaspoon kosher salt
¼ pound (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, diced
Measure all above ingredients into a sieve and sift into a bowl. Dice your butter and toss each piece into the flour mixture and toss so that each piece is coated and begin to press the butter pieces between your fingers into the flour. Do this until it is the consistency of peas and sand. You don’t want to over work this step and make it greasy. I greased an oval baker I have, I am sorry I don’t know what size it is poured the fruit mixture in and leveled it out. I placed this on a sheet of parchment on a cookie sheet and sprinkled the crumble over the fruit leveling it out almost to the edges of the dish. Place in the middle part of the oven and bake for 40 – 45 minutes until the edges are brown and bubbly. It is in the oven now and I will let you know how it turns out!

Don't forget the Tillamook vanilla bean ice cream! It was delicious!