Honey Baked Peaches

You know those word association games/tests that psychologists (at least on TV) use to gain deep insight into your psyche? You know the one – they ask you to say the first word that pops into your mind when they say something seemingly innocuous like “mother” and then learn a lot about you depending on whether you reply with “love,” “lipstick,” “lazy,” or “laundry.” (Side note: this is not to say that those are my first four words for my mother; I was just going for some alliteration for your Sunday evening!) Well somehow I got to thinking about this in terms of dessert. If you were said imaginary psychologist and prompted me with “dessert,” these would be my words: “baking,” “oven,” “chocolate,” “sugar,” “sweet,” and “timer.” In my own self-psycho-analysis, I’ve concluded that I somehow only associate dessert with baked goods and a time-consuming process. This is, of course, not true at all. The moral of my story is that I need to branch out a little bit. (I played this game with Selim, and when I offered the word “dessert,” he immediately responded with “chocolate.”)

Tonight’s dessert is a perfect example. The prep-work is literally 2 minutes long, and you’re eating your dessert barely after you even thought about it! All you need is a couple peaches in your fruit bowl and a few standard pantry ingredients, and voila! You have a delicious dessert! Also, I think this is the perfect dessert to bridge summer and fall, aka the month of September. You’ve got the last of a your juicy summer peaches, but baked with some of your favorite fall flavors!

Honey Baked Peaches

Ingredients: 

• 2 peaches
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp cardamom
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• Pinch of salt
• Honey

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Slice peaches in half and remove the pit.
3. Place cut side up on a foil-lined pie pan.
4. Drizzle each peach half with some honey.
5. Stir together all dry ingredients and then sprinkle over top each of the peach halves.
6. Bake for 20 minutes.
7. After removing from the oven, drizzle with honey again!
8. Serve as is or top with some vanilla ice cream or whipped cream!

Serves 2-4