Grilled Peaches

Delicious!  Andrew made these beauties last night.  Here's the recipe in his words:

Agrodolce Grilled Peaches

Glaze: 1 cup Red Wine Vinegar, 1/4 cup honey, 1/4 cup peach nectar, salt/pepper. Reduce until a syrup for glazing. Cut in half. Grill about 3-4 minutes face down (brush with Canola oil). Turn and repeat. drizzle with sauce. (Via Bobby Flay). I reduced the glaze while grilling the Tri-Tip, but you could do it ahead of time. Soo freaking good! Enjoy ;-)

Lemonade

Angelica brought 6 lemons over today with a request - "to make lemonade".

Ingredients:
6 lemons from the tree in Angelica's backyard (or about 1 3/4 cups lemon juice)
8 cups water
1 cup sugar

I washed the lemons and then each kid rolled 2 lemons on the countertop to loosen up the juice.  We took turns juicing them while 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar boiled on the stove to make simple syrup. Instead of letting the simple syrup cool we added cold water and ice, stirred it all up and enjoyed a delicious cup of semi-tart lemonade.

Better than McDonald's

All summer we've been hearing the radio commercials for McDonald's Mango Pineapple smoothies.  I promised the kids we could make a better one...

Chicken Yakitori

Andrew did his version of Bobby Flay's Yakitori Chicken tonight - AMAZING!