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I love, love, love scrap quilts, the more fabrics the better, and that's how I justify buying all the fabric I do.

This particular quilt was chosen for today's prompt because tomorrow it will be on its way to Poland along with nine others from my "quilt room" (see day 3 prompt).

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Uncategorized · June 29, 2013

No Global Warming Here

After surviving a long, cold, snowy winter I’ve been looking forward to summer.  That’s right, I’m still waiting for it.  Yesterday when I washed the sheets I took the electric blanket off the bed.  I hadn’t been turning it on for the past month or so but it still added some warmth.  Since it’s almost July I thought we could get by without it, but I was freezing even with a quilt.  This morning the outside thermometer reads 62.4 degrees. 

thermometer

For the past couple of days it has been cloudy, rainy and dreary.  I WANT SUMMER!!

To take the chill out of the house I baked a peach tart.  Last week Aldi had peaches (and plums and nectarines) on sale for 15 cents each.  I bought more than we could eat fresh thinking that I would bake something so this morning I got busy. 

I kind of followed the Peach Tart recipe from A Southern Soul.  I placed the baking sheet in the oven while preheating to 350F.  Then I combined four large peaches peeled and sliced in a mixing bowl.  I added 1/4 cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of flour and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla.  You can add more or less flour depending on how juicy your peaches are.

peach tart-1

I rolled one thawed puffed pastry sheet onto parchment paper then slid the parchment paper onto the warm baking sheet.

peach tart-2

I rolled the edges slightly to give it a little lip so the filling wouldn’t run over so easily then dumped the filling onto the puff pastry and spread it out.

peach tart-3

Then into the oven at 350F for about 30 minutes.  When it came out of the oven I drizzled a little honey over it and brushed it over with a pastry brush to give it a little sheet.

peach tart 4

It looks pretty good for such an easy tart. 

Some of Jen’s friends from Madison came up for the weekend to go to Country USA—wet, wet, Country USA  🙁   and they are still asleep downstairs so I can’t go down to my sewing room.  Yesterday I quilted a couple of small quilts for Quilts Beyond Borders and I’m just itching to get down and sew the bindings on.  Hopefully I’ll have some quilting show and tell this afternoon!

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  1. desertskyquilts says

    June 30, 2013 at 5:22 am

    I can’t believe it is still so cold there while I’m down here sweltering! And drowning – almost 10″ of rain in June. The peach tart looks scrumptious. I had 25 pounds of peaches to start processing this morning, and I made peach/raspberry crisp at the end of the day. Yum!

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