Damn! Grilled Peaches

Damn! Grilled Peaches

I was going to write this post about eating healthy on a budget, etc. etc. 

And then this happened. Yep. 

Grilled peaches with a butter rum sauce and vanilla frozen yogurt for dessert. 

My daughter's response was, "Damn!" The fact that she responded at all was pretty amazing. Most days the best response I get from her is a grunt.

To tie this into the whole budget-friendly theme on this blog, I will say that the peaches were overripe and needed to be used up. That's a theme in my grocery shopping lately. I'm trying to focus on fresh foods that I can buy cheaply and dress up somehow. 

I grilled the peaches in coconut oil in the grill pan. I put nothing else on them when they grilled. I kept it simple. If I were going to do this on a grill, I would brush the peaches with the coconut oil.

Then I did a version of the butter rum sauce from this recipe here. I made about half a batch, but I didn't measure anything. I had just a bit of rum left in a bottle so I used it up. The sauce was slurp-worthy.

I had one peach half left that I poured the rest of the sauce over. I had to resist the urge to whip out a straw and slurp it from the pan. 

This morning I made some French toast. I cut up the peach that was leftover and reheated it in the sauce to make syrup.  Mmm... I like using up leftovers like this.

Overripe fruit can often be used to make desserts by making them into a cobbler, fruit crisp, or using them in a syrup that can be used over ice cream or to top pancakes or French toast.