Greenmarket Grub: Donut Peaches
When you are at your local farmers’ market, and you see regular peaches are two dollars a pound, and donut peaches are twice that, you may think (as I did), eh, whatever, peaches are peaches and one peach is as good as another.
I am here to tell you: that thinking is wrong.
WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Donut peaches (also called saturn peaches, saucer peaches, or pan tao peaches) are, quite simply, the best peaches I have ever eaten. They’re almost as juicy as a bigger yellow peach — which is sometimes a good thing, unless you don’t mind sticky hands/arms/face at work — but being smaller, it’s easier to handle. What they lack in size, they make up for by being incredibly sweet; not gross, cloying sweet, but omg-this-is-the-peachiest-mothereffing-peach-I-have-ever-eaten sweet.
Now, I usually end a Greenmarket Grub entry with a recipe of some kind that uses the fruit or vegetable in question, but in this case, I just can’t. I can’t imagine wanting to do anything with these peaches besides set them in a pretty bowl on the counter and eat them out of hand, one after the other.
4 Comments
Valerie Loveland
I love peaches, but I am so snobby about them, I almost never buy them. I am definitely trying these.
gezellig*girl
Me too — I’ve come to expect that any peach I buy is probably not going to be as good as I think it’s going to be, but these are amazing.
Amy
I’m glad that you got some of these that tasted well worth the price.
I got these at the market and suspect the price had caused them to be there a little too long, thus the flavorless granular peaches that we did NOT enjoy. But they were so cute…
Cut to shot of moldy expensive peaches in the trash
(sigh)
gezellig*girl
Oh, that is a truly a shame when that happens. I had the same happen to a container of little yellow plums this week. :P