Peaches and Blackberries With Mint and Honey
By: Donata Thomas
Published: Monday, January 11, 2010 - 1:05pm

Ingredients




2 cups  Blackberries
2 large peaches
2 generous sprigs of mint
2 tablespoons honey

Preparation

1 Place the blackberries in a bowl 2 Gently fill the bowl with room temperature water 3 Gently stir the blackberries around removing bugs and twigs GENTLY drain the berries; pour them onto a clean towel to dry 4 Dice the peaches into nice bite size chunks. 5 Place these and the blackberries into a nice serving bowl. 6 Julienne the mint, or chop it! 7 Add the mint to the bowl and gently mix the whole lot together. 8 Drizzle the salad with the honey and serve. 9 Don't forget a bottle of bubbly to go with it!!!! 10 But drink plenty of water to avoid the morning afer headache....or as in my case, the evening of! 11 If you get to putting the leftovers away before the fruit flies get to it, use the leftovers for breakfast topped with some plain yogurt acccompanied by a piece of peanut butter toast...yum!

About


I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, the end of August in the the Northwest! I love that the mornings are cool and dewey, I love that the air changes and the green begins to turn to a soft yellow as the trees ready themselves for autumn. I love the smell of warm, plump, ripe blackberries on the vine that grow like weeds here. I love the availability of peaches!!!!!!
Last evening, as the salmon was cooking on the gas grill on a bed of hickory, I trotted off around the block, still in my dress from the workday sans stockings and shoes, with my apron on and my 1/2 full champagne glass tucked in my apron strings and went in search of those blackberries; two young girls in tow.
Blackberries I did find and home I did go to pair them with some just right peaches