Every summer I’m infatuated with one stone fruit or the other: last summer it was plums, encouraged by a killer bargain I explored their use in various ways; this year its peaches. Next year just might be Apricots, who knows!

Surprisingly however I didn’t know the difference between a peach and a nectarine, confusing the two until a few days ago.  I thought the downy skinned fruit were nectarines and the smooth-skinned ones were peaches. Not so I discovered. Peaches have fuzzy,  skin and nectarines don’t. Read more…