Freezing peaches

This summer's local bumper fruit crop has been peaches.  Week after week our CSA fruit share has contained beautiful, fragrant, delicious peaches.  July and much of August were too hot for me to even think about baking so they have been consumed fresh and in smoothies.  And we can't keep up!  (GFCF Kid and Red Sox Daddy are not fans of the fresh peach.)

So, this morning I got to work and washed, peeled, sliced, weighed, and bagged 8 lbs. of peaches (enough for four pies, yum).  More than once I thought about how American pioneer women kept themselves sane by doing what work they could do together, with each other.  I was a bit lonely, just me and the peaches.

Here is my go-to peach pie recipe.  I'm not sure when I will bake my next peach pie, but with the peaches ready to go, I know we'll be enjoying one sometime soon.   (BTW, I have followed the peeling method in this recipe in the past, but peeled by hand this morning because the peaches were so ripe the skins were practically falling off.)

Some truth

Confession: I have been eating G (gluten) and C (casein) occasionally.

I am on a continual, for two-plus years now, journey with Vinny (my TCM healer). Opening channels, unearthing "stuff", working through layers...ultimately, raising awareness and aligning myself with Joy and Now.

Increasing awareness builds and plateaus and then builds and plateaus again. For me, anyway. And during the building phase, things can get uncomfortable.

I'm at a place now where I can pretty easily identify and equate the "uncomfortable" as a message. Which is useful. Because that perspective shift can change the discomfort from a negative to a positive...or a potential positive, anyway :-)

Though I have faltered in my resolve to be GFCF for 365 days, these side trips to consuming gluten and/or dairy have led to new information. My body has sent me some pretty clear messages.

Gluten = headache.

Casein = hives and bloat.

These aren't be all end all messages. Body chemistry, the flow of Qi, there are a lot of factors which come into play at any given moment. But, I know, more than ever before, that the G and the C do not help me. They really aren't my friends.

And so it goes.