Fresh Peach Tart

Peach Tart served on a Wild Bower Studio Handmade Speckled Ceramic Oval Serving Platter

What an insane summer! Typically our April is super rainy but the summer has really soaked us. So our normal exploration on the weekends have been washed out quite regularly, which means that we haven’t been “picking our own" in quite a while! Well, ask/wish and you shall receive. We happened to be at the right place at the right time to receive a beautiful bag full of freshly picked peaches just waiting to be transformed into something sweet and delicious though I could have probably eaten each peach on their own.

We did a poll on our Instagram page to see what folks thought we should make. One of the big winners was the peach tart. Simple and sunny we found our Peach Tart recipe from Food52. I didn’t follow their crust recipe because I had plans to make pies and quiches so I just made extra pie crust but I did follow the rest.

Peach Tart served on a Wild Bower Studio Handmade Speckled Ceramic Oval Serving Platter

Peach Tart served on a Wild Bower Studio Handmade Speckled Ceramic Oval Serving Platter surrounded by Sun Ray appetizer plates and textured side bowls

The Best Zucchini Bread

Zucchini Bread served on Wild Bower Studio Sun Ray Serving Platter

When you start a garden there are so many moments where you wonder what will happen and if the garden will be a success. Will we get even one tomato or one squash? Well, we’ve officially surpassed our expectations. Every few weeks a new veggie starts to ripen and thus a new question starts to unfurl…

Recently, as I start the pile of veggies, I’ve found myself getting to a point where I say “What am I going to do with all this?” Today that question was focused on our Zucchini haul. The green gourds sometimes get lost behind the big leaves so we’ve had a few unexpected “monsters”. Some have grown larger than my forearm!

I tried to go through all of the recipes that I’ve made in the past to figure out my plan of attack. So today we made Zucchini bread, which should honestly be outlawed - it’s so dang good and more like cake than bread.

Zucchini Bread served on Wild Bower Studio textured ceramic dinnerware & Sun Ray platter.

I’m a simple potter and while with cooking I can confidently ad lib, baking on the other hand I tend to find sticking to the recipes (to start) helpful for success. After a quick search I discovered Mom’s Zucchini Bread recipe. Best part it has over 9K 5 stars reviews so you know it’ll be good.

We made this recipe twice, the first following exactly and the second adding some nutmeg, ginger and allspice to the mix. Both were delicious and for sure a treat you’ll want to share with your friends and family.

Snow Covered

It’s quite amazing what snow can do to the world. When we were living in Brooklyn snow seemed like such a waste - beautiful for moments and then terrifying. Imagine standing on an above ground subway station being pelted by sideway snow waiting to get on a train for work… or walking across an intersection of a corner you are very used to only to find a hole that seems to never end filled with grey slush. Brooklyn snow was not grand or magical but Catskill snow, that’s another story.

We were waiting for 15” of snow and we were for sure given that snow. What seemed incredibly scary became something incredibly beautiful and show stopping. Trees were covered in soft flakes, ground topped with more, and the birds didn’t even seem to care.

Our snowblower broke as we began to dig our 50’ driveway out so we took up snow shovels. It was hard but it was also Britney Spears’ birthday and the tunes were blasting. Each foot felt like a victory as we cleared our path.

The next day we were out again but instead of grey skies we had crystal clear bright blue ones. I know that I keep saying how incredible these visuals were but that is the only word I can seem to muster about this experience. Snow blower be damned, we cleared our driveway, took our first snow photos and simply enjoyed the view.