Recipe: Poached Peaches

A yummy dish, an old work from 2010 that I can see now was a sampler for cooking experience I'll be doing this year!

Ingredients -

Meal:
. 4 Peaches
. 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
. 1/4 cinnamon stick
. cinnamon powder
. 1/4 cup sugar
. 3 cups Cranberry juice
. Vanilla Ice Cream
. 1 cup water

Syrup:

. 2 cups Cranberry juice
. 4 cups sugar
. 1/4 cup water

Instructions -

1) Make the syrup first, it takes longer. Bring water and cranberry juice to boil in syrup recipe.
2) Dissolve the sugar into the boiling juice, stirring constantly.
3) Once the sugar is dissolved completely, remove the pan from the heat immediately!
4) Allow to cool completely and thicken.
5) Now, onto the peaches! Wash then peel the skin off the peaches, cutting them in half and removing the pit.
6) Combine the cranberry sauce, water, vanilla extract and cinnamon stick in a medium sauce pan, bring to a gentle boil.
7) stir in sugar into the sauce, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved.
8) Lightly cover the peaches in cinnamon, making sure an even spread is across the peach.
9) Submerge the peaches in the medium sauce, bring to a simmer and cover.
10) Poach peaches until tender, 20-30 minutes.

Plating -

1) Place two peach halfs on a small plate
2). In the left pit, fill with the sauce used to poach the peaches.
3) in the right pit, one scoop of vanilla ice cream.
4) Drizzle with the cranberry syrup

Enjoy!