As soon as peaches start showing up at the grocery store, if I happen to get a whiff of the peach pheromones, it is game over. Marketing geniuses they are. Most don't last long enough to make it into a pie. But there are a few lucky ones...
One of my favorite by-products of making a peach pie is the leftover peach skins (I guess peach pits are the only other by-product, but those are inedible, so the skin is kind of left by default). Apparently, I am the only living human being that enjoys eating the peach skins that are left after skinning the peaches. This is a-ok by me, since I'd rather not share them anyways. I've heard complaints that the peach skins are "too fuzzy" to eat on their own, and that it makes me "weird", but both of those statements are false. I just see them as concentrated peach awesomeness. Plus, instead of snitching the peach slices that are meant for the pie, I can eat the peach skins and get my peach fix without taking away from the pie. It is really problem solving more than anything else.
I had skirted around the idea of an official peach pie for a number of weeks, opting for peach cobblers, raspberry-peach pies, and peaches stabbed on a fork, so it was about time for the real deal.
-Isaac
