Summer dessert OMG.

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Tonight, I marinated some pork chops in beer, dijon mustard, vegetable oil, garlic, and paprika, and then grilled them on my charcoal grill. When I took them off the grill, I noticed that we still had plenty of life in the coals. Suddenly, I had a flashback to Girl Scout Camp, and a dessert we'd cooked in the campfires.

I asked Michael to cut three peaches in half and scoop out the pits. (I'm so allergic to them when they're raw that I don't even like to touch them.) Each peach went in the center of a square of aluminum foil. I put a pat of butter in the hollows left by the pits, topped the butter with a generous spoonful of cinnamon sugar (left over from the cinnamon toast I made yesterday), put the two halves of each peach back together, and wrapped them individually in foil. I dropped the foil-wrapped balls onto the grill, closed the top, and left them there while we ate supper - about half an hour.

They were perfect. Hot. Soft and juicy, but not mushy or unformed. Cinnamon-scented peach syrup had collected in the foil. With a scoop of vanilla ice cream? Simply heaven.

I tell you, those Girl Scouts knew a thing or two.

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[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

I love bananas and plums on skewers as dessert. Mmm.

When I was a scout, we used to do baked apples. Core an apple. Stick a pat of butter on one end, and set it on some heavy duty tin foil. Put in a spoon of cinnamon sugar, a bunch of candy red hots, another spoonful of cinnamon sugar, and another pat of butter to seal the hole. Wrap in tinfoil, leaving room for expansion of air (they usually get puffy) and throw them onto the coals for a while. We usually did them right in the campfire. Mmmm.

The peaches sound divine.