One of my favorite things about summer time is that my favorite fruits are in season and absolutely delicious.  My favorite summer time fruit is the peach.  I love everything peaches: the taste, the smell and the texture.  Both cooked and uncooked there is nothing better than a ripe juicy peach.  The smell of ripe peaches when I wake up in the morning always starts my day off right.  I look forward to the first bite of a peach, the firm outside and the juicy inside, there is absolutely nothing better on a hot summer day.

I had a special request for the 4th of July and that was to make an old fashion peach crisp.  The combination of smells: the cinnamon, the butter, and cooked peaches, make this dessert an oldie but goodie.  There is a reason the recipe has been around for such a long time, it is because it is so easy and so scrumptious.  I am very traditional when I make this dessert, there are only a few ingredients needed but the combination of sweet and salty is second to none.  The final addition to the dessert is French Vanilla ice cream, the  reason I bring this up is because after extensive taste testing I decided that I like French Vanilla ice cream better than regular Vanilla ice cream.  I like being able to see the little bits of the vanilla bean and I like the richer taste of egg within the ice cream, making it taste more like a custard.   The combination of hot peach crisp with cold ice cream makes this recipe one of my top summer desserts.