Recipes
Nadine Hughes – The Cooks Companion
Balsamic Blueberries and Peaches
Serves 4
Preparation 5 minutes
Cooking 15 minutes + 30 minutes standing time
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp sugar, or to taste
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 3 cups blueberries
- 1 lb peaches or nectaries, sliced
- ½ tsp freshly grated black pepper
- Vanilla yogurt or ice cream to serve
- Boil 3 tbsp sugar with vinegar and 1 cup blueberries in a medium sized heavy saucepan, stirring, 1 minute. Remove from heat.
- Combine remaining 2 cups blueberries with peach slices in a large bowl. Toss with hot blueberry syrup and black pepper, then add sugar to taste. Let stand, tossing occasionally, 30 minutes.
- Serve with vanilla yogurt or ice cream.
Nadine Hughes is a renaissance woman whose forte is making food fun again. Mother of two young boys, wife, serial entrepreneur, world traveler and food expert extraordinaire, Nadine is a woman who literally walks the talk. Nadine frequently appears as a television and radio guest discussing food, entertaining and how family fits into all of it. As the owner and creator of The Cook’s Companion, www.thecookscompanion.ca , Nadine offers kitchen consultations, menu planning services and a cooking and entertaining school offering classes to adults and teens throughout Southern Ontario. A published writer and avid social media user, Nadine recently published her first eCookbook: “The Groove Mamma Goes Gourmet: Easy Ways to Put the Fun Back into Entertaining” www.groovemamma.com which was awarded The Best Canadian Entertaining Cookbook at the 2009 Gourmand Cookbook Awards.
