Yellow Nectarine Pie

This first summer pie was long overdue.

Yellow nectarines are one of my favorite pie fruits. The peels bake up all soft and tasty and turn the filling the loveliest shade of pink.

I add just a touch of almond extract to go with the almond crumb top. Then wait for those juices to bubble thickly.

first nectarine pie of the season

I nearly jumped out of my socks when I saw all the stone fruit at the farmer's market last week. I bought enough nectarines to make this pie for my visiting Bostonian friends. It was delicious. I barely had time to snap this rough photo with my camera phone before the pie was all eaten up.

{see more photos of nectarine goodness here}

plums and other stone fruit

As long as I am waving goodbye to summer and all that it brings to market, I guess it's about time I say farewell to the stone fruits.

I made this fabulous plum galette from a recipe I found in Sunset. I go mad for plums and nectarines especially, and I love to bake with both.

It was beautiful and delicious, with it almond paste filling and tender cream cheese crust.

Fashionably Late Summer Pie

Oh dear blog readers, it feels like a million years since my last post. The changing weather and the dwindling days have got me pretty busy. My pie baking is mostly restricted to the weekends now.

Nectarines are some of the last summer fruits at our farmer's market.




Before a few days ago, I'd never had nectarines in a pie. It turns out they make a deliciously lovely desert. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Besides the mid September fruit filling, this pie gets it name from the fashionable activities of our Sunday. We found fantastic flea market treasure, were serenaded by a Spanish guitarist while we ate fresh tortillas AND saw The September Issue at Santa Barbara's beautiful Riviera Theater.