{"id":4429,"date":"2012-08-10T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2012-08-10T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:50:22","slug":"peaches-and-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Peaches and cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/peaches-and-cream-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/peaches-and-cream-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"peaches-and-cream-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years, fats have been so demonized that I avoided cream. Now I confess that I keep cream in the refrigerator all the time. Cream makes a great base for a quick sauce for fish or vegetables. And of course there&#8217;s peaches and cream.<\/p>\n<p>I buy organic cream from Whole Foods. Most of what is sold as cream these days is full of adulterants.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t grow those peaches. I had a great peach crop coming along, but a raccoon got into the trees and stole every last one of them. No doubt it was the same raccoon that also stole all the corn and made a wreck of the garden in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t bring myself to shoot a raccoon &#8212; at least not yet. I need to make a winter project of making the garden and orchard fence raccoon-proof. There are spots where they can get under the fence. With those spots fixed, and some work around the gates, a raccoon-proof fence should be possible. I might even throw in a low run of electrical wire to discourage meddling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, fats have been so demonized that I avoided cream. Now I confess that I keep cream in the refrigerator all the time. Cream makes a great base for a quick sauce for fish or vegetables. And of course there&#8217;s peaches and cream. I buy organic cream from Whole Foods. Most of what is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peaches and cream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}