Title: Vanilla ice cream & california fruit trio
 Categories: Desserts, Fruits
      Yield: 2 Servings
 
      2    Peaches, peeled, then
           -vacuum-packed with sugar
           -syrup and vanilla beans,
           -cook in boiling water for
           -ten minutes
      6 oz Vanilla ice cream
     16    Pieces orange wedges in own
           -juice, cooked w/grenadine
           -syrup
      4 tb Orange zest
      2 ts Chopped pistachio
      4    Mint leaves
      6    Pieces cherries, cut into
           -half and remove stems
      6 tb Orange juice
 
  Remove stones from the poached peaches.  Arrange the orange wedges and
  cherries on a plate in a circle following the edge of the plate.
  Place a peach in the middle of the orange wedges and put the ice
  cream on top of each peach.
  
  Sprinkle with orange zest over the oranges.
  
  Pour orange juice over oranges.
  
  Decorate with mint leaves.
  
  Sprinkle chopped pistachio nuts on top of the ice cream. Serves: 2
  Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@msn.com Source: Food & Wine the Westin
  Way Chef Tadashi Katoh, Chef de Cuisine, Century Plaza Hotel, Los
  Angeles.