Peach Streusel

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare a grill to medium heat.
• In a bowl, combine the brown sugar, cornmeal, flour, oats, spices, ginger and salt and mix well.
• Using a pastry blender, cut the shortening into the dry ingredients until the mixture loosely holds together.
• Stir in the chopped hazelnuts and refrigerate until needed.
• Slice the peaches in half and remove the pit.
• Grill the peaches cut-side down until they just start to caramelize. Remove them from the grill and place in a bowl with the rosemary. Cover with plastic wrap until cool to the touch.
• Slice the peaches and divide between 6 deep ramekins or soup cups.
• Top each ramekin with the streusel topping and bake for about 20 minutes or until bubbling.
• Serve warm with a scoop of your favorite vanilla ice cream.

* At Eclipse, Robberson serves her peach streusel with a vegan banana-vanilla bean ice cream, pictured here. To make this dessert vegan at home, use a soy-based vanilla ice cream.

This article appears in Sep 1-30, 2010.