Good morning and welcome to Food Food with Pixie Burmister. And now here's Pixie. And we are back and we have two, well we have the other two ambassadors and that might be... Bella Wurunde-Bissen.
You got to get close to the mic. Bella Wurunde-Bissen. And I come from Central. And Lauren, you, I know you.
And I'm Lauren Spriggs. I go to Pal State High School and I'm going to be a senior this year. Okay, you're a senior and you, Bella, are a sophomore, right? Correct.
Right, right. We need to give a shout out. I mentioned to Phil at Quality Meats at 340 North Avenue, one of our sponsors that our ambassadors were going to be here. And so we have talked about some peachy ideas because they have, of course, known for their excellent meat at Quality Meats for over 80 some years.
Yeah. You know of Quality Meats. Yes, absolutely. They've been a sponsor for quite a while.
They've been very supportive of so many things in this valley. Are either one of you 4-H related or not? I mean... Unfortunately not.
You have enough to do, right? Yeah. Right. You're going to be a senior on what you're planning for when you graduate.
So I want to go to CU Boulder or some school in Oregon or Washington. That's what I'm thinking and I'm going to try and be a pre-med major. Very good. And I want to end up being a psychiatrist.
Aha, real. Perfect. Maybe she'll give you a free console some day. Takes a lot of training to get there.
And then how about you, Bella? I know you're a sophomore, so you've got a couple of years to think about it. But do you have a direction that you think you want to go in? I personally kind of want to be either an artist or a singer, but currently I'm going to be a pharmacologist.
A pharmacologist? Okay. Okay. Good ideas, good goals.
I'm really feeling that you'd be dedicated enough to really hit those hard. Now why did you, Bella, want to become an ambassador? Well, I just absolutely loved the Peach Festival. I've been going every year, single year since I was probably like six.
Okay. And now you're an old woman, about 16. I'm actually 15. Okay.
But that's good to know. What do you love about the Peach Festival? I love the Peach in Contacts and then the cooking class. That just seems so interesting with me.
Very good. And how about you, Lauren? I wanted to become a student ambassador because I was one last year and really loved the connection with the community. And I think my favorite part of the entire festival is the little kids Peach eating contest.
Oh, fun. Because the adults, they know how to get it down. But the kids are so cute. They get serious.
Yeah. Peach eating contest. That has grown in popularity. Everybody loves that.
And you'll hear a lot of yelling and cheering. And you know, come on, you can do it. Yeah. And I, I'm not sure about the record.
The person, the adults who ate the most peaches. I thought I heard the eight, nine peaches in, what is it? 60 seconds. It was something crazy like that.
I remember moderating that day. That's right. Yeah. And like he had like, I think it was maybe 11 or something.
Wow. Like taking them back and it was, it was a crazy watch. I would say there were a few sticky faces and hands and clothes. Absolutely.
I've always said we need an adult bib for Peach. Well, for, just playing eating peaches because they're the juiciest, sweetest and they are so good this year. Some are smaller in size because of crazy weather. And you have almost 90 in March and then you have, I think March and April flipped.
You know, but they are so good. Describe your experience in eating a peach. So specifically the peaches we received as ambassadors were probably the best peaches I've ever ate. I believe they were from the Talbot farm.
Okay. And they were just so juicy. They were huge peaches. It was like, it was breakfast, lunch and dinner.
We were out at the festival. No other food needed to be had. And you know what? Right.
To now, we can push the apples aside and say two or three peaches a day. And then we can go to the doctor. Oh, wait. I think if you can hold it at two or three peaches, how about you, Bill?
I think once I try to eat four peaches, but I never made a past. Oh, at a time. Yeah. My husband says I don't know if anybody who has many peaches in popcorn is I can't.
And by the way, peaches and popcorn go really well. They kind of compliment a little salt, savory. You know, at least you take a bite or two a peach and then you have a little popcorn. There's my recipe.
And Phil, all he means, at 340 North Avenue, we were talking about, he has great thick pork chops here, you know, and pop even in a little toaster oven if you wanted, but make a peach glaze. Peaches and pork go really well together. You want to try that. Or you grill the peaches and serve them alongside of pork chops or beef or you name it.
Peaches go well, it seems to me like any seafood, any meat, you know, be a pork beef chicken, whatever. And you can make a peach sauce so quick. And of course, I think when we were talking, I heard peaches and ice cream from somebody. What say you?
That was me. Personally, I like ice cream with like peaches on top, like fresh peach slices. That's personally like my favorite. I'm not either a pie or cobbler.
You don't. Oh, you got. Okay, peach ice cream is perfectly fine. And we talked about the places in the Valley McLean's and I know Enstrom's just announced there.
Now that the peaches are here, the peach ice cream is, and these places, they wait for the pal say peaches and that's why it makes the ice cream so super good. And a lot of times it doesn't last in forever. I know they try to freeze as much as they can, but so now's the time to really enjoy that delicious ice cream as well. There when you looked at now, you know, of course, the peach days are any of those activities.
There's the parade. There's the Lions Club pancake breakfast and the run. Now, do you participate in any of those? So we'll be there for every single one.
And I believe Maddie was saying she wanted to participate in the five case. So it's really just depending on, I guess what we want to do, but I would love to be there for the breakfast because I do love some beach pancakes. And you know the Lions, they've been doing that. Oh, I wonder if they've been doing it since this this Peach Festival got going about 50 years ago, 50 some year, 57 I think it is.
That would be the Lions Club. And then early on Saturday morning, flipping those pancakes and serving the peach topping or peaches with them is people have grown up with that tradition. And I have some friends that live over in Fruida. And I think they're the first ones there waiting for those peaches with the Lions Club.
Gosh, there's a thank you going out to them because they have been really instrumental in the Peach Festival and the growth. So I agree with you. I have a pancake with some peaches on top. You can't go wrong.
And then of course by time dinner comes, it's time for a peach and ice cream. What's an activity Bella at the Peach Festival because you said you've gone so essentially we're six, what's a couple of the activities that you really, really like? I just like shopping around, just going around looking at the local vendors and all their stuff. Personally, I wish I could buy everything.
So I think I should take part in any of the kids activities when you were younger. I actually don't think so. I think I just hit in the back. Okay.
How about you Lauren? What are some of your favorite activities? I would say my absolute favorite thing to do at the festival was last year we had a competition between the student ambassadors of how many people we could get to sign up or do surveys of how they felt about the festival. And we got peaches and obviously I won.
Very good. But I also really like the live music because people are so calm, so we get back. And it's just a really good vibe. Right.
And in fact, working on getting Sean Moon, because he has his band and everybody loved them, they're going to highlight the nights there, but he's very popular, but very busy. These musicians are really busy, but they're so much fun too. When you get to know them and we've talked to some on the phone before, you know, and some in the studio, but they have a really good lineup. I think the goal is to have music that no matter what your favorite type of music is, they try to blend a little of all of them in there.
And a lot of people love to go there and take lawn chairs, don't they? And sit out and enjoy the music. Absolutely. And understandably so, it is probably the best event of the night.
That's lots of fun. Oh, now we do have the Peach Grill and Throwdown by Two Shifts. We have Peach Cuisine with Colorado Shifts and great lineup of chefs all day on Saturday, starting at 10.30. And I've been talking to a lot of them.
They're so interesting and so much fun. And one couple actually worked in the post office and they met each other. And I asked if there's any love letters being delivered. And then suddenly it was interesting being a chef.
I mean, see, there's just great stories and great fun. And Friday night, last year was our first Peach Throwdown between a couple chefs. And this year will be Lindsey, Marsh, and Matt Teasek. And they are going to be a hoot.
And we've now cut it down. It has to be 30 minutes. So just like some of those shows on the Food Network, we'll say, you know, chefs begin. And then at the end, chefs, you have five seconds, four, three, two, step back from the table.
Their time is up and we're going to see what they create in a half an hour. We think that would be really fun and a lot of that excitement. But all of these chefs that we have, of course, will be the first to say that one of the reasons that their dishes are so good is because the quality, the taste, and the juiciness of the palisé peach is what they say. So what we're going to do, we have one segment left.
We're going to get the other girls in here too, but we'll be asking you a few more questions. And I want to say thanks to Phil at 340 North Avenue. And he's got all those different kinds of needs. And he has, I think, some peach jams and he's so many local products.
So he's a peach guy. And he puts the cue in quality when we say quality means. So stick with this. We'll be back and get some last minute ideas from our fruit festival.
No, we should peach festival during this peach month and peach festival moment. I think they all might have one more tip or idea.