The Currabinny cooks: James Kavanagh and William Murray's simple and delicious baked peach recipe

The Currabinny chefs serve baked peaches with thyme and vanilla beans, apricots in a mint syrup with mascarpone, and pickled yellow plums.

James Kavanagh and William Murray show the versatility of peaches. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan

I have a memory of two peach trees being planted somewhere in the garden in Currabinny. 

There was a lot of fuss about choosing the right ones, apparently you needed two trees, one male and one female, to bare fruit. This of course is not true, I either made it up or else the person at the garden centre made it up. In any case, I am fairly certain that growing peaches in Ireland is fairly limited due to our climate but I may also have made that up.