As soon as peaches are finally cheap in the markets, no one can stop me eating as many of them as humanly possible. I will eat them for breakfast, post-cycle snack, dessert … and also just any time I see a peach. When I visited a market in Paris last year the people at the stalls were offering slices of peach just for looking at the fruit. I left the market having eaten a lot of free peach slices, and with a paper bag full of them. Most of the time you don’t get to ‘try before you buy’ and can end up with unripe or just utterly flavourless fruit. This can be helped by grilling the peaches, which makes them tender and juicy. The dark brown sugar, vanilla and cinnamon in this recipe caramelise on the fruit and their flavours mingle together in the baking tray. Top with some tangy crème fraîche or vanilla ice cream and you’ll have the epitome of summer in a dessert.