These grilled peaches with brown sugar pecan crumble are the perfect simple summer dessert.

We have a serious problem in our house revolving around fruit. Ulysses likes all his stone fruits (and pears) crunchy. As in, not ripe at.all.

This makes my blood boil.

He will happily bite into a peach and it will CRUNCH it’s so under ripe.

Me? I’m a normal person and prefer my fruit sweet, juicy and soft to the touch (aka: ripe).

I go to the store twice a week to restock produce, usually buying 4-5 of whatever stone fruit looks good, put them in the fruit bowl on the countertop and prepare to wait the 1-2 days for them to get to that perfect juicy, ripe state.

Except they hardly ever make it that long because Ulysses comes along, snags the still hard as a rock fruit and devours it.

It’s seriously one of the most trying things in our marriage (right behind the whole toilet seat thing).

I feel like I need a secret hiding spot for my fruit.

But that would probably just result in molding peaches and nectarines shoved behind something in a cabinet somewhere.

So this was an attempt to meet somewhere in the middle.

You don’t want the peaches super ripe because then they’ll fall apart on the grill and the grilling softens them up a bit anyway.

The heat brings out the sweetness though and then the brown sugar pecan (and coconut!) mixture takes it from summer fruit to summer fruit dessert.

It’s the same concept as when air frying peaches.

I’d still like to be able to just bite into a ripe peach in my house but I’d say this is a decent solution for now.

MORE PEACH RECIPES TO TRY:

Paleo Peach Shortcake
Roasted Peach Rosemary Lemonade
Whipped Lemon Burrata Crostini with Grilled Shrimp and Peaches
Peach and Radish Salad with Crispy Prosciutto