Poached Apricots

Summer’s innumerable fresh fruits are all so perfectly delicious it’s almost a shame to cook or further manipulate them. Explosively juicy and packed with flavor, apricots always tempt me away from the oven and back into the fridge, demanding to be eaten immediately as is. Still, a whole flat of these stone fruits can only last so long, and plain apricots are exciting for a week or two at most. The best way to deal with this “problem” is to poach them very simply, infusing the essence of va