The season for local, right-off-the-tree peaches is waning. Seriously, you have two weeks left. Perhaps, three. All fruit is better fresh, but words can little describe the difference between a fresh peach and frozen peach chucks. This weekend, patronize a local farmer's market, bring home a bushel of peaches and end summer with a juicy exclamation point. We add peaches to our morning Greek yogurt and granola. We use them as a compliment to vanilla ice cream. Like champagne? Last week, we were treated to pureed peach mimosas.

We love banana peppers. They grow plentifully. Keep them watered, and you’ll have sweet peppers from late June to mid-October, and they are amazing when pickled.

As lovers of fresh bread, we believe that a bread machine is a handy appliance for the modern bachelor. We have a new recipe: G@H’s Fresh Basil Pesto Bread.

Pesto is simple and beautiful. Its primary ingredient, basil, grows like a weed in the summer heat. With one lively plant, you can dine weekly on fresh pesto.

Congratulations on your ascension to gentlemanhood! You’ve come a long way from the pimpled adolescent with a penchant for crude innuendo. Your teachers doubted you. Your parents fretted and prayed. Against all odds, though, you made it. How will you celebrate? You could down a 32-ounce bone-in rib eye, but that joy is fleeting. Why not celebrate everyday with Light Champagne Vinaigrette from Trader Joe’s.  At only 50 calories per serving, it will enliven your salads without busting your belt.

You need an herb garden. They inspire creativity in the kitchen. They are easy to cultivate, even in an apartment window. And, having fresh basil, cilantro and parsley impresses houseguests and establishes you as gentleman of remarkable responsibility and foresight. Here are the five essential herbs for your garden. 5. Oregano We at G@H swear by fresh oregano as a hamburger seasoning. Knead a little chopped oregano and garlic into your ground beef, and you will concur. 4. Thyme Thyme is often paired with rosemary as in G@H’s Pecorino Romano Herb Beer Bread. We also use thyme with roasted chicken, lamb and beef. 3.Rosemary Speaking of rosemary, few plants prove harder to kill, making this an excellent herb for the negligent gentleman. It also flowers with handsome purple blossoms. 2. Mint Mint is the Chipper Jones of herbs: the ultimate...

For this bread machine recipe, beer keeps the bread moist, and more flavorful varieties add taste. Cheese, well, you know, cheese is good.

Growing up comes with inherent drawbacks. That gladiator metabolism slows. Summer no longer means extended vacation. Responsibility. Nevertheless, age can bring enlightenment. In college, I remember seeing a salad spinner and concluding, “I’ll have nothing to do with such an asinine contraption.” How adolescent I was. Handsome, yes, but naïve. When washing lettuce, water reaches every crack and crevasse, leading to a soggy salad. The salad spinner magically extracts excess water. It is an essential tool for those who grow their own greens or get them from a farmer’s market. Even if you buy prewashed bagged lettuce, consider a rewash: . Gentlemen who spin daily should consider splurging on the high end model, the OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner. For more recreational spinners, at least more budget-conscious ones, we recommend the TOKIG Salad Spinner from IKEA. Its costs only $3.99...

American farmers, people more rugged than us, built this nation and continue cultivating its greatness. They milk cows, bale hay, harvest crops, and care for livestock. Nine hours of chair sitting exhausts us. They brave drought, blizzards, tornadoes and swarms of locusts. We reluctantly drive in snow. They feed the world. We consume their bounty. When we were children, we pretended to be fire fighters and professional athletes. As adult gentlemen, we impersonate farmers. We toil away in our backyard gardens. Sure, we could buy produce from the neighborhood grocer, but we swear by the superiority of our tomatoes. If you tilled, sowed and fertilized in March, like us at G@H, you are tasting the fruits of your labor. Peas are popping. Lettuce is leafing. Strawberries, man. Strawberries are the best. Pofta buna!

We love fresh bread. A Sunday evening loaf provides a week of lunches, and this variation – Greek yogurt bread – makes great sandwiches.

A gentleman should indulge, occasionally.  Notwithstanding our  sophisticated tastes, we love Oreos.  We especially love the Double Stuf Oreo cookie.  And before today, we subscribed the unqualified premise that more crème is better. Meet the new Mega Stuf Oreo.  Wow.  Each cookie contains a quarter-inch of crème -- beautiful but also lethal (or, at least, dreadfully sweet).  Sometimes, too much of a good thing is a bad thing.  And sometimes, too much crème gives you a wicked sugar high. Have the snack innovators at Nabisco gone mad?  Perhaps.  Are they conspiring the nation’s dentists?  Could be.  Or maybe, someone remembered this commercial and insisted on making it a reality.

Fred Armisen says “yes.”  We at G@H concur.