Spiced Nectarine Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 ripe nectarines, pitted and cubed
1 inch piece fresh gingerroot, peeled, minced and then pulverized using a mortar and pestle
2 -3 tablespoons butter
1 -2 tablespoon brown sugar, to taste
1 - 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, to taste
5 -10 whole green cardamom pods or 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom

Preparation

If you'd rather, peel the nectarines; I like having the peel in there.
Melt butter in small saucepan over medium high heat.
Dissolve brown sugar in the melted butter, then add the cubed nectarines and the rest of the spices.
When mixture starts to simmer, turn heat down to low.
Simmer in order to achieve desired consistency and allow flavors to blend. You will want this to be chunky, with some textural variation--chunks of fruit in a thick, medium-brown sauce. This may take 5-10 minutes. Remove pods before serving (? I'm actually not sure if you can eat them).
Serve warm with vanilla ice cream, or cool and refrigerate.
My note: this was excellent with hot multigrain cereal! I cooked the cereal first and then added the sauce, about 1:1, stirred it in and warmed it up along with the cereal for a few minutes on low/simmer. Yummy!