My weekend wishes were fulfilled: apple picking and a festival (more on that tomorrow).
This year the crop was so good that the farm was practically giving them away. We filled up two half bushel bags in no time. Rowan made me laugh as he just had to use the stool and the grabber pole to aid with his picking. There was plenty of fruit hanging low and heavy on the branches, but he just needed the added challenge of reaching up to the tippy top of the tree.
Some of the apples have been put to immediate good use. While I was at work the other night Ava whipped up an apple crisp for the rest of the family. She's quite the baker these days and is especially motivated when sweets are involved. I returned home to find just a bit left- and stole a few delicious bites.
Today Rowan put his chopping skills to work helping prep fruit for applesauce. After simmering and letting the apple-y fragrance fill the kitchen, we sat down to share our snack with a favorite friend.
And the dishes were scraped clean.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Apple goodness
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I have to chuckle, because your apple-picking post and my across-the-street neighbor's apple-picking post just hit my mailbox at the same time! Apple crisp and applesauce at your house; apple pies (plural!) and applesauce at hers. Apples everywhere!
Your photos are gorgeous -- can those apples be real?
Attempting to get to bed a TINY bit earlier tonight...
Look at all those APPLES!!
Hi - Please ask Ava to give us her recipe!
Don't you just love this time of year? We went a few weeks ago and are still eating the apples. Do need to make a good apple crisp though... maybe Ava can send us her recipe too?
Mmmm..look at all that crunchy goodness on the ground there...how bountiful! I adore the smell of apples cooking....I wonder is apple crisp the same as our apple crumble (a favourite cooler weather dish in our house). Well done to your budding cook.
Hi again....we call those fantastic trees "strangler" figs but I think they are also called "banyan" figs....one of our commmon rainforest trees...very very old, and amazing how those roots grow down ever so slowly from the branches! Beautiful aren't they.
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