After a warm September with lots of hot days, we are in the throes of cool weather. And fall in Minnesota means delicious apples. Last year, our apple tree produced virtually no fruit, but this year we pruned it and thinned out the blossoms, all to great results. The tree was overladen with apples, so much that one branch broke. We also have visited a nearby orchard and bought some Minnesota apples from the grocer.
Here is what we've eaten with apples this season:
apple cream pie, for book group in early September
apple crisp, one of our favorites, we've made it three times
apple cake
apple pancakes
curried apple soup
apples with greens, chives, and goat cheese
caramel apples
applesauce
Yum!
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Minnesota Fall
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yummy...one of my favorite things is homemade applesauce on fall mornings for breakfast. We haven't been to an orchard for a couple of years, but I am determined to get there this year!
p.s. the apple cream pie looks very intriguing.
Do you have many problems with worms? About 3/4 of our apples seem to be wormy (mainly because we don't spray pesticides). But they good apple bits still make for darn good applesauce and apple fritters (mmmm!).
Hey Brooke, Yes, we do have problems with worms since we don't spray either, but just cut them up and use them for applesauce or apple crisp.
And in my original post, I forgot one of my favorites: oatmeal with sliced apples, walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon for breakfast almost every day for the past while.
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