Apples and Figs

Searching through the old posts here please note that when the journal entries where imported into this new version of Movable Type the formatting was lost. Therefore all of the old posts look like I don't know a thing about sentence structure and paragraphs. I am not totally complainly. I am happy to have the entries available. O'kay I am complaining a little bit.

(Another) One of the things I love about the approach of fall is the anticipation of the apples. We have apple trees. We have very few apples this year due to the snow storm that came just before Easter this year and killed most of the blossoms on the trees.

We will harvest our apples this week. First on the menu is apple pie!

Back in March (I did so much in March!) we planted three fig trees. The summer drought did nothing to help them. They have struggled and made it through to fall. How very surprised I was to see one of the tiny trees baring fruit. Figs! My mouth waters at the thought of the deliciousness we will hopefully harvest next summer.

I probably shoudl knock these off and wait until next year but I can't. I want to taste just one, just one this fall. Hopefully the birds won't get them.

As soon as October shows its face around here I am headed off to the mountains. This year I plan to acquire more than a few Stayman apples. If you have never had an old Virginia stayman apple you have missed out one of the best apples to be eaten. I discovered these apples last fall at an open market and fell in love with them.

Our diet is filled with apple and pumpkin dishes during this time of year. I look forward to cool nights where I serve pork roasts marinated with rosemary and roasted with apples, prunes, squash, pumpkins, onions and potatoes followed by apple desserts - baked apples, fried apples, apple pie, apple tarts, warm apple sauce with cream - mmmmm or pumpkin desserts. After that comes sweet potato and collard season - a different kind of ymuuy.

Does your diet change seasonally? What's on your supper table these days?