It comes for you at twilight and evaporates at dawn
Rabbit belated rabbit! We are now three days into my birthday month and I am putting my head up from the run of appointments, relatives, and holiday, which was celebrated last night with my parents and husbands and briefly my brother. Tonight for dinner ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch and I made deli sandwiches at home, a delicious change from the recent stint of peanut butter. I will have to get some coleslaw before the corned beef runs out.
Our apples this year were provided bynineweaving, all heirloom varieties. So far the clear favorite has been the the Ashmead's Kernel, which tastes like ground-fall russeted cider, with a strong secondary showing from the Hudson's Golden Gem, crisp and creamy at once. The Wickson Crab has a bright ornamental look, as though bunches of it should be garnishing a hat, and the danger lies in not popping them like cherries. The Chestnut Crab was shockingly sweet for anything of its name, but could have been crunchier. We are already looking at the schedule for Cider Days.
Over dinner withspatch: "It's a good thing Halloween was invented. I don't know what Ray Bradbury would have done with himself."
spatch and I made deli sandwiches at home, a delicious change from the recent stint of peanut butter. I will have to get some coleslaw before the corned beef runs out.Our apples this year were provided by
nineweaving, all heirloom varieties. So far the clear favorite has been the the Ashmead's Kernel, which tastes like ground-fall russeted cider, with a strong secondary showing from the Hudson's Golden Gem, crisp and creamy at once. The Wickson Crab has a bright ornamental look, as though bunches of it should be garnishing a hat, and the danger lies in not popping them like cherries. The Chestnut Crab was shockingly sweet for anything of its name, but could have been crunchier. We are already looking at the schedule for Cider Days.Over dinner with
spatch: "It's a good thing Halloween was invented. I don't know what Ray Bradbury would have done with himself."
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I wish I could try those apples. My current favorite apple is the Envy.
That line about Ray Bradbury made me laugh. (It is certainly true.)
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Thank you!
I wish I could try those apples. My current favorite apple is the Envy.
I don't think I know that one! What is it like?
The heirloom apples have come from a local farmers' market, so maybe would show up similarly for you, depending on what your apple-growing scene is like.
That line about Ray Bradbury made me laugh. (It is certainly true.)
Thanks! (I'm not even sure what we had been discussing beyond possibly the flavors of the different apples we were having with honey for dessert, but.)
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That's really neat. I've never had an apple with almond butter. I usually just eat them except for Rosh Hashanah.
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Ohhhh, very nice! ^_^
I'm not really an apple person (which is kinda brutal, living in Nova Scotia, because apples are the one fruit that we have an approximately infinite amount of), but I deeply love how many varieties there are and how wide the spectrum is. (I think mainly I wish they were generally smaller, and then I could try so many kinds without having to eat quite so much apple at once. Or maybe other places trend toward smaller varieties?)
All of which is to say that I enjoy reading about other varieties!
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Thank you!
(which is kinda brutal, living in Nova Scotia, because apples are the one fruit that we have an approximately infinite amount of)
That's neat. Do you have specifically regional apples I should know about?
(I think mainly I wish they were generally smaller, and then I could try so many kinds without having to eat quite so much apple at once. Or maybe other places trend toward smaller varieties?)
It's possible that heirloom apples tend smaller than modern varieties, but mostly I think it helps that we had six people to share slices among. (Since then, I have been snacking on the Ashmead's and the Wickson Crabs on my own.)
All of which is to say that I enjoy reading about other varieties!
I'm glad!
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I started to fall down a bit of a rabbit hole, and have mostly managed to dodge it, but here are links I found from two provincial growers, plus one about our older varieties.
I think you're right about heirloom varieties maybe being smaller! (Now I'm wishing that it were easier for me to go to a farmers' market, but...not at this time, I think.)
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I recommend any you can get hold of, but especially the Ashmead's Kernel!