Apple Time!

We’ll soon be heading into my absolute favorite time of year, fall. The air is just a little crisp in the mornings; the afternoons however are still nice and warm. Fall also brings to mind fond recollections of going with my Grandparents to pick apples. We drove nearly an hour from our small Kansas town in order to find just the right apples for Grandma, but it was definitely worth it. My favorite apple growing up was always the Jonathon, a crunchy, sour sweet apple that’s rather hard to find here in the Northwest, but there are plenty of other wonderful varieties here to choose from. Apple growers are gearing up now to harvest their bounty and will bring in a glorious smorgasbord of apples for consumers to choose from over the next several weeks. And just like the Honeycrisp that wowed apple buyers when it was first introduced, a couple of new successors this year are sure to take the apple industry by storm.  As for me I’m more than ready to break out my tried and true apple recipes, or just sit and munch an apple on the front porch glider. I do love fall a bushel and a peck!