Bushel And A Peck

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, fall is my absolute favorite time of year, for numerous reasons. A cool wave of air sweeps in in the early evening hours and sticks around through mid-morning the next day, when the sun warms things up a bit, making the day neither too hot, nor too cold. It is also apple picking time. Growing up in the Midwest I used to love going with my Grandparents to pick up several bushels of our family’s favorite apple, the Jonathon, a crunchy, sour sweet apple that can be rather hard to find here in the Pacific Northwest. Thankfully, there are plenty of other great apple varieties here to choose from. Apple growers have already started harvesting and over the next several weeks there will be a glorious smorgasbord of apples to be found at local farmers markets and grocery stores. And there will more than likely be a couple of new varieties of apples to wow consumers and take the apple industry by storm. As for me I’m more than ready to break out Grandma’s 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!