One Apple So Many Recipes

 This is apple picking season and that means many home chefs will have baskets of them. They'll also be asking themselves what to do with the Braeburns or MacIntosh's they've picked. Apples can go either savory or sweet. They're a versatile fruit.

My kitchen will also be filled with orchard grown apples. One recipe I know I will make is crockpot apple sauce. I've made this before and I like the easiness of the recipe. It's just cooking up six sliced and cored apples and slow cooking them with a splash of lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. I will probably sub in maple syrup for the sugar. This homemade treat is excellent with potato pancakes and both make a great fall dinner. Galette is on my  radar too. It's rustic look is appealing and a lovely dessert. Of course there are baked apples and I want to make them in the air fryer.

Apple slices are good in savory dishes too, Many home chefs use them in German pork dishes.They're sliced and cooked with the meat. Some put the slices in sauerkraut to give some sweetness to the usually tart cabbage. I think I'll use mine in a salad, along with walnuts and grapes for a nice fall spin, For fun I may try an apple slaw which combines shredded or mandoline sliced apples with cabbage and a vinaigrette. This would make a good side to late season barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers.

It's apple season and that means a jaunt in an orchard. It's always a fun trip full of possibilities. A basket of apples equala weeks of tasty recipes .

It's Coleridge's Birthday!!!

 Celebrate this amazing poet , Samual Taylor Colerdige born this October 21st in Ottery, St Mary's East Devon, England  Celebrate the foods he would have enjoyed, namely clotted cream and jam on scones,a good tea, possibly a good beef roast dinner with all the trimmings and that frothy treat syllabub.

As for me, I'm celebrating with these all American cupcakes.