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Apple Sauce or Apple Butter!

Omg, and try these in that skillet apple pie recipe from the most recent issue of Cook's Illustrated. That pie is to DIE for.

Very weird timing! We bought some apples this weekend and they are not good eating apples. I'm going to make an apple skillet cake for the first time tonight (recipe from Jacque Pepin).

If apple pie and such are "too fall" for you, perhaps you could find a freezer-friendly recipe and cook and save them for fall?

apple juice

apple chutney!

The cold weather inspired me to grab a bag of apples, and I was shocked by how soft and grainy they were! Really more the texture of eating a pear, almost. I was not happy at all.

Unfortunately, while I love the look of apple pie and even enjoying making it, I just don't like eating it. Never have been a big pie person.

I guess I'm just going to have to make a huge pot of applesauce.

my f-i-l has a vintage press, so each year, usually late october, we take all the apples from our two 50 yr old trees out to his place, mix in some of his apples and make the best cider ever. our apples are very late season, have a middlin tart flavor, usually slightly wormy and often not great texture. i guess that's what happens when you don't really tend the trees other than to prune them.