We're still reveling in the arrival of tomatoes, and yet already we're getting apples in our CSA. Unfortunately, these late summer apples are a little mealy — not the crisp fall apples we look forward to...
What To Do With Not-So-Great Apples
Since they aren't so satisfying to eat out of hand, we're planning to cook the 13 apples sitting on our countertop. Their flavor is nice — slightly sweet, a little tart — so we'd just like to take advantage of that without worrying about the fact that they don't snap when we bite into them.
We could sauté them in some butter and brown sugar and use them as an ice cream topping. We might bake them into Faith's Apple Custard Tart, although it feels a little too fall right now.
More things we're eyeing:
- Applesauce from Simply Recipes (basic, freezable, and adaptable to a lot of things)
- Cardamom Apple Almond Cake from Epicurious
- Apple and Yogurt Cake from Smitten Kitchen
- Goat Cheese Stuffed Baked Apples from Food Network
What would you do with less-than-perfect apples?
Related: Daily Preserves: Applesauce
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Apple Sauce or Apple Butter!
view mouserkt's profile
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.
view EmmaC's profile
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).
view Nikita's profile
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?
view Aimi's profile
apple juice
view ValHalla's profile
apple chutney!
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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.
view Kaete's profile
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.
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