the apple tree in our backyard - long infected with blackrot, gnarly and crooked - has decided to throw a bumper crop this year; one branch of it even turns out to be a whole different kind of apple, grafted on to the bigger tree. i'm not sure what to think - i started pruning it when we moved here five years ago and last year didn't get around to it... and like a lot of stuff in the garden it seem to be doing much better without my help. hmmm...
anyway, so many apples... hard to know what to do with them all. i've made 8 pies now, a couple of apple crisps and have a crockpot of apples cooking into spicy apple butter. here's a photo of one of the pies - this one is a dutch apple pie. i'm using my "best of..." recipe - from the american test kitchen and am looking forward to tasting it. you cook the crust, then cook the apples down with dried fruit (cranberries and golden raisins) and then you drain the juice from the apples and cook it down with whipping cream and pour it over the top and then add a streusil topping that has cornmeal in it. so, a bunch of my favourite things all put together.
and now i have to go practise my guitar. i found a cool new website http://www.guitarnoise.com/ which is handy given that i had to miss my guitar lesson this afternoon... zev was asking how much longer i'll have to study for. i have 9 years and 9 months before i decide if i'm not cut out for playing!
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