Dear First name / friend,
Apple Day/Month is not until October but I wanted to send out some love and gratitude TODAY. I love apples, particularly Pink Lady apples for eating. They hold up the longest into the winter months in cold storage and they are firm, crunchy, and delicious.
This past weekend our family made a little Covid outing (really just a car ride anywhere counts as an outing in these days) to Paulus Mt. Airy Orchard in Dillsburg. Right now, they are open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays for your apple shopping pleasure. You can mix and match from over 6 different apple varieties and grab as little or as much as you want. Maybe try them all? We came home with a half bushel because apples are our family's go-to evening snack. And popcorn.
I am so very grateful that I live in a place where apple growing is very popular and I can purchase locally grown apples for most of the year.
Apples are so versatile. They can be used in so many ways. Did you know we use local diced dried apples in two of our granola recipes? In our paleo Adventure Granola and our Almond Apple Cinnamon oat granola. We source these from Three Springs Fruit Farm in Aspers, Pa. Over the weekend I made a waffle recipe that called for apple sauce. One of my favorite farmers market recipes from this past season was our gluten-free Apple Spice Coffee Cake. So many uses for the beautiful fruit we call an apple.
Anyways…I hope your weekend was great! I just wanted to hop into your inbox with a little gratitude for the humble apple and even more importantly for this beautiful region of our state that I get to call home and the farmers who grow all these wonderful apples!
