Fruit Talk

[poliphilo]

We have lots of apples- and there are still plenty more on the tree. It's my father-in-law's tree but he isn't eating any. Ailz took some with her on a curtain-buying trip yesterday and handed them out to friends and family. Today I made apple sauce. I make good apple sauce. Cut apples up,  add a generous amount of fresh ginger, cook in orange juice or white wine (whichever is closer to hand), add sugar to taste (I don't add any because we're going low carb). My father-in-law also has a pear tree- and it's loaded  but not yet ready to pick.  I'm not fond of pears. I think they're bland- and I don't know of any way of fixing them I enjoy. His plum tree- which was brilliant last season and the season before- seems to have died. 

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I like apples stewed in white wine, but hadn't considered adding ginger. Must try that.

Pears don't do much for me, either. The house in which I grew up had a pear tree. To me, the most interesting thing about it was the large nest the bald-faced hornets built there, each year. They loved the pears and you had to be very careful where you stepped, as a consequence.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a house that had a little orchard of fruit trees- plum and apple and pear. My mother used to make loads of jam.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

My fondest memory is of my mother's cherry trees. I can remember, as plainly as if it were yesterday, that when they came in I would get up each morning, before dawn, climb to the top of the tree, and stuff myself full of cherries while they were still wet with dew.

Also, I was terribly spoiled by such experiences. I don't much care for fruit because it too often only reminds me of what fruit is supposed to be like.