Caramel Apples

No corn syrup here. Just delicious good stuff. Pick up mini skewers at the grocery store and you’re all set. 8 small apples 1 cup cream 1 cup honey 1/2 tsp. kosher salt optional toppings: hazelnuts, chopped sea salt or anything else you’d like to roll into your caramel Prepare. Wash apples, press sticks into…

Savory Fried Apples

Now that it’s fall, apples are in abundance. This savory side pairs well with pork. (Consider stuffed pork chops.) 2 large apples (honeycrisp) 1 small cippolini onion 1 tsp. brown sugar 1 tbls. brandy 1 tbls. butter 3 blades of mace* 5 sage leaves, torn 1 bay leaf Heat a 12-inch pan over medium heat….

Yes, we can can!

Well, I did it. I swallowed my fear and plunged those glass jars in that boiling water. No explosions. No applesauce on the ceiling. Nothing but little happy sealed jars all lined up on my counter. Hooray! I feel like I’ve gone through some rite of passage. I can can!! A few weeks ago, I…

How to Dehydrate Apples

Dehydrating is a great way to preserve the flavors of summer and fall. The hardest part is the emotional part – taking delicious plump fruit and willingly committing it to becoming a dry, shriveled memory of itself. I put a lot of cherries away this summer and, though it was hard not to gobble them…