Serene Vannoy wrote:
> Julia Altshuler wrote:
> > Kswck wrote:
>
> >> I find when I make something elaborate, I don't want it once it's
> >> finished.
> >> I guess it has to do with tasting here, seasoning there, tasting
> >> again, etc.
> >> By the time it is finished, I want more of the accolades of people
> >> eating the dish than actually eating it myself.
>
> > When I'm cooking something fancy, a lot of the cooking is in the
> > presentation. �It's getting the pie crust just right instead of just
> > making baked apples. �
>
> Yep. But on a tangent, I took apples off my tree yesterday and made an
> apple crumble out of them (just tossed them with sugar and topped with a
> butter/sugar/cinnamon/oats topping and baked). �It was yummy, and really
> gratifying to use my own apples.
>
> I don't know what kind of apples they are. They taste kind of like a
> tarter fuji.


Where do you live that you can pick apples in mid July?