Serene Vannoy wrote:
>
> 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.


We've just returned from our first trip to our local orchard this
summer. They have you-pick blueberries, peaches, and apples. I sniffed
the apples and didn't get that wonderful fresh apple smell. We passed
them up. They did have magnificent peaches. They were so fragrant they
practically filled the car with aroma. The woman who works there
(owns?) said that they won't have blueberries by the pint until Wednesday.


It's been too hot to send the workers out to pick in the daytime. She
was surprised that anyone was willing to pick for themselves in this
heat. I told her it wasn't too bad if you didn't spend more than a half
hour out at a time. That's the way I've been getting the raspberries
from our garden.


Which is the point of this post. If you can brag about apples, I've got
to brag about raspberries. We have so many that I've been pureeing
them, pressing them through a strainer to remove the seeds, and making
raspberry cubes.


--Lia