Apple of my eye (not!)
I used to like apples, what with one of them a day keeping the doctor away. But this is too much.
A neighbor with a farm in the Eastern Townships invited us to come apple picking in his orchard, and loaded us up with four shopping bags full of tasty pommes. At first I was delighted (farm-fresh tastes so much better that the mealy apples at the grocery store), but now I’m guilt-ridden, watching them slowly rot in my refrigerator. With a tiny city kitchen — i.e. no place to cook and store 50 jars of apple butter — I just can’t keep up with the abundance of apples.
Now I understand why people used to give them away on Halloween. It wasn’t so they could secretly slip a razor blade or poison inside. They just got sick of having apples as a side dish every night.
Maybe you could give them to a foodbank nearby?
Or you could make some tasty treats for fellow Metrobloggers! ;)
Kidding! :)
Laiya has a pretty good idea actually. Go with that.
Apple sauce.. apple jam.. add sugar, lasts forever.
You guys are trying to trick me into cooking, aren’t you?
Laiya does indeed have a good idea, but in my experience with food banks, they tend to want non-perishables. Maybe I’ll try again.
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If you go with the jam.. lemme know. I’ll take some off your hands. ;-)
Here’s the thing: I don’t cook. When I moved out of my last apartment after two years, I thought I ought to clean the oven. Then I realized it was perfectly clean — I’d never even removed the cardboard that came inside the oven when I bought it. Because I’d never used it. And now you’re asking me to make jam??
There’s a first for everything, Lisa! ;)
… Besides, you only need the stovetop for jam, not the oven. :P
I’m with Lisa. I don’t cook either. When friends come over, they think my stove top looks so clean. That’s because it doesn’t get used very much. But I am an expert microwaver… Maybe if the food bank doesn’t want the apples, you could try a soup kitchen or unloading them on your kids’ teachers for some extra brownie points?
Maybe a food bank wants non perishables but there are tons of “soup kitchens” which would love apples! For example, Multi-Caf in Côte-des-Neiges…
How about dried apples? I managed to handle some 10+ pounds of them that way. Makes a great snack that keeps forever.
Core, slice thin, leave single-layered on lined baking sheet overnight under your coolest oven setting.