Yesterday we went to pick apples just down the road…
since then the kitchen has been a hive of activity…
Mehu Liisa
There was a little time yesterday to do something that didn’t involve apples. I made harissa paste with some of the abundant chillie harvest…
The Snail of Happiness 
Annie
/ October 7, 2017We have an apple mountain here too. Been storing the good ones in newspaper in cardboard boxes and freezing the not o good ones.
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Laurie Graves
/ October 7, 2017Beautiful, beautiful. Love this apple time of year. Baked apples, here we come!
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Pat
/ October 7, 2017Yummy! I swear there’s something magical about apples. 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 7, 2017And the smell in our kitchen is amazing!
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nanacathy2
/ October 7, 2017That is impressive, so many apples.
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katechiconi
/ October 7, 2017What a lovely colour that juice is. You can easily imagine the fresh flavour, instead of the syrupy ‘cooked’ taste of that brown commercial stuff….
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 7, 2017Having read about the things they do to make commercial fruit juices, I may never drink any again.
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katechiconi
/ October 7, 2017I’ve just read about something *else* you can do with a glut of apples. The link is here:
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 8, 2017Oooh that’s interesting…. I haven’t got a dehydrator, but I’m sure I can figure something out.
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katechiconi
/ October 8, 2017They’re not expensive, if you fancy trying it. I used to have one but gave it away because I find I prefer freezing or bottling, but I made some sensational fresh banana chips and some nice mango leather. Otherwise, I know there are some good solar versions to build yourself on the interweb, if Mr Snail fancies getting his hammer and the tinfoil out…
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 9, 2017I borrowed one a couple of years ago, but. like you, decided that I preferred bottling and freezing. Sadly the friend who lent it to me has now moved away, but I’ll put out an appeal and see if anyone local has one I can have for a week. I suspect that a solar version would only work here in the summer as the air is so humid at this time of year.
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katechiconi
/ October 9, 2017You’re probably right, the solar ones are popular here, but duh, sunshine!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 9, 2017I have seen one working in the UK, but I suspect it was only useable for a relatively short part of the year.
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MrsCraft
/ October 7, 2017You’ve been busy! Mr C’s dad has 3 apple trees on his allotment and we’ve ‘helped’ him out by using a few. It’s been a good year for fruit by all accounts, at least here.
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thecontentedcrafter
/ October 7, 2017Wonderful! I bet everything smells all apple-y and delicious ❤
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Murtagh's Meadow
/ October 7, 2017Busy, busy!
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KerryCan
/ October 8, 2017I love apple season! They are abundant here, too, and I need to get out and bring a bunch home!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 9, 2017Despite a weekend of apple-related activity, the kitchen is still full of them! But I do have bottles of juice, jars of stewed apple and an apple crumble too. The hens have also been enjoying the lest-overs from juice-making.
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crawcraftsbeasties
/ October 10, 2017Mmm, yum! Did you add other fruits to give your juice that lovely pink colour, or is it just the species of apple you used?
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 10, 2017The pink develops naturally… even from green apples!
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crawcraftsbeasties
/ October 11, 2017Interesting! It really does make you wonder what they have to do to make concentrated apple juice that brown colour…
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 11, 2017I think they must chop up the apples and leave them to go brown before they get crushed.
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crawcraftsbeasties
/ October 12, 2017Mmmm, delicious! 😝
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painterwrite
/ October 10, 2017YUM! Although I’ve gleaned tons of blackberries and plums around my neighborhood, I’m yet to find an unsuspecting apple tree to add to my fruity stores. And I forgot to pick up apples from the farm stand yesterday, so another week goes by without being able to try out that apple bread recipe you sent. Sigh…hopefully next week I’ll remember.
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projectnerdy
/ October 23, 2017Love your blog! And the apples do look yum!!!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 23, 2017Thank you!
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