Early Pickings!
By webeishere
@webeishere (36313)
United States
September 10, 2008 1:22pm CST
Well here is a shot of one of my Haralred Apples out back.
With all thge heat and sunshine all summer long they ripened about a month earlier.
Usually I won't be picking them till October, possibly even late October.
We have picked a few and they are delicsou as well.
Time to get ready for apple pies and apple crips etc at Grandpa Bobs household.
Which do you prefer, pies, tarts, or something else made with fresh picked apples?
Myself I oprefer my wifes Apple crips. It is quick and easy to make using just a few apples for one that will make about 6 servings.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
With all thge heat and sunshine all summer long they ripened about a month earlier.
Usually I won't be picking them till October, possibly even late October.
We have picked a few and they are delicsou as well.
Time to get ready for apple pies and apple crips etc at Grandpa Bobs household.
Which do you prefer, pies, tarts, or something else made with fresh picked apples?
Myself I oprefer my wifes Apple crips. It is quick and easy to make using just a few apples for one that will make about 6 servings.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~5 people like this
16 responses
@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
10 Sep 08
I am not picky when it comes to apple pie or tarts. I like them both. A friend of mine (HI Tami) used to make apple butter a lot with her apples she would get. I am afraid right now if people where I live have anything on trees they might not stay on long, we are on the lookout and watching to see what hurricane Ike is going to do but getting prepared for him no matter what.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
10 Sep 08
Someone gave me a recipe for Applebuter Apple pie.
I may try that this year.
Thanks as usual for your comments on ALL my photos.
Truely appreciated friend.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
10 Sep 08
After you respond to my PM hopefully you'll send your email as well.
I will then email this recipe to you.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
10 Sep 08
H[i]i Grandpa B,
wow...looks very delicious and fresh! Wish I have that in our backyard too! hahaha! Actually, I haven't tried pies and tarts...I always eat it fresh with little salt! LOL! Last weekend, hubby made pancake apple and it was great! I am not use to make such back home!
Looking forward to have your picture for whatever you will come up with your harvest! lOL![/i]
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
10 Sep 08
Thanks.
They are great and I can't wait to get out and pick them.
The grandsons love picking them.
So hopefully they will show up this weekend maybe to help me.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
10 Sep 08
wow...I wish I live nearby, I will ask some! hahahaha! I am sure it will be fun picking! Have a great day Grandpa B!
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
10 Sep 08
Wow, maybe I should check mine..Though I doubt I would get even one apple worth picking..I don't know what it is, maybe because we don't spray, (I try to not use chemicals) or the chipmunks and squirrels get to them first, but we don't have much to pick and the ones we do are the size of a walnut
..If I did have enough apples, I would make pies and apple and dumplings, (a favorite around here on cold winter mornings), and dried appled slices and of course just biting into a crisp apple just picked is great too..
..If I did have enough apples, I would make pies and apple and dumplings, (a favorite around here on cold winter mornings), and dried appled slices and of course just biting into a crisp apple just picked is great too..
@toosh21 (800)
• Australia
10 Sep 08
Oh Grandpa Bob you always make my mouth water with your posts...you have inspired me to get stuck right into the vegetable garden this year & plant everything we eat!
I really can't choose between all the apple dishes and the crisps sound wonderful!
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
10 Sep 08
Looks good....our apple trees have a lot of apples on them, and they are getting red. We picked one yesterday and their not quite ready, still real sour, not sweet yet. If we can get some good ones, this is the first year that its had any worth talking about, I would like to make some apple butter with them, I also like pies, and cobblers. The apple crisp sounds good...
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
11 Sep 08
Hi GRANDPA BOB,
That apple looks so delicious so very big and red, I have never had an apple crisps but I love apple pie, have you done apple cider? that will be nice.
Tamara
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Sep 08
I picked one a little after posting this discussion.
Man it was great.
Talked to my oldest grandson and he is excited
to come out this Saturday and pick them for me.
I've never made cider yet.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Ohhhh sounds good. You should bring an apple crisp out here yummy. I so wish I had a running car but it sounds like it may be awhile. Oh Andy doesnt go to see Emma this Sunday so if you guys wanted to come out and get the brakes done shouldnt be a problem. Let me know and ill double check with him.
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@shana123 (2095)
• India
11 Sep 08
Hi grandpa BOB :)
I like apples and i think if i come to your home hope you will serve me with lots of apple pies.. i dont know how to make apple crips it would have been so good if you have posted how to make that recepie :)
You know what an APPLE a day keeps the doctor away so eat only one apple a day and give the rest to me lol..
GOD BLES..
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Canning apple sauce is still on my list of things to do - I just have no idea when that is going to be but if I don't hurry that mamma deer and her twins are going to eat all the apples before I get to them.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Sep 08
The deers feast on my dads apples up north.
He didn't plant them for eating just for looks and snow barriers.
HAHAHAHA!
He has a few hundred various fruit trees planted in the past 15 years or so.
I like checking the trees out, the deer eat the low apples & the topsare ripened.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Sep 08
When I was a chikld we used a long stick with a
can nailed to it with a rag in the bottom of the can.
reach up with the pole wiggling it on a high up apple
till it fell into the can. An easy task there.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
11 Sep 08
We have one apple tree on the property that must be 100 years old, it's huge, never been trimmed or anything. It gives small apples but millions of them. You can't reach but a few of the apples so we wait until they fall and pick them up. The deer are eating well right now :)
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@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
11 Sep 08
Wow, that's a lovely juicy red apple. It looks so inviting I could eat it off my monitor screen. I wish I could grow apple trees here, but I live in a high-rise apartment and we neither have land nor weather to grow apple trees. But we do get to buy fresh, sweet and crunchy apples from our supermarkets, and so I enjoy eating apples weekly. And oh, I love apple pies too and I do get to eat that from a French pastry shop.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
10 Sep 08
I like apple pie and apple turnovers! Are you going to freeze some of that so you can have it in the winter? I like to put apples in cake with spices and raisins, it's great.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Sep 08
Hi Grandpa Bob Oh I love apple crisps with some nice thick whipped cream.oh my my mouth is drooling already.Apple pie is always good too but usually too much glucose for this diabetic while just crunching a nice juicy apple is always right.I et these would make delicious apple sauce too, and apple butter like my mom used to make. yummy for sure. happy postings.
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@sweethomecatring (1563)
• India
11 Sep 08
I like raw apples pealed with salt and lemon on it very delicious in taste. Try some time and in future you will like it. I am ver much fond of apples. I too like apple juice also.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Salt and lemon on apple slices?
never heard that before.
Why not have a lemon slice with apple juice?
Hahahaha! Joking.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
23 Sep 08
I'm on my way to help myself to a bucket of your wonderfully delicious apples for pies and baking, Grandpa Bob. I'm bringing some homemade biscuits for Buster to eat while I pick so he won't bark the whole time I'm there.
