Apple season is now in full swing in my part of the world. Researchers say that an apple a day truly does keep the doctor away. Studies have shown that by consuming apples on a regular basis, we can protect ourselves from cancer and diabetes. Apples are also believed to promote lung and cardiovascular health, because they contain a good amount of fiber (most of it comes from the peel) and vitamin C.
There's many apple recipes to choose from. One of my favorites are sauteed apples. Sauteed apples make a nice dessert during the autumn months, when they're the tastiest. For this recipe you can choose any type of apples you desire. Can you believe there's 7,500 varieties world wide? Wow! Now that's a lot of apples.
Ingredients;
4 medium apples, sliced and unpeeled
2 tbs freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 tbs butter
2 tbs honey
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
4 whole cinnamon sticks
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1 scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt (optional)
In a medium bowl, toss the apple slices with lemon juice and set aside. In a skillet melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the vanilla and honey. Add the apple slices to the pan and stir well. Sprinkle apples with nutmeg and place the cinnamon sticks in the pan. Cover and heat for an additional 5 to 8 minutes, while stirring a few times in between. When your apples are done, serve them on four small plates, next to a scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt if desired. Finish each plate off with one cinnamon stick for a pretty presentation.
18 comments:
I love sauteed apples with cinnamon, honey and nutmeg, Lydia. I have never eaten them with a scoop of frozen vanilla yoghurt, though. I'll try that now.
Thanks for sharing this great recipe.
Hi Olivia, Your very welcome. I love this recipe with a side of frozen yogurt at times for a little change. You'll love it too.
There is a nice poem about apples by Robert Frost, Lydia:
My long two-pointed ladder's
sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still.
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon the bough.
But I'm done with apple-picking now.
The side benefit of this recipe is how wonderful it smells while baking, too! I love fresh fall apples. We planted two apple trees at our new house, but so far we've only had one apple! Looking forward to a whole bunch in a year or two when they get established.
What is your favorite variety for baking, Lydia? My mother always used Jonathans for baking for their tartness, but I'm always looking for new ones. I just recently found a "honey crisp" variety that is wonderful to snack on.
Hello Sue, I've wanted to plant a few apple trees for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Your fortunate to have some apple trees. I'm sure you'll get a good yield off of them soon. Apples are my number one favorite fruit and they always have been. My 3 favorites for both snacking and baking are Ginger Golds, Gala and crispins. I've never heard of the Honey Golds. I'll look for them while I'm visiting my local apple stores, cause I would love to try them.
Hi Olivia, I really like that poem. During apple season I'm sure one could pick for hours with the abundance of apples on the trees. This year the apples in my parts are a bit more expensive than usual. First because of the little rain we received and second because of the alarming and mysterious decrease in our bee population.
Yum. That sounds delicious.
I might have to eat mine with vanilla ice cream.
Love apple butter this time of year too.
~Oswegan
Lydia, my husband likes sauteed apples as a side dish, and the vanilla yogurt sounds good to me, too!
There are quite a few apple orchards in this ares, and some of them allow you to pick your own apples, which a lot of people enjoy doing.
Hi Oswegan, I love apple butter too. It's great for breakfast on toast. You've reminded me that I must take advantage of the season and pick up some apple butter as well.
Hello Jan, I use to live close to an orchard that allowed you to pick your own apples. Me and my mom use to go and pick apples all the time. I loved doing that with her on those warm indian summer afternoons. I may even take a ride there again, so I can bring my children to pick some apples. I'm sure they would enjoy it.
warm Indian summer
time to pick apples from trees
such sweet memories
Very nice photo, Lydia.
Good text too.
Tank you
Sounds very delicious. I LOVE apples. Near us, there is a place that grows heritage apples and they are so small and sweet. I have two ballerina apple trees in my front yard which grow like a pole. I am hoping March next year shall yield some apples for us.
Hello Dave, Thank you for visiting and thanks so much for the complement.
Hi Olivia, picking apples with my mom is a very sweet and special memory, I will keep with me always.
Wow Linda, your Ballerina apple trees sound very unique. I don't believe we have any that grow that way where I'm from. I've never heard of the heritage apples either, but they sound delicious.
Here in the SW, I have an apple problem. Always, I cooked either with greenings (old fashioned pie apples with no pretensions) or with little tart crips Jonathans. That was in Chicago. Here, we do not get apples from the Midwest or East -- only from Washington. And I am unhappy to say that the Washington growers pay a lot more attention to the appearance (big, bright, shiny) than to the flavor. Jonathans have started coming in from Wash. & truly they aren't as good as those scrawnier ones I always got from Michigan or New York! The best apples I have found are those dropped by old trees that have been here for years and years and years. Tart, crips. All those good things!!!
heelo Granny J, Thanks for visiting my blog. It's a shame you have trouble finding tasty apples in your parts. I don't like buying my apples from the grocery store, cause they seem to do the same thing Your describing. They would rather sell their apples for the way they look and sacrafice the flavor. I try to stick to the apple stores when they're opened for the season.
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