Pausing with apple crumble

One of mum and dad’s apple trees was grafted with three different apple varieties a few years back. This season it’s been going gang busters. The Jonathan variety was ready to pick around Easter, then it was the beautifully tart Granny Smith and now the infamous Pink Lady. It just keeps on giving. And so does mum. If you were to show up at home right now, mum wouldn’t let you leave without a bag of apples! 
 

There’s nothing quite like a homegrown apple. Even the skin has flavour. The apple perfume from each bite gives me such a buzz. But one can only eat so many fresh apples. 
 

When fruit is in abundance, one must cook, stew and bake. 

Helen Goh’s crumble but swap the fruit for apples and add a couple of fresh bay leaves and a cinnamon stick to the fruit mix - these additions add immense flavour and can easily be removed when serving. 

 Pork, fennel and apple sausage rolls for a Saturday lunch. 

 Roast apple chutney for dolloping on roast lamb, gifting to friends or making a toasted cheese and chutney sando. 

Small reflections to ponder whilst enjoying spoonfuls of apple crumble; how does your routine change as the seasons change and why? There’s never a wrong or right answer, it’s simply an opportunity for you to pause, notice and reflect. 

Helzie x