An apple a day...keeps the techno-phobics away. Excuse me, I meant to say the doctor away. Fooled you right? You thought this was going to be about Apple Inc. Ohh no..."Houston, we have a problem." You see...today every time we hear the word "apple" we almost automatically begin to think of the great Apple Inc computers and mobile devices of the past 30 years or so. Below is my 2005 iMac machine which proved to be a very solid machine during the height of it's short lifetime.
No no no...folks I was talking about the original apple. You know the kind that you eat? Oh yes this is them below! These are the original "apples" that used to set the world on fire when you simply mentioned their name. Red apples, green apples, tart apples, sweet luscious and of course Macintosh apples. Once again...an apple a day keeps the techno-phobic away...or at bay...or out of the way. Especially when the Fall season hits the Northeastern parts of the United States...and our luscious apples become ripe for the seasonal apple pie making!
When I was a child, during the Fall season, there used to be just two words that would set every child's ear on fire wanting to grab themselves a peek in momma's kitchen. Those two words were "apple pie". In addition, depending on your home grown family palette, the only other pies that spun your head around would be sweet potato and pumpkin pie at this time of the year. Seemed like everyone's mother had some kind of family or self learned recipe. Or the moms actually called each other on the telephone and shared some secret recipe to add something a little different to jazz up their well know apple pie version.
Back then the kitchen phone always had the longest cord in the house. My mother would stretch it to it's furthest reaches in the kitchen while she spun pie plates, pie crust, butter, fresh cut apples, Carnation milk, cinnamon spices, vanilla extract flavoring, brown sugar, etc, etc...
Pictured below is two recently made apple pies by a longtime friend of mine. She loves showing off her tremendous cooking skills over on City Island!
Apple pie making has been a long standing tradition throughout many parts of the US. Many people have their own family recipes for making these. There are also plenty of online recipes for making these. When I was growing as a kid in NYC...you could walk up and down the stairs in your building just before Halloween (and certainly during Thanksgiving) holidays and smell the apple pies, the pumpkin pies and the sweet potato pies cooking in someone's apartment. Hopefully this will be a tradition that will never ever leave the American scene.
If any of my readers have a recipe for making apple pie that they would like to share, please feel free to do so in the comment section. For now...please pass me two scoops of vanilla ice cream...and a nice, warm slice of apple pie!
