Apples for the New Year

I hope your New Year has been going well. I'm practically detoxed from caffeine and ready to take on Yom Kippur.

One of our favorite things to do in the fall is to pick our own apples. There is a great web site with a list of orchards in Virginia. The fall apple season is happening right now and it would be great to have hand-picked apples adorning your holiday table. Many of the orchards also sell honey. (This is where I tend to buy mine for honey cake - so much better than anything in plastic at the grocery store.) Seeing the pre-picked bushels of apples also helps reinforce the feeling of a plentiful harvest that we talk about during Sukkot.

We always wind up with more apples than we planned and have a handful of easy recipes (including some that are pareve so you can easily serve them at a meat meal). I'll post a few of them soon.