I must look hungry. A week after Lynn gave me a bunch of food, my weightlifting teacher gave me a bunch of apples from his tree. “Take all you want,” he said. “We’re never going to be able to use them all.” He even grabbed a large paper grocery bag, handed it to me and gave pointers on selection.
These are Lodi apples.
Pretty, aren’t they? Loren said they’re not so great for eating out of hand but make great pies and applesauce. The Seasonal Ontario link above says something different. Everyone seems to agree they don’t store well. Unfortunately, I’ve been very busy (why can’t I be independently wealthy?!), so I haven’t done anything with them yet.
Deadlines are good. I’ve had these apples five days, so I need to act within the next week, preferably within a few days. I’m going to make some sauce. I think I’m going to try to dry some, maybe make an apple crisp. In the meantime, I’m reveling in my good fortune. If you have favorite tips for Lodi apples, let me know!
Joanne // Jul 23, 2008 at 8:43 am
I have Lodis in my frig right now. They can taste good as an eating apple when they are super fresh, but they get mealy fast, I find. I am likely to make sauce with them this time; I also make a very nice apple chocolate chip cake that seems to be fine with Lodis. (I do it with any apple I’ve got around!) My weird plan is to make spiced applesauce and then make that into sorbet. I think it would be refreshing and since I’ve a long season of apples ahead, I don’t want to deal with canning them yet.
Enjoy!
Janet Majure // Jul 27, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Hi, Joanne. Sorry to take so long to respond. Spiced apple sorbet sounds wonderful. Did you do it?
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