Fruit & veg 2

As always, a lot of pumpkins, garlic and maple syrup at the market yesterday. There were also a lot of apples, many of them being sold by the chaps who grew them.

Lots of different sorts, a lot of them a dark red, almost livery, a colour I am rather dubious about in apples, certainly English ones.

But then, in the margins of a syrup stall, we came across a small pile of shiny, orangey-red apples. Great big things, almost spherical in shape, maybe three inches in diameter, all for $2 a pop. There was still a bit of green about the edges which I thought a good thing. The chap on the stall said that it was some very new variety, I forget the name, and I bought one. A very good thing it turned out to be too; the best apple we have had for a while. Very fresh, not more than a day or so old, crisp texture and sweet enough, with a touch of sharpness. One apple was enough for the two of us and I forgot to take its picture until we were half way through it.

PS: the chopping board we are using just presently, visible underneath the apple, is very heavy. So it just as well we did not buy the much larger version mentioned at http://psmv2.blogspot.ca/2014/09/hook-road.html. They might look OK on television chef programmes, where they seem to pop up all the time, but a pain in a real kitchen.