It was an ordinary day. Walking around the Giant Supermarket looking for a few apples that Carol can use to make me homemade apple dumplings. When we were first married over 50 years ago, Carol began using a family recipe to make me apple dumplings. Great meal after a hard day of teaching my high school photography and graphic arts classes. Back then I could easy eat three of her apple dumplings with milk and sugar on them.
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Newspaper page telling about apples.
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Well, recently there was a full-page article in our local paper that told of all the different types of apples that can be found this time of year. Most I had never heard of before. Apples with names such as Blondee which is best for going on a picnic, Jonamac which is good to eat with cheese, Red Rubin which is good for salads, Autumn Crisp which is good for eating out of hand, Crimson Crisp which is for people who don't wear dentures and Akane which is good for baking. But, none of them told how good they would be if used to make Carol's apple dumplings. Well, we read all about each one of the apples and she picked out the one she thought she would try to make some apple dumplings for me. Added it to the shopping list and off we went to the Giant Supermarket.  |
The Granny Smith apples that Carol chose.
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Parked the car, put our masks in place and grabbed our reusable bags as we headed in to the store. The first section in this store is the produce section so she began to look for the Akane apples. No where to be found! They had all the recognizable apples such as the Fuji, Red delicious, Golden delicious, Gala and Granny Smith. Once again they had apples that we had never heard of such as Envy, Jazz and Rave. You take those three and the half dozen or so that were listed in the paper and you have a huge selection that neither of us had ever heard of before. She chose the Granny Smith, since that is what she had used for ages to make her apple dumplings. Well the smell when I walked in the kitchen from the garage after mowing the grass was amazing. Smelled a bit like an apple pie, but with a more sugary smell to them. The entire first floor had the amazing smell to it. Washed up, watched a bit of the 5:00 local news and supper was ready. Couldn't handle three of them, but did manage to down two of them. I like to put one in a bowl, poor cold milk over it and after using my spoon to break it apart, I sprinkled a bit more sugar on it. We talked about maybe trying another type of apple the next time to see if we can tell a difference. "How about next week?" I asked. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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Carol's apple dumpling made with a Granny Smith apple.
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Put hot apple dumpling in a bowl, add milk and a spoonful of sugar. Delicious!
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