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I love fall ... just ate my first Honeycrisp of the season

JDub02

JDub02

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The one thing I miss about living in upstate NY is the great selection of apples. I had never heard of a Honeycrisp until my first fall in Syracuse. Definitely the best variety of apple ever .. crunchy and sweet with just the right amount of tartness. The grocery stores here in VA have now started carrying Honeycrisps. Not quite as good as having them fresh in NY, but tasty none the less.

Anyone else feel that Honeycrisps are the best apple around?
 
Undisputed champion of apples. Our local grocer just got in their first batch of the season, but they are like 3.50/lb. :Q I bought 7 anyway, but jeez..
 
Originally posted by: torpid
They are good, but I still prefer a good Pink Lady over Honeycrisp.
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I haven't seen any of those. I'll have to look around the produce department. I've never had one and now I'm curious. Odd name, though.
 
I actually saw those for the first time here in Socal yesterday. I chickened out and went with my regular Gala apples. I will have to give them a try now.
 
My parents own a few honeycrisp trees - they were some of the first in our state (MN) to have some. They are very good - nothing better than a fresh-picked apple.
 
About 30 minutes from Sacramento is a place called Apple Hill. It's a circuit of a little over 8 miles of mostly apple orchards and during the fall they have big events. We were up there last weekend and picked up a couple fresh-baked pies and some apple donuts. They also have fresh squeezed cider, apple butter, etc. And, ya, every apple imaginable sold buy the crate.
 
Las night I made an apple pie from apples my mother had given us.

I never follow a recipe with apple pie, just throw it all together and try to remember what I like from last time

1\4 brown sugar
Ounce of rum
1\8 tsp salt
1-2 TBL lemon juice
Oddly I was out of cinnamon so I just sprinkled some pumpkin pie spice in
Purchased pie crusts 🙁
1 TBL cold butter chopped up on top before putting the top crust on.

Very yummy.
 
I used to work at The U of M Landscape Arboretum in IT...Free Honeycrisps, I could go pick em off the tree and NUM NUM NUM away!

The 'license' for those apples are coming up (The U of M has the sole right to create these apples, but 'contract' it out to other apple farms), so they may be around in a lot more places.
 
Never seen Honeycrisp apples in the store - I'll have to go on a search for some. I usually get Gala, Fuji, or Golden Delicious.
 
cortland are the best. crisp juicy and sweet. i just picked some last weekend from my grandmothers orchard. i was spoiled as a kind growing up a couple miles from her 40 acre orchard. i got all the fresh off the tree apples i could eat.
 
Partial to Gala and Fuji, but have never had a Honeycrisp.

Are they similar to the Mackinaw peaches from Seinfeld?
 
Originally posted by: JDub02
The one thing I miss about living in upstate NY is the great selection of apples. I had never heard of a Honeycrisp until my first fall in Syracuse. Definitely the best variety of apple ever .. crunchy and sweet with just the right amount of tartness. The grocery stores here in VA have now started carrying Honeycrisps. Not quite as good as having them fresh in NY, but tasty none the less.

Anyone else feel that Honeycrisps are the best apple around?
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Yes they are. I just got a bag on Sat!! YUM!
 
Originally posted by: JDub02
The one thing I miss about living in upstate NY is the great selection of apples. I had never heard of a Honeycrisp until my first fall in Syracuse. Definitely the best variety of apple ever .. crunchy and sweet with just the right amount of tartness. The grocery stores here in VA have now started carrying Honeycrisps. Not quite as good as having them fresh in NY, but tasty none the less.

Anyone else feel that Honeycrisps are the best apple around?
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You must've had a Cortland apple if you lived in Syracuse. Those are my favs.
 
Pink Lady is my favorite, my trees are a week or two from being ripe. I'm realy going to miss all the tomatoes from my garden, I've goten used to eating two or three at almost every meal.
 
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