A catch-up on my New England activities

So after moving to Cambridge from Los Angeles (God, I miss you so much) in August, I was told by the locals that THE thing to do in New England is, wait for it... apple picking. FML.

And so I picked up a zipcar with some friends and drove out to Bolton, MA, which is a good 45 minutes from Boston. At the end of the mini trip I was somehow left with 45 lbs of apples and 10 lbs of peaches at my apartment. Holy... I was up to my eyeballs in apples. So when life gives you apples you make apple everything. I think it took me almost a month to finish off.

The 10 lbs of peaches were rather easy to make use of. I made peach preserves and peach cobbler with my buddy Joanna. Mmmm, the peach cobbler was out of this world delicious. Sorry, I don't have a picture of it on a plate a la mode and all that jazz. It pretty much went directly from pan to stomach. I don't think I chewed.


And do you like my peach preserves label? Haha, I really need a life.

Now here comes the apple stuff: apple pork chops, apple muffins, apple jam, and apple pie.


I also made apple sauce, apple crisps, apple dumplings, and apple tart! The tart and crisps were really good and pretty too! But my mouth got to all of it before the camera did. Le sigh. It'll have to wait 'til next time.