Recipes
Good fruit does not need much help Recipes built around what is in season, from the people who grow it. Nothing fussy, nothing with fourteen steps.
All Recipes
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Apple and Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwiches
Apple Chutney Spread
Apple Cobbler Parfaits
Apple Creme Brulee
Apple Gingered Fish
Apple Nachos
Apple Orchard Salad
Apple Salad with Candied Bacon and Goat Cheese
Apple Salsa
Apple Strudel
Apple Turkey Wrap
Apple-Cheddar Panini
Apples Roasted with Root Vegetables
Bacon, Lettuce, Apple Bites
Baked Apple-Stuffed French Toast
Caramel Apple Pizza
30 min
Cheesy Apple Quiche
Classic Waldorf Salad
Creamy Apple Medley Crunch Pie
Creamy Blue Cheese & Honey Apple Topped Crostini
Easy Breakfast Cobbler
Five-Step Michigan Apple Pie
Harvest Apple Salad
Individual Apple Upside-down Cakes
Maple Ginger Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Michigan Apple and Butternut Squash Soup
Pasta Salad with Grilled Chicken
Pure Bliss Apple Ginger Scones
Riveridge Spike Pink Lady SAMPLE
A refreshing cocktail to enjoy this summer.
15 min
Roasted Pork with Mustard-Apple Relish
Roasted Rome and Feta Salad
South Pacific Fresh Apple & Sirloin Salad
Spicy Apple Glazed Meat Skewers
Sticky Toffee Apple Crisp with Candied Bacon Streusel
Tropical Twist Apple-Coconut Crumb Pie
Wholesome Muffins
Winter’s Best Cheesecake
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Before You Start
The apple you pick changes the dish.
Almost any variety is fine eaten out of hand. Cooking is where it starts to matter.
Pie and tarts
Tart varieties that keep their shape and their acid through heat. Mixing two beats using one.
Jonathan, Rome, Cortland, Ida Red
Sauce and butter
You want apples that break down. McIntosh collapses almost on its own, which is why it is the classic.
McIntosh, Cortland, Paula Red
Salads and slaws
Firm flesh that holds up under dressing, with enough acid to cut through cheese or something rich.
Honeycrisp, Pink Lady, Braeburn
Crisps and crumbles
Enough structure to survive a long bake without turning to liquid under the topping.
Ida Red, Jonagold, Golden Delicious
Cook What Is Ready
The best recipe is whatever is in season.
Michigan asparagus runs six weeks in late spring. Sweet cherries open around the Fourth of July and are gone by mid-August. Peaches and prune plums land in August. Apples start in mid-August and run through the following spring out of storage.
Fruit picked at peak and moved fast needs less from you in the kitchen. That is the whole argument for cooking seasonally, and it is not a romantic one.
Keep Going
More on the fruit itself.
Tart to sweet
All 19 varieties scored on one scale, so you know what you are working with before you start.
Glossary and origins
What the wax on an apple actually is, why Pink Lady has two names, and where these varieties came from.
Where to buy
Our fruit reaches stores under a lot of different labels. Here is how to find it anyway.
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