Tree to table

Remember a few months ago when the hubby was pruning the fruit trees? He cut off a lot of branches full of apple blossoms (just one apple tree). It seemed that there were about a million of them this year, so he was sure that we would still have plenty by the time they were ready to set the fruit. We finished up the season with about 50 that the birds didn't take big bites out of. Considering that most years we get 150-200, that's not too great.  

It's hard to tell from the photo, but these are some regular size apples - grocery store size - the size of my fist (which is pretty small for a fist). Most of the fruit from this year's crop were the way these three looked on the tree, pretty spread out. But let me tell ya, they are good eatin'!

At left is what they looked like on Saturday. I made a crisp with some cherries on Sunday and then I baked a pie after work on Wednesday to take to a friend's house.

There are still some for fruit salads and for a few pints of applesauce. I freeze it instead of canning because I think it tastes better like that

So that's what I did this week instead of cleaning out closets and drawers, ah well, there's always next week!