apples on a train

I saw this commercial on TV today.



I thought it was a pretty great ad. I also wondered two things. Did they really wasted that many apples? Turns out no, it was CGI. Thank goodness because that would have been a total waste. My second thought was, what stop are they at? That subway station was relatively clean and I've never seen one so empty of people.

Keep Your Bites Small

I don't know if this is really a necessary post, but at least it's something new.  And, of course it mentions apples.  Sure it's in a rather odd and unpleasant way, but freedom of the press and all that ...

I'm not familiar with author James Nesbo (I don't know if anybody is -- I can barely find any mention of him online), but in this article discussing his new book he mentions how apples influenced part of the story:

The torture device, known as Leopold's Apple, is a figment of Nesbo’s imagination ... also based on a childhood summer holiday he and his brother spent at their grandmother’s.

He says: “She had a big garden with apple trees and we were not allowed to pick the apples, but she didn’t say anything about eating them.

"So we would climb the trees and eat the apples without picking them. One day my brother challenged me on who could take the widest bite out of the biggest apple. I put a big apple into my mouth without picking it and then I couldn’t get the apple out again.

“I started thinking, the apple is still growing. What would happen if I stayed here for three weeks? Would my head eventually explode?”

Luckily, we can pick apples without trouble from grandma or better yet just buy them in the store.  Although clearly we are all paying the price of not having the apple experiences to make us authors. Anyway, to be on the safe side, please be careful with your bites.

Lunchtime Tuna

I don't know if you really need a step-by-step instructions to make this, but it's here and I stumbled upon it, so why not share the wealth?

Apple Tuna Melts

And I centered that.  It gives it a bit more pizzazz, no?

and it don't snow in Minneapolis...

I've pretty much been eating all Granny Smiths this whole time. I like them. They're both sweet and tart. They're firm enough to make good sauce and pie. I'm coming to the conclusion that they really are the best apple. So I found myself in the store the other day (don't all my stories involve me being in the store) picking out more apples while humming this song. And so I thought I should share.



I forgot I knew this song. I also forgot how great it was. Enjoy.

Apple Saucy

I need to play catch up, so I made apple sauce and ate it all in one sitting. Took the first recipe I found on google...not bad.

Apple Sauce Recipe

Before cooking:

After cooking and mashing. I think I could have mashed a little more:

I've been getting my apples from Nature's Bin lately, thanks to the recommendation from Kate. I like that store a lot. It's like a poor man's Trader Joe's. The apples are cheap and plentiful.

The one thing I don't like is that they put an extra sticker on each apple. It's like a price tag sticker that you'd find on canned soup or something. So there's the usual sticker, plus this other sticker. And it's usually very sticky and harder to take off. But it's okay. Small price to pay.

It does, however, remind me of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and the episode where Charlie eats a pear for the first time. Every time I eat an apple, I think, I eat stickers all the time, dude!

And it makes me laugh. So, I guess it's okay.

That's all. You can (should) view that clip here.

I've got some apples