Lately, as I rush out of the house in the morning grabbing at the fruit basket before I go, my reaction tends to be the same, “Apples, again!”
Now I love apples. But by this time of year we’ve been on a steady diet of apples as primary fruit since … oh … about September.
What I want are peaches. Juicy, fuzzy Ontario peaches.
And I want those few precious strawberries from the handful of plants in our garden.
I also want cherries, straight from Niagara.
But all I got is apples.
So I made me some Apple Pie Bars and pretended I was eating them in the middle of a blackberry patch on a sunny afternoon.
Have a good week!
Ciao!
Note: For this edition of Magazine Mondays, I finally tried the recipe for Apple Pie Bars from Food & Wine‘s March 2008 issue. If you have to eat apples, you might as well dress them up!
21 comments
peabody
I’m good with apples again. Infact I just made apple and blackberry crisp tonight.
Pasticcera
I’ll have a slice of your apples again. I can relate to that and won’t tell you about all the colorful fruit coming into our markets these days. That wouldn’t be very nice now would it. Hope your season hurrys up!
Holly
Looks delish!!! And I can’t wait to make some strawberry dishes… the farm stands are beginning to have such yummy ones!
Carrie Fields
I feel your pain on the apples….soon though there will be lots of color in your basket. Those bars though make it all worth while it would seem. They look amazing!
Jade
We have apple abundance here too – damn those orchards
I love apples in September and I’m totally sick of them by the middle of winter. This looks like a great recipe to reinvent them a bit!
Patricia Scarpin
Apples are one of my favorite fruit to bake with, Ivonne – that is luscious!
LINA
I wish I could say “apples again!?” but sadly it is not apple season in southern california so I havent come across a really yummy apple in a while. At least we got the strawberries right now!
Your apple bars look wonderfully satisfying~!
Dana
With desserts this good, I think it would be hard to get *that* sick of eating apples. YUM!
VeggieGirl
Ivonne, I’m 100% with you – as much as I love apples (I eat one every single day, haha), I need more variety in my produce!! Give me stone fruits and berries, already!! But hey, those Apple Pie Bars make me want to take back that last statement ;0) Yum!
Kitchen Goddess
OMG! I want one of those right now, so mouthwateringly good.
Lydia (The Perfect Pantry)
Of all the fruits, apples are what I most like cooked. I love almost any fruit raw, but cooked apples are my passion. Now I’ll have to get that issue of the magazine out of my pile…
MyKitchenInHalfCups
Those look incredibly good. I don’t think I could get tired of them that way.
katy
yum! apples are my favorite snack, so i don’t mind that they’re always front-and-center at our farmer’s market. but i wouldn’t mind some peaches too!
Abby
I’ve been bookmarking apple-pie recipes lately for some reason. I guess the baby wants apples, too! For us right now, however, it’s strawberries, strawberries, strawberries. (Personally can’t wait for peach season in a couple of months!)
The bars look GREAT. As always.
heather
yummo! i hear ya on the peaches. i go to the farmer’s market every single week hoping for them, knowing full well i have at least another 3 weeks. hope springs eternal, though!
Kevin
That looks good! I am looking forward to the fresh Ontario fruits and berries though!
Ginny
I agree! Can’t wait until peaches and cherries come in! apples are good too though!
Miss Bebop
looks delicious!!
Hillary
There is so much you can do with apples. I like this idea!
katie
Apple pie bars…. That could be the solution!
Like you, no plums yet, or peaches, or strawberries… just apples. Even the kiwifruit is long gone!
Linnea
Hi Ivonne
) I was just going to say…the crust looks like shortbread…and indeed it was 
) those look delicious!! I actually have one apple in the fridge, but it feels old and wrinkley…like it’s lost its crunch. I think I might make a serving of apple sauce with it, if it isn’t yucky on the inside. Have a great weekend 
)!!