Food Bites

Fall is here in theory so my mind begins to turn from stone fruit to hard fruit like apples and pears. My mom swears by Cortland apples to make apple pie.  At some point I will take a stab at apple pie but not this weekend. Recently I've tried a couple of Arizona grown apples recently. One was organic red delicious apple.  Since it didn't actually look like a red delicious apple I bought it to see what it would taste like. I should admit that I hate red delicious apples. I seem to remember liking them when I was kid and thinking about it now I can't figure out why.  They taste weird, not like an apple should. Anyway the red delicious apple I bought actually was sweet and had flavor. Whoa! It must have been an heirloom variety or something.

I also picked up a few small bunches of Arizona grown concord grapes.  These were also grown locally in the area of New York I grew up in.  I called them squeeze grapes when I was a kid and thinking about it I can't remember when the last time I had them.  With this recent batch I thought they were kind of a pain to eat, but had fun doing it.

In the last couple of years I've had several things grown in Arizona that I had no idea could even grow here.  Wonder what else grows around this state that I don't know about.