This is the biggest and heaviest apple from my garden and it is a BRAMLEY, an English cooking apple. My daughter brought me the tree from England 10 years ago and it's happy in my orchard (verger). This year I have lots of fruit and big ones. It's very sour (acide) but once cooked less (moins) and it becomes light and fluffy (mousseuse).
I've made lots of compote, put some in the freezer and some in jars, and eaten a lot.
I'm going to try apple chutney, it's delicious eaten with cheese.
Tag - apple
Sunday, August 21 2011
THE BIGGEST APPLE
By carolweb on Sunday, August 21 2011,
Wednesday, February 9 2011
THE FOURTH APPLE
By carolweb on Wednesday, February 9 2011,
This is a new statue in Paris near the Place de Clichy, Paris 18. It has a very interesting story: it replaces the statue of Charles Fourier which was melted down (fondu) by the Germans during the war.
Why the fourth apple? The first was the apple offered to Adam by Eve in the Garden of Eden, the second offered to Venus by Paris, the third, the one that dropped on Newton's head.
Fourier's theories on society were illustrated by an apple, when he realised the apple he ate as a dessert at a restaurant in Paris was 100 times the price he bought it in the country.
But you can read all about it in ENGLISH on a superb blog
or in FRENCH, it's own special site.
People passing by are very intrigued and what a pity (quel dommage) the very small plaque doesn't explain all this and doesn't give the internet address of the site.I intend (j'ai l'intention) next time I go to take a pen and write the address on it!
Monday, August 9 2010
APPLE - une pomme
By carolweb on Monday, August 9 2010,
What is it? A close-up (une macro) of a red and yellow apple that I picked (cueillie) in my apple tree (pommier) in my orchard (verger).
I decied to stop looking for rust on skips (la rouille sur les bennes) and look closer (plus près) at things in my garden.
I also found these:
A beautiful work of nature. They are wings of a CRICKET that had drowned (s'était noyé) in my pool. I think it must have decided to go for a midnight swim (un bain de minuit; 
There are lots of crickets in little holes (des trous) in my lawn (ma pelouse) and they make a loud noise (un bruit fort) when they all sing at night in Spring. You can listen to the song on the Wikipedia page. Imagine it multiplied by 50!