Eating East Coast

Although we live in Washington, I still have a hankering for the foods of my youth. This mostly applies to produce. I’m a farm girl. I have family and friends in the orchard business. I prefer east coast apple varieties to those routinely grown here.

I pulled into Yakima Fruit Market earlier in the month to pick up some lettuce for a Thai beef salad. When I looked at the apple varieties, I saw a huge mound of Rome Beauties. Be still, my fibrillating heart! These are my preferred apples for applesauce. They’re not as sweet as the currently popular Honeycrisps and Cosmic Crisps. They also taste more apple-y.

I used my time-honored recipe from this post. The red pigment from the peels turned the resulting applesauce a deep pink. It was also thick and chunky, just the way I like it. I think I’ll get some more Rome Beauties before the fruit market closes for the season.