Simple Pleasures
I am eating a wonderful, most delicious apple, not Delicious, but great tasting. It's sweet and sort of zesty, and cold and crisp and I am enjoying it immensely. It's making me think of a simple pleasure I've enjoyed long ago. When I was a child, we always had a snack after we came home from evening church. Often we had a bowl of cereal before bed and always called it a "Midnight Snack," though it was long before midnight. However, it seems to me that Sundays were different. One of my favorite snacks on Sunday nights was homemade bread and butter and a cup of cocoa. That was a late night snack worthy for a king. This apple that I've just finished eating was every bit that good. I'd tell you what kind of apple it is if I could spell its name. It is a Japanese name. The apple is really big and a golden green color and the taste is, -well, it's delicious!
Submitted by
NJ
at 3/28/2004 9:30:22 PM- Dipping vegetables into that "sauce" sounds very intriguing to me. I remember once at Olive Garden at a family celebration some of us got bread with a special olive oil dressing to dip it in. It was wonderful, but I think it didn't have a slimming effect.
This apple that I bought is something like Matsu, the way it's pronounced. It makes me think Mitsubishi, but of course that isn't it. I buy them from the fruit truck at the plaza and I just hear the man say the name and haven't seen it in print, as if that would have helped me remember how to spell it. I tend to not remember spelling for proper nouns. Sigh. Perhaps that Fuji apple is something like my Mitsubishi!
Submitted by
Lorraine
at 3/29/2004 7:14:19 AM- I went to the Google search engine and looked up Fuji and Matsu apples. I certainly learned a lot about apples this morning! You are correct..the greens are the Matsu. The Fuji are a rosy color. Both have simular characteristics when eating (sweet and crunchy), but the Matsu make good baking apples too. Fuji's take much longer to bake. Sometimes Matsu apples are called Crispin apples.
Maybe my grandmother wanted to give us a healthier snack and substituted vegetables for the bread, or maybe where she came from in Italy (Abruzzi region) that's the way they did it.
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NJ
at 3/29/2004 10:22:03 AM- That way to eat vegetables sounds very appealing. I should try it. So it really is spelled Matsu! I cut them up and put them in with my morning oatmeal. I cut up three fourths of the apple into the oatmeal and just eat the remaining one fourth while the oatmeal cooks. So I wanted a cooking and eating apple and that's what he recommended and I love it!
I haven't learned yet to look everything up on the Internet. It must have all the answers!
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Oh yes! My husband is half Japanese. We like to buy Fuji apples. My mother-in-law gave me my first Fuji apple. That is a wonderful memory for me since she is gone now. I like your blog because you make me think about simple things that I have forgotten long ago. My Italian grandmother would alway cut up raw vegetables and put a little olive oil, ground pepper and salt in a plate, and we would dip the vegetables in it for a snack.