Today was the first really refreshingingly cool day we have seen here in Florida in quite a few months! Yesterday was a foretaste of today...but this morning had me singing! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE cool fall mornings! My northern friends may scoff when I say that we enjoyed a crisp, chilly morning temperature of 53 degrees upon our arising from our beds to start the day! That is almost unheard of this early in the fall in this part of Florida, so it is something to celebrate! You can sense the change in the air...a promise of good things to come...a new surge of energy and vigor that the hot, sultry days of summer had drained away. Yes, I am definitely a "fall" person...can you tell?
One of my family's favorite fall breakfasts is homemade biscuits and applesauce. This was definitely a biscuit and applesauce morning! There is no better smell in the morning than the sweet spicy aroma of apples cooking sprinkled with cinammon...try staying in bed when that tantalizing fragrance reaches your nostrils! It just can't be done! (Unless you're my son Scott, who could sleep through anything..., which he did...but he's the only one who really doesn't care about homemade applesauce for breakfast, poor kid)
If you have never made your own applesauce before, now is a good time to start! I use any kind of good baking/eating apple (except for Red Delicious)...McIntosh, Winesap, Cortland, Jonathans, Empires, or Gala...will make a delicious applesauce. I quarter, core and peel about 6-8 apples, put them in a microwaveable dish, add about 1/3 cup water, and sprinkle with cinammon. Cover, and cook on high in the microwave for about 6 minutes, or until apples are tender. Then mash the apples with a potato masher, and add about 1/3 to 1/2 cup sugar (or to your particular taste) depending upon how tart the apples were.
This was such a great way to start the day! Did I mention that I LOVE the smell of homemade applesauce cooking? Who needs artificial scented candles and air-fresheners when you can have the real thing?
So tell me, what are some of YOUR favorite fall traditions? I hope to share more of mine with you as the days go by and I become so inspired!!
By the way, here's a few interesting verses of scripture regarding "apples"...
"Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down in his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am lovesick."
Song of Solomon 2:3-5
"Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye." Proverbs 7:2
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settngs of silver." Proverbs 25:11
"He found him in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye." Deuteronomy 32:10
Can you find any others?
Have a blessed biscuits and applesauce kind of day!
My dad started the tradtion of Chili on the first cold night of Fall. I have tried to continue this traditon....it needs to get just a little cooler for our first batch! I too love the Fall, it is my favorite time of year!
ReplyDeleteYes, chili would be another of our fall traditions...I love homemade chili...as long as it isn't too spicy. But I make a simple version during the summer and use that for a taco/chili salad. It's yummy too, and really quick and easy to make! Thanks, Debbie, for your comment and for reading your old auntie's blog! Love ya!
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