Local Saturday - A Taste of Apple and Honey

It's time to bake my annual apple honey cake, courtesy of Tori Avey.

Tomorrow at sundown begin the Jewish New Year observances (further explained in Tori Avey's blog post I've linked to above, and here).  There are traditional foods we eat, include apples and honey.  The honey symbolizes the sweetness of the New Year.

The apple symbolizes the Garden of Eden and also our love for the Creator.

Today, I celebrate apples.  I'm fortunate enough to live in an apple growing area.

Until you taste apples side by side, you don't realize how they differ in texture, sweetness, mouthfeel, crispyness and more.  There are apples for eating, apples for cooking, and all purpose apples.  Some apples have great storage qualities.

For my apple cake, I selected Pippins and Zestar.   And then, fate intervened - someone, apparently, tried to hack into my email account, and I had to change my password on all my devices.  That, and other shopping I did today, also left me a bit behind on what I needed to do today.

For the honey, it will be local buckwheat honey from a couple of hours away.  It's a dark honey and full of flavor.

So instead of tonight, I'll be making it tomorrow (with some minor changes from Tori Avey's recipe, including not adding the glaze topping, as I don't like those kinds of toppings.)

And, as far as the self reflection required as part of this time of year, I will be joining in on the Ultimate Blog Challenge on Tuesday.  I have decisions about where my life will go in the coming year, and how I can best serve humanity and our planet Earth.

But first, some apple cake is in order.