food notes: bread, apples

[redbird]

adrian_turtle and I went to the Harvard Square Farmers' Market on Friday. We got apples, ravioli, bread, and tomatoes.

The bread was the durum wheat country loaf from Hi-Rise Bakery, which exactly lived up to my expectations of being similar to the durum wheat semolina bread I used to get from a bakery in New York (before they decided there was more money in donuts, danishes, and sandwiches than in loaves of bread): a good crust on a rich-tasting, slightly yellow loaf.

The apples were a lot of macouns (since I'd liked the macoun I ate a day or two earlier and figured it was a good year for them) and the vendor's last two Esopus Spitzenberg (a variety about which I have rhapsodized before). I ate the smaller of the two this morning, and concluded that it should have been picked about now for greater flavor; the larger is going home with me, so I can share it with Cattitude.

We're not moving to Boston for the apples, but proper, flavorful apples are one of the things I miss about living in the Northeast.