Topic: Composting Apples

[Hot_Potato]

Just before everyone either wraps and stores their apples or composts them.....here's an alternative way of using them only in a savoury dish.

Not sure what it's called but it's a main course - seem to think I found it on the following site:

www.recipezaar.com - which seems to be primarily for fruit recipes.

for 2 people you need:-
2 Pork chops trimmed of excess fat
1 tablespoon of mango chutney
1 granny smith apple (possibly more) peeled, cored & thinly sliced
2 oz. seriously strong cheese - grated

Heat grill to high
grill chops for 4 minutes on both sides
spread one side of chop with chutney, top with sliced apples &
           grill for further 2 minutes
sprinkle with cheese & return to grill for further 4/5 minutes or
           until cheese has melted & is golden brown & bubbly
serve with salad & new potatoes

This is just scrummy  :P - have done it but it doesn't use many apples  :(

[dave]

Don't forget to leave some windfalls out for/ chuck out some stored fruit later for the birds

Blacbirds especially love them

Dave

[john_miller]

After working at an orchard that pressed apples for juice/cider over here, and having to remove the pulp promptly due to the attentions of wasps (yellowjackets), is having rotting apples lying around not a concern in the U.K.?

[simhop]

Can't say I saw a Yellowjacket in the UK or here in Sweden.  As far as I am concerned the harvesting of apples coincides here with the start of the cold spell so practically all wasps are dead now anyway. though I do have a few more flies round the compost bin now. It's far enough away from the house so no problem.

[dave]

Not many wasps about anyway the last year or two in this bit of the uk (Cheshire) anyway.  
We do have extra mosquitoes this time around, it seems to me, or maybe my flavour is improving with age

dave

[Mrs Ava]

Bl**dy wasps everywhere on my plot in drizzly Essex at the moment, and picking apples up from the ground is a dangerous job!  I was stung on my back a month or so back whilst under the apple tree.  The wasps adore my compost heap now it is filling up with rotting apples and other green kitchen waste!