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EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: The Honeycrisp apple
posted by Drew Lazor
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| Photo | Drew Lazor |
Quite a few people have been raving about Honeycrisp apples lately, as the ultra-short season (they’re typically harvested in the last week of September) is upon us. If you’ve never had a Honeycrisp before, holy crap they’re the best apple of all time! Developed in the ’60s by University of Minnesota researchers who cross-pollinated the Macoun and Honeygold apple varieties and first released commercially in the early ’90s, these things are nearly a meal in and of themselves. The refreshing snap of the skin and flesh is unparalleled (sorry McIntosh, you suck!), and they’re the perfect balance of tart and sweet in the taste department. They’re also super pretty and look like apples from cartoons.
Got this one from Maxx’s Produce (225 S. 20th St.) yesterday. Where else in the city might we cop some delicious Honeycrisps before they’re all gone, Meal Ticketers?
Eat them immediately.
seriously, greensgrow farms has them at the thursday and saturday market. so worth the trip to kenzo for how tasty and fresh they are!
Beechwood Orchards at the farmer’s markets on Tuesday on South at Passyunk and on Sun at Headhouse Square has them (he was also at Rittenhouse on Saturdays last year, but I haven’t been to that one this year). And they are indeed the best.
if you act fast and hustle your rump to the farmers’ market at 36th and walnut they have them…
Honeycrisp apples are the best apples in the whole world!!!!!
I got a pair of honeycrisps as big as my FACE at Linvilla Orchard this Sunday. One eaten with a nice thick hunk of extra sharp cheddar cheese is the perfect meal.
Sue’s Produce on 18th Street typically has honeycrisp apples as well. It is truly an amazing apple!
they have ‘em at linvilla orchards, and they’re huge, it took me two days to eat one
Polianarchy:
The honeycrisp cheddar combo is exactly what I’m eating as my lunch right this second!
weird, i had a honeycrisp/cheddar lunch today as well … and i get my HCs at headhouse on sundays — at least two vendors sell them weekly.
Marini’s Produce on Veale Road in Wilmington DE (across from St. Edmunds Academy) has had them and they are by far the BEST apple! Get them while you can!!!
Also available at Fair Food Farmstand in Reading Terminal.
Wegman’s in Cherry Hill has them a lot! They are amazing, although I don’t know how anyone is full from an apple and piece of cheese for lunch!
i got some at the lansdowne farmers market a couple weeks ago but don’t know if they still have them. the varieties change alot. but oh they are good…had a sample and had to buy a bunch.
When the Honeycrisp apples are gone, you can eat honeycrisp applesauce all year long. The applesauce is really delicious, thick and chunky, like homemade and no added sugars or sweeteners, tastes like the delicious HC apple!
You can order and have jars shipped to you from the apple grower’s website:
http://www.HighJOrchards.com