-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Made it yesterday for my friend Les' wife, Sara. Les is in expensive
 DD> care after his heart stopped. And poor Sara has been run ragged
 DD> getting the house ready for home hospice. And with High Holy Days at
 DD> her temple. Since there was nothing un-Kosher in it ... there were no
 DD> leftovers.

 RH> Doesn't sound good, do they do that community service award
 RH> posthumously?

 DD> I really hope so. I spent Monday afternoon sitting with him so Sara
 DD> could attend to other necessities of life, It reminded me of when my
 DD> mother had a stroke. The body was there but the person wasn't. The
 DD> spirit had fled to whatever comes next. It was sad and it bothered me.
 DD> I warned Howard (our friend) what to expect when he came to sit with 
Les.

 RH> My grandmother had a series of strokes--wasn't bad for the first few
 RH> but the last few did her in. I saw her about a month before she passed
 RH> away; by then she was pretty well out of it. She knew we were family
 RH> but not really how we were related. By then I had a ring from Steve--my
 RH> dad tried to have me show it to my grandmother but she didn't really
 RH> comprehend what it was. My mom had told me that I had to come home for
 RH> Thanksgiving if my grandmother was still living but she passed away in
 RH> September and I spent my first of many Thanksgivings in NC, with Steve.

Mom never regained consciousness after she went down. I remarked to my
brother that she was essentially "done" when my father died. And he then
reminded me that she passed on the 3rd anniversary of his death.

 DD> He texted me later "Having just sat through out long services on the
 DD> Day of Atonment it occurs to me that Les has little to atone for."

 DD> Sad.

 DD> I used Northern Spy for the apples as that was what was available at
 DD> the Apple Barn when I picked up the cider. No Granny Smith to be had.

 RH> I'd consider honeycrisp, one of my favorites for both cooking and
 RH> eating.

 DD> I used the Northern Spy because they are tart like the Granny Smith. I
 DD> have both honeycrisp and cosmic crisp (a near cousin) available to me
 DD> and use them in my chicken salad as well as elsewhere - like for just
 DD> eating.  Bv)=

 RH> Another favorite of ours is Empire==found then first up in MA when we
 RH> came home from Germany in 1992. Wegman's has them from time to time so
 RH> Steve usually grabs a bag or 2.

I can't recall ever having eaten an Empire. But, there are lots of cultivars
of apple out there. Did you know that the apples produced from the trees
spread by the mythic "Johhny Appleseed" (John Chapman) were not meant for
eating or cooking but for making cider - especially hard cider. That's
according to an article I read in the Smithsonian magazine.

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      Title: Aaron McCargo's Autumn Apple Cider Vinaigrette
 Categories: Dressings, Fruit, Chilies
      Yield: 20 Servings
 
      2 oz Cider vinegar
      2 oz Apple juice
  1 1/2 oz Brown sugar
  1 1/2 ts Cracked black pepper
    3/4 ts Cayenne
    3/4 ts Ground cinnamon
  1 1/2 ts Salt
      1 c  Oil
 
  In a standing mixer, using a whisk attachment, mix in
  cider vinegar, apple juice, brown sugar, cracked black
  pepper, cayenne, cinnamon and salt. Blend on medium speed
  until all ingredients are incorporated. Continue mixing
  on low speed and add oil slowly until emulsification
  starts. Change speed to medium and add remaining oil.
  
  Recipe By: Aaron McCargo
  
  Yield: 20 servings
  
  FROM: Terry Pogue; Chile-heads Mailing List
  
  Meal Master Format by Dave Drum - 22 June 2008
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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