Andrew's ingredient of the month: Awesome apples

Apple recipes

Best apple recipes

Of the many apple recipes I've developed over the years, I get the most enthusiastic response from Apple Pie with Chocolate Hazelnut Crisp. It's an apple pie with a delicious and decadent topping.

My personal pie favourite is Apple Pie with Currants and Almonds. It's a wonderful plain apple pie with a little extra flavouring.

If you have a garden, you might have lots of green tomatoes this time of year. Try making the unusual Apple and Green Tomato Hand Pies.

Apple and Pecan Coffee Cake is a yeast-risen coffee cake that's rich in flavour. It reminds me of some of the coffee cakes my mother used to buy at local Jewish bakeries when I was a child.

For a bit of French flair, another yeast-risen cake is my Apple Baba Babka au Rhum. It can't be beat; it's a real original and the name is almost as fun to say as the dessert is delicious!

An apple cake that is not too sweet, really apple-y and even a bit good-for-you is hard to find. But the Austrian Apple Spelt Cake fits the bill.

A slightly sweeter, wonderful apple cake, Apple and Almond Cake has an unusual method of holding together an apple and ground almond concoction with just a little cake batter. It's fantastic and a cinch to put together.

Birchermüesli is certainly a healthy start for the morning. My late Swiss aunt, Tante Selm, had a five-hundred-year-old house with a great cold cellar and used to store cases and cases of apples; she also made the world's best birchermüesli, which she served for dessert as often as she did for breakfast.

Apples are also good for savoury cooking. For a seasonal soup, try Apple and Jerusalem Artichoke Soup, combining two of October's local products at their best. And pork chops get a grand and warming cool weather treatment with Sauerkraut-Stuffed Pork Chops with Fried Apples.

And try some of our best apple sauce recipes, too!

Apple recipes

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