What a find...an apple orchard in Eindhoven where you can gather your own apples, the kids can play in the orchard and a very handy pancake house right there. It had been arranged as a group outing, but the weather was looking awful...dark, grey and rainy. As the sky started clearing, we started throwing stuff and kids in the car...all systems GO! Alas, as we turned the first corner, the heavens opened once again and it poured down the whole way. It is Phillips Fruittuin and about a half an hour from Tilburg. Thinking I was the only loony who would be in the orchard, I was surprised to see multitudes of people arriving and walking in the rain to the entrance...hoorah for the dutch fortitude. Well, we found some friends who had also ventured out and the kids had so much fun ...they did not want to stop picking fruit and we ended up with about a ton of apples and pears. Moms and dads proceeded to sit and drink hot chocolate whilst the kids played together for absolute ages..by now the rain had cleared and the day was balmy. Not bad, not bad at all for an afternoon outing.
Now the question is what to do with all these appleas and pears. I have so far only got around to trying my hand at drying apples. Firstly, take a look at some of our bounty.
Tiger dipping the apple rounds in a mixture of lemon juice, orange juice and water to stop them turning brown.
And wow what a sophisticated system...on a stick on a clothes rack. Sorry! I have a husband who seems to have a pathological hatred of putting hooks anywhere...it's very distressing.
We will see how these turn out. Apparently they need to be in a warm sunny place, which my kitchen certainly is.
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