No need for scientists to intervene here and produce a pill. Nature and humankind have already done the legwork for us.
Ingredients –
1 apple
I chunk of cheese
Equipment –
A knife
Optional extras – a plate, a seat and a table.
Nice to haves –
A quietness to the day, sitting outside with some warmth, no rain or at least shelter from the rain and lastly I would have time to “take my time”.
Optional extras – good company
Preparation –
Slice and core the apple, slice off a piece of cheese
Technique –
Your choice or preference –
A bite of the apple, followed by a bite of cheese
A bite of cheese followed by a bite of apple
All together with the cheese and apple slices in one bite
The Challenge –
To combine the sharp and dry tanginess of cheese with a crisp juicy apple.
Taste the apple, really taste it. Be leisurely. Take your time, eat it slowly. Piece by crunchy piece. Savour the cheese – a sharp tangy cheese like a really good Cheddar or some aged Comté, Gouda or Gruyere, your choice. Take your flavoursome time.
For the writers and wits amongst you, you may enjoy this article I found titled what does an apple taste like?
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Claire …. WooOOOOOow! What a fantastic post. Just brilliant … and I eat any fruit with cheese, except grapes. I love a good cheese and fresh apricots.
🙂 I had fun putting the post together Vivi 🙂 Thank you x
It’s apple picking time in these parts, cheese is a staple in this house and the sun still shines warmly in the porch so there’s no problem following your advice.
Lovely that you can sit on your porch and feel the suns warmth
Mmmm, sounds good! Love the presentation! This will be lunch one day next week with some tasty cheese from the market!
I don’t know much about German cheese, now you’ve got my curiosity going there Cathy!
Well, Swiss Emmental is very popular, and then we get Bavarian smoked, mountain cheese (Bergkäse) and all the Swiss and Austrian variations! I’ll perhaps have a pretzel with my apple and Emmental! 😀
Well said Claire!
Thanks Glenda
How perfectly timed this is (and would be, of course, at any time, being a reminder to Pay Attention and enjoy life’s beauties!)–I am sitting in the nave of a big church in Dallas, orchestra tuning merrily and singers getting in place for an all-morning dress rehearsal, which Richard and I will follow quickly with a dash back up the freeway to the university for the afternoon dress rehearsal of a different concert–so I have brought along a little ‘car picnic’ lunch of apples, sliced sharp cheddar and roasted almonds. 😀 Great minds, and all that!
xoxo
Kathryn
We have car picnics too! and Kathryn, you just took my simple meal to another level by adding roasted almonds – perfect x
Isn’t this the sort of recipe we’re all craving Claire? So hungry we are for this simplicity. This “being here”. This quiet, or this sweet simple conversation. Aren’t we longing to truly taste our life? Honestly Claire, I want to pin your “recipe” to my fridge (or to my forehead) – its just my favorite kind of eating. But sometimes I forget.
Thank you my good (wise) friend!
Don’t pin it to your forehead it will leave a pinhole mark and will hurt!
Seriously tho, I do think about being here in the moment, and yes we need to remind ourselves of it don’t we. Hope you have a super week x
Funny, I had a Lunch Text from Hubby (who is in Paris) telling me he was having apples and cheese for dessert 🙂
In Paris AGAIN ?! Where’s our invite that’s what to want to know 🙂
Yep…and he’ll be going back in December to check on some work we’re having done…he’s on the way home right now 🙂
Wishing him a safe and speedy journey x
A perfect meal!
Simple and delicious. The description encapsulates the essence of what ever good meal should be.
A refreshing and flavorful “recipe” for a great meal. There is a beauty in simplicity and savoring each and every bite.
Bite the apple, then the cheese. A smoked Gouda or a sharp cheddar, please. I’ll take mine outside, so as to enjoy the lovely slanted sunshine and the brilliant blue sky this time of year offers us! Delightful, Claire!
Gouda is delicious isn’t it Lynda, my favourite (when I can find it) is aged and with cumin seeds – beautiful warm flavours.
I like the picture. It tells everything.
Thank you Shimon for your compliments
Brilliant – sometimes simplicity is all that’s needed, in food, in writing and in life!
It helps with those days when my head doesn’t work very well and needs simple occupation and food 🙂
An apple tastes like dappled leaves, soft rain soaked earth, a kiss of sun-sweet honey, and a spring white blossom.. all at once, with that tangy cheese and your friend. Wish I could be there! xx
my challenge is to finish the apple and cheese TOGETHER, with no “extra piece” of either. 🙂
Sounds like the perfect meal to me!
Oh this used to be one of my favourite summer time lunches after school. My mom would slice the apples for me and the cheese and as an added extra, put a sprinkling of salt on the apple – oh that made all the difference. I used to enjoy taking a bite of the apple and cheese together. I still enjoy it every now and again.
Have a beautiful week ahead Claire.
🙂 Mandy xo
I’ve been eating the apples daily, I’m going to add the cheese now! 🙂
Love this recipe!!!
Add some crusty bread and a pot of black tea and you’ve got our favorite autumn lunch around here.
Wonderful post, Claire. We didn’t have dessert often when I was a boy. We did have fruit and cheese, though, and this time of year, it was always apples. Though we kids didn’t care much for the cheeses, Dad made sure we got plenty of apple slices. 🙂
The perfect bite! Cheese and apple together, I think! I have some wonderful apples at the moment, and you’ve just elevated my interest in savoring each bite. I am craving some manchego cheese, but I think any quality cheese will do! THis was lovely, Claire.
Strangely enough I have never tried apple and cheese together 🙂
Two of my favorite things!
Love it! Coincidentally, the lunch I brought for today is a topaz apple with sharp Wisconsin cheddar. I can’t wait!
Fabulous, fabulous post – I’m an “all in one mouthful” kind of gal myself! What cheese was that – looks so good 🙂
My mother always ate apple with cheese, and i knew a dera old lady in Bristol (UK) who ate pear with blue cheese, suffice to say I will take both anytime.. gorgeous post.. c
Love it 🙂
This post was so delightful, it inspired me to go out to the kitchen, cut up an apple, sprinkle it with Bleu Cheese crumbles, and come back to savor both!