Enjoy peak apple season with a vegan apple berry crisp that will keep you warm and satisfied.

The weather has changed and it’s definitely feeling more like fall where I live in Northern California. It’s at this time of year that my eating seems to shift, too. Not willingly I give up eating stone fruit because it’s not around to purchase. It’s now what I call Apple-Pear season and these fruits are in abundance.

I love the first apples of the season. It seems like a magical fruit with so many varieties available and they love to show you their differences.

Truth is that pears are not all the same either. If you can get your hands on a Warren or Comice, do it. (And remember that pears ripen from the inside out so that when you think that they are ripe, they are often overripe. Pears are a fruit that requires your attention. Apples do not.)

I wonder why we don’t pay more attention to the varieties of other produce and then I remember. In the supermarket, generally, a peach is a peach. It’s not an Elberta or an O’Henry. It’s a generic peach from California that ships well.

Apples defy this gentle handling. They are sturdy and generally firm unless they are one like the Gravenstein which grows in my area but doesn’t ship or store well. Apples will last a long time, even quite a while without refrigeration, which I am now proving on my countertop with freshly harvested apples.

My apple tree is a Granny Smith. It came with the house and it’s not my favorite apple so generally, I give them away. They aren’t usually ripe until November and then lucky recipients say that they make the best pie. Having never been given a slice, I cannot say. However, there are many other apple choices for pie, crisp and crumble.

Here I share my recipe for Apple Crisp or Not So Crisp from Vegan Under Pressure. You can choose your favorite apple to use. With my new Mealthy CrispLid, I know that I can get the top of the crisp crispy if I choose to do so.

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