Apples can be part of every meal, sauted for
pancake topping or cubed to highlight
a chicken salad.
According to apple folklore, an Englishman coined the saying "Ate an apfel avore gwain to bed. Makes the doctor beg his bread." How about them apples?
If that's too difficult to recall, the modern version goes "an apple a day, yada yada yada."
Apples are a healthy food. They are a good source of fiber and fight cholesterol. If you don't have time to brush your teeth, eat an apple. It will cleanse your mouth of the bacteria that cause tooth decay.
Gala apples, a crisp and juicy version, are a good buy this week in island markets. At Foodland, they are 78 cents a pound with card; 77 cents at Sack N Save; 78 at Daiei; 69 cents with card at Safeway; and $1.19 at Times. Star is featuring Fuji apples at 99 cents a pound.
Apples can be part of every meal. For breakfast, saute them or add them to your pancakes. For lunch, try a crunchy Waldorf or chicken salad. For dinner, make a salsa with chopped apple, minced green onions and dried rosemary drizzled with lime juice and serve with kalua turkey or pork burritos. And, of course, for dessert, there are pie, cake, pandowdy, crisp, brown betty, fritters, turnovers, strudel, yada yada yada.
Apple, Chicken and Blue Cheese Salad
3 crisp apples, cored and cubedToss together apples, chicken, grapes and pecans with dressing. Arrange greens on four plates; spoon salad over greens. Makes 4 servings.
3 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cooked and cubed
1 cup seedless red grapes
1/3 cup coarsely chopped toasted pecans
Blue cheese dressing (recipe follows)
5 cups mixed salad greens
Blue Cheese Dressing
1/3 cup light mayonnaiseWhisk ingredients until well combined.
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
1-1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
Approximate nutritional analysis per serving: 386 calories, 17.4 g total fat, 69.6 mg cholesterol, 454 mg sodium.*
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