Apple Pork

Every fall we go apple picking. Living in New England, it’s a must. There are countless orchards in Massachusetts! I prefer the smaller orchards, as opposed to the large ones geared towards families that have a farm as well. Which, I’m not against, I have kids after all! However, they get packed, little kids are running around everywhere, it’s chaotic. It just isn’t fun for parents. To be honest, kids are generally happy anywhere they can just run around in fresh air.

We skip apple picking at the larger, chaotic places and opt to do that fall activity at just a simple orchard. Plus side, the simple orchards are BEAUTIFUL! Now because we are suckers, like most parents, we do end up making a trip or two to the chaotic farms as well, ha!

There are a couple orchards locally that also make their own apple cider at the actual orchard. If you want really great tasting apple cider, get it from the orchard if you can. Or at least check the label to see where it came from. Luckily for us, many of the local stores here sell the cider from the local orchards we go to for apple picking.

But, what do you do when you have all of these apples from apple picking? One of my favorite things to make is roast pork with apples. Pork and apples is like bread and butter. They just go together perfectly.