Connecting Some Food Dots

So if this blog is to be dedicated – at least in the beginning – to foody stuff, then once in awhile, when I find a cute set of photos of kid happenings, some food dots will have to be connected to make sense out of it.  To say that the picture above is all about M&M caramel apples might seem like a stretch without a bit of backstory: the week before Halloween I decided it was time to try our own batch of caramel apples at home, an easy enough task – melt some of those 16 oz containers of caramel in a small sauce pan, push the stick through the core of the Granny Smiths, dip, place on a plastic sheet, sprinkle on some fine crumbs of graham cracker just for fun, cool, and voila, bright little sweet but healthy treats.

Good enough.  But then it dawns on you that you would like to be able to see if your apple marvels are close in quality to how some old reliable pros do them.  Despite the summer draught, it is apple harvest season, so why not check out Ferguson's Apple Orchard 

and test one of their creations which we know was likely recently plucked from the orchard vine?  When we got there, on a bright late October early afternoon, the display case was full of all kinds of combinations, including M-e-M's caramel apples, and what had been two fighting sibling faces quickly turned to smiles and a newfound spirit of adventure, like thirty-seven trips through the haunted house (picture at top), corn maze cruising, 

queen of the hay mound (Carly ran the joint), and some quality kid / farm animal conversation.

  

In the end, whose caramel apple 'reigned supreme'?  Because I'm making up the criteria for evaluation as I write this, I'll just have to say that even though the homemade versions didn't come with farm entertainment, they also didn't cause any of the tummy aches mentioned after a few too many M-e-M's.