We’ve picked a bushel of North Carolina apples in every form — from pies to pottery to cider — to enjoy from the first perfect, blue-sky day of October through chilly Halloween. That’s one for each day of the month!
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Roasted Butternut Squash & Apple Soup
Butternut squash and bright, crisp apples: a sweater-weather classic.
Our State Knows Best: Apples
Find out what three experts have to say about picking the perfect apple, baking the most delicious pie, and searching for the hard-to-find heirloom varieties of our state’s favorite fall fruit — plus the one apple they’d eat for the rest of their lives.
Watch: How to Make Caramel Apples with Salted Peanuts
These sweet and salty caramel apples are festive and delicious.
Big Horse Creek Farm in Lansing
High in Ashe County, Ron and Suzanne Joyner are bringing back hundreds of varieties of forgotten fruit.
North Carolina Sweet Potato Latkes with Cinnamon Honeycrisp Applesauce
Our favorite Hanukkah dish gets a North Carolina twist. Go the extra mile by preparing homemade applesauce to go alongside your latkes.
Fried Apple Pies
We just can’t help saying: These portable hand pies are the apple of our eye.
Appalachian Apple Stack Cake
For generations, families and communities have come together around this traditional Mountain dessert.
Apples, Taters, and Chops Casserole
After experimenting with food, Bob Holt created the recipe for the Apples, Taters, and Chops Casserole that can be found in his cookbook Country Recipes and Other Interesting Stuff.
