I had been looking forward to this weekend for a while. I was invited to a cooking day with Emily and a former student of mine whose parents own a grape orchard. We made lunch first. Ceasar salad, chicken, apple and cheese paninis and coconut corn soup.
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| Emily, Miho (my former student), Yuri Yura (also a former student) and Sera. |
And then off to the grape orchard ? vineyard? If you know which is correct please tell me.
They grow table grapes not wine grapes.
When the grapes are young all but 40 small grapes are taken off the bunch and
then they are wrapped in these paper bags.
They are not planted in rows like those in California and the branches are really long. Even I had to stoop down to walk through here. In the middle is a little stream of sorts and I guess that water is distributed to the vines somehow. They grow 5 varieties of very big, very very sweet grapes.
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| There were also two blueberry bushes so we went home with bags of blueberries as well as grapes! |
We finished the day off with this dessert that Emily said is very popular in Ohio. It has a pretzel crust (strange right!?) that's made like a graham cracker crust. Then a layer of whipped cream and cream cheese and then jello with fruit. Seems like a very mid-western thing to me.
This is the view from Miho's house. Nice.
It's in an area of new homes.
Miho's house.
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