Those who know me know that I’m sort of a produce geek: especially after recently winning second place in a produce identification contest at The New York Produce Show. My love of new or exotic fruits and vegetables paid off! We’re always looking to diversify our meals with new items or interesting preparations or just tweaking with new varieties of the recipes we grew up with. Discovering new products happens everywhere including Chinese supermarkets (Ling Jow, Tatsoi, Korean melons) or at the farmer’s markets (Sansa apples, Ground Husk Cherry Tomatoes, purple Kohlrabi). It’s especially fun when new and exciting ingredients show up at restaurants (crosnes at Le Cirque, lemon balm at Daniel).
So you can imagine the The New York Produce Show is like a super big candy store and I’m a big kid wandering through, seeing all the colors and shapes of produce one can imagine. I met great farmers and literally tasted the fruits of their labor. One of my favorites was Stemilt Growers who have cross bred three apples (Orange Pippin, Duchess of Oldenburg, and Golden Delicious) to create Piñata Apples. They are crisp and juicy, perfect for eating as is or paired with Fage yogurt, as I had this morning.
The best news is I get to share these new apples with one lucky reader. Stemilt Growers have agreed to ship one person a box of 12 Piñata Apples!
The Box of 12 Piñata Apples Give-Away: All you have to do is leave a comment here (and a way for me to contact you) by Friday, Jan 13 at 10:30am. One winner will be selected randomly. Sorry, shipping to the 48 contiguous United States only (but you can enter from elsewhere and give your prize to someone you know in the 48 states if you want).
You can have an additional entry by leaving a second comment letting me know that you have “liked” the Piñata Apple Fan Page. Honor system people!
Note: I was not compensated for this post. I actually asked them if they would do the give-away because I love sharing good stuff.
Contest Update: Comments 1 through 38 were counted and random.org spit out #15 (I’m trying to post screen shot but having technical difficulties….will update when tech support (Lon) comes home. Congrats Christine!!
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Those apples look beautiful. I would love to try them!
I love apples.
I liked the pinata apples’ facebook page!
what a fun name! I’m not a fan of Golden Delicious, but this sounds like a great combo! (crossing fingers)
Thanks for the lovely giveaway, Jessica. I love apples and these sound wonderful. I liked the facebook fan page 🙂
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Mmmmm apples. These sound great!
I “liked” the fan page…
Sounds great! I must have an apple everyday! 🙂
I always love to pick your brain. As a major apple lover (I eat at least two a day), I’d love to win!
Mmmm, yes please! 🙂
Ooh, plus! I just liked the piñata apple page 😛
Ooh another thing to look forward to try, besides Grapples! Where can I find a grapple anyhoo?
After liking the Pinata Page I want to try one even more ^_^
Love Stemlit – it’s a Wenatchee grower with orchards on rolling hillsides. Would love to try these and will be out looking for a Pinata.
This may be the first time I have heard of pinata apples, they sound delicious. The New York Produce show sounds like an exciting foodie event.
i would like to try these apples
Sounds interesting. I tried to find out where the name came from without success. According to Wikipedia they are also called pinova apples and the name, Piñata, Sonata, is trademarked. Who knew?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinova
I’d also like to try them.
These sound yummy!
I would love to try these.
I wants me dem apples.
Dem apples look good.
I wants me dem apples.
Dem apples look good.
If apples was money dem apples be hondos.
If apples was point guards dem apples be Rondo’s.
If apples be rappin’, dem apples DA ILLEST!!!
If apples be sitcoms, then WHAT YOU TALKING ‘BOUT WILLIS????
–I want me dem apples!
Oh yes, and further to the point, the act of “liking” said apples was undertaken.
Very pretty apples, I bet they taste pretty good too.
I’d love to try a new variety of apples. The honeycrisps that everyone seems to love aren’t my favorites. Thanks for the chance.
i love your random cut-off time! great giveaway. 🙂
Please enter me in the drawing. I also “liked” the facebook page for pinata apples.
Oops. I didn’t see that “liking” the facebook page had to be a second comment. Here it is.
I’m one of those people that actually does eat an apple a day. Sometimes two. It’s my favorite snack food.
I want to enter to win apples.
I would love to try the pinatas!!!
I would love to give these a try.
Apples are good!
And now I’ve ‘liked’ the FB page too…
Been earing apples with salad everyday, yum!
Oh, I have not heard of these apples before. They sound yummy!
Crispy and sweet? Count me in!
Those apples look beautiful! And super delicious, I would love to try them 🙂
Looks awesome!
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.
– “After Apple Picking” by Robert Frost
weird.. its only 10:40am now, but the last posting says 11:28am instead of 10:28am.
Hey Le, the poem thing was my gimmick!
i thought there was a 100 words requirement! 🙂
whoa, so who got the apples?
#15 Christine won….I added it to the post…sorry I should have also put a comment. We have more give-aways coming up so try again!
I have an apple every day…would love to try!
Sorry Renee, this contest is over but more will be coming very very soon!
Love these apples… They’re firm, crunchy & full of flavor.. bet they would make great homemade applesauce.. oooh and serve that with Pork…
I have looked everywhere for pinataapples. They look so good and can’t wait to try them. Please help
Barbara, this give-away is over but go over to their facebook page and ask them where you can purchase them.
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