{"id":16822,"date":"2014-10-05T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T03:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/?p=16822"},"modified":"2019-08-07T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:08:29","slug":"pineapple-honeycrisp-apple-salsa-for-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/pineapple-honeycrisp-apple-salsa-for-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple Honeycrisp Apple Salsa for Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fast, fresh and easy! Crisp, sweet Honeycrisp apple combines with punchy pineapple, a hint of heat, and crunchy pecans in a delightful and versatile salsa with an island twist. Amazingly versatile, this fruity salsa dresses up your breakfast yogurt parfait, is the perfect healthy pairing for chips at tailgate parties, puts spark into pork tacos for Taco Tuesday, and its delicious acidity pairs well with broiled wild salmon. Breakfast, lunch or dinner – we’ve got you covered!<\/p>\n

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Honeycrisp apples have been all the rage for the last couple of years. Me – I started seeing evidence of a marketing campaign last year, but never really sought them out – until one bite of the “forbidden” fruit at IFBC in Seattle <\/a>where Rainier Fruit Company<\/a> was offering tasty samples. As cliche as it sounds – it was love at first bite!<\/p>\n

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In almost 400 years of cultivating apples on these shores, Honeycrisp may be the first true name-brand domestic variety to hit the shelves demanding a price out of this segment of the market –  a designer apple, if you will.<\/p>\n

Even David Bedford, the man responsible for creating the Honeycrisp 20 years ago (via good old-fashioned cross breeding, not nefarious genetic splicing and dicing), is astonished by the apple\u2019s success. “I have absolutely never seen this price phenomenon with another apple,” says Bedford, a scientist at the University of Minnesota. “There are varieties that have garnered a 10 percent premium to standard pricing, and usually they have a promotional campaign behind them. They eventually fade out. Honeycrisp has never had a national marketing campaign \u2014 it’s truly a grassroots phenomenon. I’ve had to ask myself, \u2018Is this real?'”<\/p>\n

It is very real. Honeycrisps seem to inspire a devotion bordering on obsession from eaters who prize their sweet taste and distinct juiciness and snap. It’s what fruit folk call a great hand apple: phenomenal for biting into raw. This explosive crunchiness isn’t simply a product of better freshness or farming practices \u2014 it’s an actual genetic variation. Bedford says that studied under an electron microscope, Honeycrisp cells are twice the size of those of other apples, which accounts for their unique, pleasing texture. {Source: Eat Like A Man<\/a>}<\/p>\n