The apples are sort of like our garden this year - a bit disappointing. A lot of them are small, sour, and buggy.
None of that matters to Wayne, though. He loves apple time. We picked a bunch this morning and Wayne said at least 4 times, "This is fun. I love climbing trees and picking apples."
I know climbing trees is a great thing for kids to do, but it still made me a little nervous.
Not to be out done by a brother, Heather climbed up a little too. No dancing costume ($1.25 from "the barn") was going to slow her down!
Cole found a perfect apple.
Spike ate an apple too, but I think he was really wishing it was a steak.
We picked a 5 gal. bucketful.
Wayne immediately took them in the house, cleaned them up, and got to work making applesauce.
Joanie gave us this apple peeler a couple of years ago. It works great. It peels, slices and cores the apple.
That's the apple.
That's the peel.
And that's a snack for the chickens.
Into the pot with some cinnamon and a little sugar.
Wayne likes to puree his homemade applesauce so it's nice and smooth.
Ta Da!
Changing the subject, the kids had a good first week at school. Wayne loves being a middle schooler. He says changing classes makes the day go by much faster. Heather loves first grade. She can't wait to have her first spelling test. Cole was relieved to find that there was not a test on the first day of school so it didn't matter that he hadn't studied his multiplication tables. (actually he knows almost all of them anyway, just needed to refresh his memory)
Oh gosh, Darlene! I just loved this blog! You are such a great writer. I have been giggling out loud!
ReplyDeleteThat applesauce looks just great! I am impressed with Wayne's cooking skills!
So glad that the kids had a good first week of school!
Wayne should be in one of Vt's junior iron chef contest!! I love that he loves to cook and bake, and especially harvest! We also have many small, buggy apples on our trees! Happy to hear that all your kids like school, and that Cole didn't have a quiz on Day #1. A big no no for teachers! I will have to stop by at "the barn" to check out her clothing!
ReplyDeleteThat applesauce looks so yummy--great job W, H & C!!
ReplyDeleteWe have the same peeler/corer/slicer and love it. Works like a charm! I've been dreaming of applesauce too - last year I made it in a crockpot. We just bought a vegetable grinder attachment thing for our KitchenAid that should make cooking up applesauce super easy this year. What kind of apples do you have? We were thinking we'd have to go to Canada to get some good ones...
ReplyDeleteYum Yum!! What a great chef you have on your hands! Perhaps when he gets to high school he'll want to take a course in cooking at the tech. ctr.
ReplyDeleteHappy back-to-school!