Apple butter is scrumptious

People, this is darn good. Wow! Isn't the color amazing? To think these were Galas and one Ginger Gold apple to begin. I really do think I'm going to the apple butter-apple tart I mentioned earlier. What if I grated some cheddar into the crust dough? Might that be a lovely, crusty foil to the appley interior? I will let you know!

Invention?

Don't y'all think it would be fabulous to have a chaise lounge that you could move up and down like a dentist's chair so that when you are cooking something that requires hours and occasional stirring, you could relax on your chaise, read, stir and assess what's cooking without moving much at all? I also think it'd be great for pedicure chairs to have hinged face covers so that if you wanted to close your eyes and put your head back, you could swing the cover shut so that you could veg out unabashedly and without fear of anyone seeing you make some unfortunate sleep face or drool or the like.

Apple butter looks pretty fabulous

After cooking this down and then picking out, by hand, all the strips of peel that remained from the 3+ pounds of apples in the puree, I can see why food mills were invented and are beloved. Nonetheless, I do like to do all steps of whatever it is I'm learning before figuring out how to cut some corners. So, if this apple butter turns out to be as delicious as I'm thinking, I might just invest in a food mill. In this is the apple puree plus some sugar, cinnamon, ground allspice and ground cloves. Now you simmer for hours until it turns a rich, caramel'y brown. There was an option to immersion blender this yumminess but I like texture in my food so I decided to leave it as it was after an aggressive turn through my sieve by force of a wooden spoon.