Apples, Apples Everywhere!

Oh Fall, you bring so many wonderful things, and that includes an abundance of apples!

Last Sunday my mother-in-law sent me home with 3 dozen apples. She had a huge box full from a friend and she shared some with me. She wanted me to take more but I figured 3 dozen would do it for us.

I wanted to try making homemade apple sauce sweetened with maple syrup! And I found a recipe that did just that. This one Here! Of course though I didn’t fully follow the recipe.

I didn’t use the kind of apples it called for. And honestly I don’t even know what kind I did use. I also blended the apples before cooking them instead of mashing them at the end.

It made for a very smooth apple sauce! At least my second pot was, the first pot was a little chunky because I hadn’t quite got down the blending technic. But by the second round it was perfect!

I also used a little less maple syrup then it called for and I skipped the cinnamon, because personally I like my apple sauce without it. Which I have heard makes me crazy. Haha but hey what do you do? I was very pleased with how it turned out. I got to freeze 5 cups of it for future baking use. And we have had a couple jars in the fridge that we have been enjoying.

What about you? Do you make home made apple sauce? With or with out cinnamon? And what is an excellent dessert to make with apple sauce? Let me know! I have never done it before but am looking forward to trying it out!

   

The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:9

(Part Two) What We Made

Last time I posted I told you about the groceries we bought. Which you can read about HereThis time I’ll show you what we made!

I am a lover of cereal! But since switching to real food its all oatmeal and granola. Oatmeal is a bit easier so we eat a lot of it! Adding more seeds this week made it even better!

   
Oats, almonds, flax, chia, and pumpkin seeds. Then blueberries and whole milk! Fantastically delichious!

 
Green smoothie! – Spinach, Whole Milk, Avocado, Chia and Flax seeds, froxen banana, and frozen blueberries!

 

I had a prep day and bagged strawberries and blueberries to freeze.  As well as prepped berries and celery for snacking on. And sliced up red onion, tomatoes, and bell peppers for sandwiches.
  
One of my very favorite foods lately! A toasted piece of homemade whole wheat bread. Buttered, topped with sliced almonds, cheese, tomato, red onion, bell pepper, and spinach! It is so good! But pretty messy to eat!

 
Sautéed mushrooms, spinach, and red onion in a cream sauce over whole wheat pasta! An invention of my own that turned out wonderfully!

 

Fruit bowls! Simple and tasty!

   

Sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, and a fresh salad with homemade dressing! The salad and corn were great! But I hated the sweet potatoes or yams or whatever you want to call them! Maybe I made them wrong but they were not good.

 

And lastly banana pancakes with a homemade berry syrup! And fried potatoes!

Of course we ate more then this but this was some of it. Tonight we are having lentils and rice and then back to the store to buy this weeks groceries! Its been a very tasty week!

Also our farmers market opened today so I got to go down and pick up some of our veggies and fruit! Locally grown beauty!

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13