do not adjust the color on your monitors...

...the applesauce is really that pink! Mom B came up for a few days this week bringing 3 bushels of beacon apples that S and I purchased from their church's youth group, and willing hands to help make it into applesauce. We didn't get started Tuesday night like we wanted to so we weren't sure if we were going to get everything processed, but Auntie C and the girls also came over on Wednesday to help and between all of us we had the 3 bushels made into applesauce by 4:30! Yay! So here's what we did:

Wash apples (dry off kids)
Cut and core and put on stove to cook
The lovely pinkness that results from leaving the skins on!
Feed cooked and smushy apples into magic attachments on Kitchen Aid mixer (thanks Auntie C for helping and letting us borrow them!)
All kids take turns smushing the apples through (then clean up kids)!
Beautiful hot pink applesauce comes out
Put into quart freezer containers to be frozen (kids sneak bites)
And here is what dear W did most of the time - mowed down his first whole apples. He pretty much had an apple in hand all day! Did really well with them too - no choking (these apples were pretty soft by now), and it probably felt good on his teeth that he is working on getting in.Big thanks to Mom B and Auntie C and kids that played well together all afternoon! This is a homemade treat that we will enjoy all year! Storebought applesauce is easy and can be good, but nothing really compares...