Made in Heaven

The Willie Tree has been very fruitful this year! We had a whole bunch of crab/p apples.Now what to do?

The taste of these things is so awful that you would have to be completely drunk or stricken by the worst cold ever with no taste buds even remotely working to eat one of these things without gagging at least a few times.
BUT since they were fertilized by our wonderful and very much missed Willie Angel I vowed to do something with these things ... I could not just simply throw them away.

My mom, who makes something out of anything, sparked the idea, apple sauce.
I remembered the apple sauce my mom makes ...so very yummie!!!
Of course I had to try it. What better way to use the crappy things than to smush'em up and eat them with some homemade German hash browns (Kartoffelpuffer).
Hmmm ... good idea, this should be one one of my next recipe posts for sure!

While the apples were cooking I ran out to my favorite thrift store hoping I could find a Food Mili / Fleisssige Anna (I am not sure who named these things but it strikes me that this "smashing thing" has a female name in both languages??? Why not Food Albert or Busy John?).

Anyhow my hopes were not very high to find one but low and behold I spotted one lonely Mili on the shelves with all the 50 year old aluminum pots and cast iron pans.
$5.99 ... perfectly worth the splurge!!! It'll be very useful when (if ever) the tomatoes are ripe and we'll try making homemade ketchup, tomato juice and pasta sauce (at least that is the plan ...) 

If you smell what the Mama is cooking????

Me & Mili hard at work ... 

I should have some nice biceps by the time we are done with canning foods :)

Add some (loads of) sugar and cinnamon and you'll have yourself a pot full of homemade crap-apple-sauce.

We had enough to can it.
These are two glasses that will sit on our garage shelf waiting for these Kartoffelpuffer
 ... yummmm

I'd have to add that this stuff tastes nothing like the apple sauce my mom makes ... absolutely nothing!!!
The fact that Pat let the apples burn a bit didn't help the taste but it's just not the same.

I have long given up trying to make things taste like my mom's creations. She is just much better at it!!!
But I'll never give up trying. Maybe one day it'll taste like her food
... just without her making it for me, bringing it for me to the table, sitting down with me to eat it and then race to the kitchen to clean it all up and to make something new for the next meal time. We were all very much spoiled by her in that way!!! Thanks Mama!!!!