On Monday, I made beef and vegetable stew for dinner. The stew meat and the potatoes came from vendors at our farmers' market. It has been a cold, rainy day, so the stew was perfect.
I also finally had the chance to try out my Weston Deluxe Electric Food Mill on a double recipe of applesauce today. The instructions that come with it are minimal, so I watched a few You Tube videos to get some tips on working with apples and on how to set it up so that the sauce can flow more easily into my container. I ended up putting a large bowl on a couple of boxes on a stool next to the counter. While I did have to cut the apples into pieces (my recipe does not peel, core, or remove any seeds) so that it would work with the mill, the processing of each 5 lb. and 3 oz. of apples was amazingly quick. It does leave small pieces of skin, but they are too small to be a problem, and I like the chunkier texture. I have at least 10 lbs. more apples to process, but those will wait until after Christmas. I froze three quarts and set one aside for Christmas dinner.
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