sprinklefingers

i don’t mean to keep going on and on about apples - but i have been experimenting like crazy lately and have come up with yet another way to use them - canning your own apple pie filling! incredible yet true. i’m 90% done with my tinkering on the subject (i’ve gotten as far as canning the filling but have yet to bake it into a pie,) and when i’m finished you’ll be the first to hear all about it.

in the meantime, in full disclosure, i must tell you the following two things:

first of all - i burned the s&*t out of my forehead when making apple butter. the best part is that i normally have no-such-thing-as-a-social-life yet i’m slated to attend the party of the year (in my opinion) tomorrow with a gigantic apple butter burn right in the middle of my forehead. in a fancy dress and heels and everything. totally awesome.

next up, (this is the breakup part,) i ended up heaving my canning pot through a window on my last round of sealing jars in a water bath. i had the black speckled kind and got to the point where i could no longer stand the uneven bottom, the wonky jar rack or the ill-fitted lid. so, i chucked it donated it and got this. i consider it to be the cadillac of water bath canners. if you’re into cars. if you’re not into cars and are into - say - jewelry instead - then this is the tiffany diamond ring of water bath canners. and if those two images don’t do it for you, let’s just say it’s going to make all my canning dreams come true and leave it at that.

before i leave you here’s a word of warning: if you do make the cherry vanilla apple butter PLEASE use a splatter screen. and when you lift the splatter screen off the apple butter to check on it - DUCK!