Holiday Parties and Apple Machine
The kids went to a holiday party at the college on Saturday. It was organized by the third-year hospitality students and I thought they did a good job. There was lots of food, crafts, buskers, movies, and of course, Santa Claus.
We had to leave early to rest up for another party that evening (no pictures of that one because it was a house party).
On Sunday, between aikido lessons and catching up on chores, the kids and I made a couple of apple pies. It was a good opportunity for us to try out our new apple machine, from Lee Valley. I got this contraption as a gift from my older sister 2 years ago, but up until now we were still using our Starfrit apple peeler which, as it turns out, is much less efficient. Using this machine is a fun activity to do with the kids, and makes coring and peeling a snap (works on potatoes and yams too).
This is the finished item - a naked and cored granny smith.
You pull back the handle, stick an apple into the prongs, and slowly turn the handle. You can adjust the peeling blade for a thicker or thinner peel.
Keep turning until the apple is past the coring ring at the end.
Pop off the coiled finished apple, which you can easily break up into thin slices.
Pop off the core.
It's so quick that I've actually started looking for more recipes that call for sliced apples, rather than avoiding them as I have in the past.
The rest of the weekend was not so great. Sunday evening I was felled by a massive headache-y cold, the kind where, as my younger son says, your face "is like water", meaning the weepy eyes and drippy nose. I was too sick to knit or even just read, which was a bummer.
We had to leave early to rest up for another party that evening (no pictures of that one because it was a house party).
On Sunday, between aikido lessons and catching up on chores, the kids and I made a couple of apple pies. It was a good opportunity for us to try out our new apple machine, from Lee Valley. I got this contraption as a gift from my older sister 2 years ago, but up until now we were still using our Starfrit apple peeler which, as it turns out, is much less efficient. Using this machine is a fun activity to do with the kids, and makes coring and peeling a snap (works on potatoes and yams too).
This is the finished item - a naked and cored granny smith.
You pull back the handle, stick an apple into the prongs, and slowly turn the handle. You can adjust the peeling blade for a thicker or thinner peel.
Keep turning until the apple is past the coring ring at the end.
Pop off the coiled finished apple, which you can easily break up into thin slices.
Pop off the core.
It's so quick that I've actually started looking for more recipes that call for sliced apples, rather than avoiding them as I have in the past.
The rest of the weekend was not so great. Sunday evening I was felled by a massive headache-y cold, the kind where, as my younger son says, your face "is like water", meaning the weepy eyes and drippy nose. I was too sick to knit or even just read, which was a bummer.
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