Super Bowl Butter

What did you do for the Super Bowl this year?

In the past, I have been about as anti-super bowl as it could get. I was actually not a fan of football at all until I met my husband, and always hated all the excessive pageantry and rigamarole that went along with the big game. I still do dislike that aspect of the game. Now that I actually appreciate and enjoy watching a football game, I just wish all the hype could go away and let the two best teams in the league play ball. 

All that having been said, I decided not to attend any Super Bowl gatherings this year. I didn't care much about either of the two teams in the game, and also didn't care much about most of the players. When Carol asked if I wanted to join her in making and canning some homemade apple butter, I said yes! A couple different sets of visitors from Washington this past fall brought troves of delicious, fresh apples with them and we are all still working our way through the many bushels.

The process was really pretty easy, although a little time consuming.  Throughout the afternoon and evening we had a few minor setbacks with appliances, but got it figured out in the end. We had no power outages, nor did we have Beyonce in the kitchen performing a half-time extravaganza (although that might have been fun!), and there was no purple confetti streaming down when we were ultimately victorious over the boiling-water-bath canning method, but it was still fun.  Can't wait to dig in to the apple butter and give it a try!

Maybe next year we will try orange marmalade or lemon curd. :)

Taking the food mill for it's final spin- it unfortunately went kaput during the apple butter adventure.

In the end, 1 pint jar and 4 half-pints of delicious apple butter!