This past weekend was the Second Annual Crazy Apple Daze Festival in Lisa’s home town.
Okay, it was a family get-together where everyone pitches in we make apple butter.
Apple butter, for those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept (I wasn’t until a couple years ago) has lots of apples and no butter in it. Basically, it’s a whole bunch of apples cooked over an open fire for about 6 hours until it boils down to an essence that an only be described as “supremely apple.”
In the photo above, you can see how two bushels of apples look at the onset of the process.

This is what the apples look like after about 2 and a half hours of cooking and stirring…

and here’s the product that finally winds up being canned, six hours later.
You can see a video of this entire process by checking out the Cheap Date Show and look for the October 16 episode. (iTunes users: you can subscribe by clicking here, and each new episode will automagically download to your computer when it’s ready.)
Next year, we’ll do it all over again…