Apples

Easy Homemade Applesauce
Kale, Apple, and Lemon Quinoa Salad

Easy Homemade Applesauce

By PEAS Farm Caretaker 2011, Katharine Roggeveen

Makes: About 2 quarts

Time: About 1 hour, largely unattended

Ingredients:

5 lbs of apples
Salt

Preperation:

1. Cut the apples in half or, if they’re very large, in quarters. If you don’t have a food mill, peel and core. Put about ½ inch of water and a pinch of salt in the bottom of a large pot and add the apples. Cover and turn the heat to medium.

2. When the water begins to boil, uncover the pot. Cook, stirring occationally and lowering the heat if the mixture threatens to burn on the bottom, until the aples break down and become mushy, at least 30 minutes. Let sit until cool enough to handle.

3. If you have a food mill, pass the mixture through it, discarding the solids that stay behind. If not, mash if you like with ha fork or potato masher. Freeze or refrigerate.

11 Great Seasonings for Applesauce:

1. Freshly ground black pepper

2. Ground cumin, coriander, or caraway seeds

3. Minced fresh chile or hot red pepper flakes or cayenne

4. Chipotle chiles, dried or canned with a little of the adobo sauce

5. Chopped peeled fresh ginger (good with savory or sweet)

6. Roasted garlic

7. Granulated or brown sugar

8. A little fresh grating of nutmeg

9. Pinch of ground cloves

10. Pinch of ground allspice

11. Pinch of cinnamon

**Tips for adding spices: Just put any of the spices into the pot along with the apples. Start with a teaspoon or so, then taste and add a teaspoon at a time as needed.**

Kale, Apple, and Lemon Quinoa Salad

from Good Clean Fun Eating
serves 4

1/2 cup red quinoa (cooked according to package directions)
juice of 1/2 lemon
5 tbs extra virgin olive oil
1 tbs dijon mustard
salt and pepper
5 large kale leaves, chopped
1 small apple, chopped
1/4 cup toasted pecans
2 roma or kumato tomatoes (or 10 cherry tomatoes)
1/3 cup crumbled feta

whisk together lemon juice, olive oil, mustard, salt and pepper. drizzle half over cooled, cooked quinoa. toss remainder of dressing with remainder of ingredients.