It starts with the sauce.......Cowabunga!!

Hola,

So here we go as promised

 Apple Sauce El Cazador

Need: 3 lbs (1.36Kg) Apples

Cinnamon 3 table spoons

Nutmeg 4 table spoons

Pure Apple Juice 1 cup

Honey 1 cup

1. Cut and stew apples in juice with 2 tablespoons of cinnamon and 2 nutmeg. Simmer for 18 minutes

2. Pour slurry into food processor and mix with honey.

That is how you make awesome apple sauce. 

Serving suggestions - 

Solo cooled in fridge 

Grill pork chops and serve on heated sauce

Over Ice cream

Freezes well for storage. I like to make mine with fresh picked apples.

Snowman candles - Getting ready for the holidays

The family went to Tamarac today. Tamarac is a center established just outside Beckley,West Virginia. The venue highlights locally produced arts, and crafts and include some 7 studios which are leased out to local artists for production of pottery, stained and blown glass, textiles, woodcraft, sculpture, painting, and basket weaving. Visitors have a chance to purchase goods and watch as some are produced. Tamarac also has a book store specializing in local history and West Virginia writers.

Steel fashioned base 

I found a guy there that works steel. He makes beautiful Damaskus blade knifes, and did some interesting manipulations of old railroad spikes.

It's the bees knees

Lots of locally produced Honey. Soooooo so good. While I did enjoy Tamarac it wasn't what I was hoping. I remember the artists and space being more gritty and local. It seemed that the operation is much more commercial now. Not many of the artist were working, and the "cafeteria" serves less than enthusiastic food- not sure it's all local any more. I wasn't as impressed by the craftsmanship of many of the products this time as well. I wonder if it is just my impressions of the past that cause this discrepancy or the Tamarac is actually going down hill.

Funny isn't it how sometimes we build things up in our memories. Occasionally the place, person, what have you, will live up to your expectations. But some times, for whatever reason, the thing has grown legendary status in your memory. I know circumstances, timing, and a load of other environmental stimuli can play a part in the creation of the memory but I don't know. It sort of makes me question the quality and accuracy of memory. This leads me to all kinds of tripped out thinking about consciousness, perception of reality, the soul, biological computers and life systems. Too much at once and too fast for me to type (I'm a slow typer)

This is a weird train of thought.....here are some nice pictures

Going fishin

Blown Glass

Fall Fashion

Gave some good news to a good friend recently. Is there anything better??? I think not. It might be selfish but making others happy really is the best. Well off to work some Spanish and Lightroom 4. Editing digital photography is pretty cool so far. Time consuming (maybe because I have no teacher) but interesting.

Sláinte,

H