Dips, Dressings, and Sauces
Slow Cookin' Sunday: Sugar-Free Apple Butter
The mystery of apple butter has been sufficiently and successfully solved. I have never eaten apple butter before. Oh, I've heard about it for a long time. I've had long conversations with people about apple butter. And every Fall I've wanted to make some or buy some, but it always somehow just managed to slip away as a fleeting thought. This year though, local apples were on sale for 39 cents a pound at our market.
Baklava Style Walnut Butter
Are you ready for this? This, my friends, is all the taste of Baklavas, without ANY of the guilt. This, is MY dream come true.
The smell of fall spices brings childhood memories rushing back into my mind. Even though I grew up in a Taiwanese family, I also grew up in a fairly rural part of Southwest Virginia, tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains. A close family friend, who was like a grandmother to me, would always cook a huge batch of apple butter every fall. I remember visiting her at her house and watching her stir a huge cauldron full of the wonderful smells of apple butter brewing inside.
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