The Apple band wagon

So apparently you can get applesauce directly from apples!  Who knew?  You don't have to go to the local grocery store or convenience store or even an out of the way apple specialty shop - all you need is apples.
I suppose somewhere deep down inside and thoroughly hidden by HEB circulars - I knew it was possible, I just never gave it any thought.
However, after reading blog after blog after blog of successful apple sauce pioneers - I had to give it a shot.
Very good call...
After a very healthy run of Apple Cake baking - thanks in part to inspiration drawn from Phoo-D's blog - I had already purchased my new favorite kitchen helper...

If you do not already have one and you can foresee ever having to peel more than one apple - EVER - find one of these little godsends and buy it - you will not regret it!
1 apple peeler/corer/slicer, 12 apples and one 8 year old later...

Beautiful bald apples and

some serious love for the compost heap!!

We chopped these little guys up, added come cinnamon and squirt of lemon and threw 'em in the crock pot.  The beauty of this is that all you have to do at this point is deal with your house smelling like apple cinnamon paradise for the next 8-10 hours...nice.

And then, after all the hardship your nose has been forced to endure - you get beautiful, tasty, healthy, homemade apple sauce.