Someone's in the Kitchen with Mommy...

As you may know, Florida is known for it's citrus fruit. Delicious apples, like what I use to get at Cherry Hill Orchards, in Lancaster, Pa, are no where to be found down here. Thank goodness mom and dad live in western North Carolina and can find apple orchards near their house. Mom brought me a bushel of my favorite apples (Jonagolds) when I met up with them at Kiawah last month.

Riley LOVES to help me in the kitchen. He uses our stool to get close to the action. While making applesauce, his job was to put the cut up apples in the pot to cook and then to mash them through our food mill once they were good and soft. He was so proud of our finished product. We even got adventurous and made berry applesauce like I buy for him at the store. We took some frozen blueberries and heated them in the microwave, then pressed them through the food mill and mixed them with some applesauce. He loves it. The best part is that we made it together!