Apple Butter Kicked My Ass
You might have noticed there haven't been any posts recently. Monday I decided it was time to use some of the apples we picked and make apple butter. I think the last time I made it was about 7 years ago, so I had had sufficient time to forget the previous trauma. There are apple butter recipes that don't require you to core & peel the 6 pounds of apples--I know this now. Unfortunately, I did NOT know this on Monday. So I spent two hours standing at the sink peeling and coring apples. I don't know if it's an age thing or the fact that I have never really used a paring knife for 2 hours nonstop, by the end of the day my hand was a claw. I thought it would be a good idea to do some stretching, which strained my wrist. Whether or not it was the stress of the claw, the wrist or the 6 hours of standing in the kitchen....but I then threw my back out. Fingers aching, wrist throbbing, and now having to lay flat on my back...there has been NO...