Homemade Applesauce

Nothing makes a kitchen smell better than apples cooking on the stove. And it's also about the easiest thing to make.
There's nothin' to it! You'll never go back to store-bought applesauce once you've made your own.

Take out a few apples and chop them into chunks, cubes, whatever.
Remove the core and stems.

I buy organic apples because we eat so many of them, but if you are using regular apples you should peel them first.

This pot contains 3 chopped organic apples.

Put them in a pot on medium heat and add enough water to barely cover them.

Bring them to a gentle boil and let them cook until fork tender, about 10 minutes.

Take them off the heat and let them cool a bit. Then transfer to a blender and pulse a few times to get the consistency you like. (If you had peeled them, you could just mash them with a potato masher right in the pot.)

Finished applesauce.

Note 1: I don't like mine to be too watery, so I lift my cooked apples out of the remaining water with a slotted spoon and transfer to the blender instead of dumping in apples and water together.
(But save that water for soaking grains or nuts!)

Note 2: Its lovely plain, but you could also add a sprinkling of cinnamon before blending.

And that's it.

I'm sure you could put it in a jar or covered dish and it would keep in the fridge for a while... but I have never made any that didn't get eaten up right away!