Making Apple Sauce - Low and Slow
We took our time.
Sampled the product.
Admired the core and its seeds.
Appreciated its juiciness and got pretty sticky in the process. It was a meaningful morning of work that gained us a new sensorial understanding of this little slice of autumn and all its richness.
Collectively, we scrubbed the apples…
Peeled the apples…
Chopped the apples…
Chopped more apples…
And let the crockpot work its magic.
That afternoon, the aroma through the room was warm, wholesome and enticing. We enjoyed this sweet and delectable goodness for our morning snack. Yum!
From orchard’s bounty, simple, true,
A taste of autumn, fresh and new.
Homemade warmth, so rich, so pure,
Applesauce, our hearts allure.
In every spoonful, joy we find.
A taste of home, a peace of mind.
I hope there are ways that your family has your own special seasonal traditions that help to mark time, delve into nature and really highlight celebrating together. Making applesauce is one of those classroom rituals that always seems to spark great discovery and glee. What an honor it is to share this delight with your children in this cozy place and time. A possible parenting takeaway from our cooking endeavors this week could be this:
Today I’m appreciating all the ways we can choose to operate- perhaps I can adopt a similar pace of shifting into a mode of being more “low and slow”… like the transformation of the crockpot applesauce. I think this season lends itself to helping us find more things in life that can actually be dialed back a bit and allowed to bubble up and simmer. In this work, I am humbly reminded yet again that some things arise in their own good time. This week offered me the gentle refrain that childhood is not something that we ever need to feel compelled to hurry. May your week ahead allow you to let go of what, as adults, we frequently experience as “productivity pressure” and instead offer ample time to simply
Alyssa Conklin-Moore | Young Child Guide
