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Keep reading for a mini-guest post from my mom with a hard-core apple themed meal!<\/p>\n

I am light on meals to post because Matt was out of town all weekend and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do a ton of cooking. Tomorrow or Thursday I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be posting a more successful version of my fried rice\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Soy Squared Fried Rice.  Stay tuned! <\/p>\n

Before we get to Mom, check out Missy Maintains<\/a> for a Rudy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Organic Bakery giveaway! These products look delicious!<\/p>\n

Ok, on to mom\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a little info first.  My mom is hilarious and has recently been getting really creative with her food! So when she sent me some pictures of her Sunday dinner this weekend I told her I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d feature it on my blog if she sent me a post to go with it!  Mom doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a blog (sad, but true), but she does have an Etsy site<\/a> that is great! Guess who designed the banner??? \ud83d\ude09 As I wrote about before, she crochets like crazy and everyone in the family has piles and piles of afghans to show for it.  This is spectacular!  I love afghans, and Santana loves to dig them (maybe I will try to get a video of this sometimes), so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good that my mom keeps cranking them out!  With her surplus of afghans, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s created Crochet By Shelly<\/a>, where you can buy your very own, spectacular, hand-made afghan from my mom! All proceeds go to benefitting my mom make more afghans! I think she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d probably be up for suggestions or requests if you had a particular pattern or color that you wanted\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite figured out the Alchemy section of the Etsy site, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a way to do this! ANYWAY, check out my mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Etsy shop for all your afghan needs.  First, though, check out my mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Apple Butter Pork and Apple Pie<\/strong><\/font><\/u> Sunday dinner!<\/p>\n

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On the roast, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have a recipe..<\/p>\n

I browned it (peppered) with olive oil on all sides on the griddle since it was out from making grilled cheese last night. Chopped up a good size onion and placed in bottom of crock pot after adding some season salt.  Had some small carrots and threw some in.  Placed the roast in.  Added the rest of the carrots.  Put some apple butter (Mallory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note: My mom makes this from scratch in the Crockpot!! I have the recipe and plan to try it soon\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6expect a post about it!)<\/em> on the top.  Threw in some beer (surprise \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was the handy liquid and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like opening up stock). Turned the roast once and added some more apple butter and some water.  Too much liquid now, so I took some out and put in a pan to make gravy with later. Have no fresh potatoes so I add a can at the end \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you know those cans dad always has in the cupboard for chili. (Mallory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note: these cans of potatoes are SO handy! Not fresh potatoes that you want to eat on their own, but great for soups or random things like this.) <\/em><\/p>\n

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We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a picture of the final product all plated up, but Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new to this blogging thing, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let it slide\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6if she sends one later, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post an update! \ud83d\ude42 She said the pork was AMAZING and you could taste the apple butter all the way through. Yum!<\/em><\/p>\n

PIE:<\/p>\n