Okra seems to be a very prolific vegetable. Between it and zucchini, you can spend your entire summer trying to figure out what to do with the daily harvests. I know I do. I love slicing it and frying it in cornmeal as well as pickling it in a salty …
Thanks for joining us today. There were a ton of dehydrating questions that I couldn’t get to in episode 13 Dehydrating Listener Questions so today I’m answering more of your questions. Note: with some of these questions I go into greater detail on the show but these show notes will …
Thanks for joining us today. There are a ton of dehydrating questions so I’m just going to jump in and start answering them. Note: with some of these questions I go into greater detail on the show but these show notes will answer the questions if you’re reading this in …
When I had kids I was determined that they would begin life with a healthy diet. Even if they didn’t keep it up through their teenage and college years, I know most people eventually find their way back to doing things as they were raised to do them, especially if …
What Is Dehydrating? Dehydrating is one of the oldest forms of food preservation. There are varying degrees of dried food. For example, zucchini chips are dried until they are light and crispy. Grapes are dried until a large amount of water has evaporated, but they are not dried to the …
I know a post on cleaning a dehydrator seems a little simple. After all, it’s a box with some trays – how hard can it be, right? Well, you’re right, it is pretty straight forward. A little soap and water and in most cases you’re good. But like most activities there …
Mushrooms are one of those foods people are passionate about–they love them, hate them, wash them, never wash them, or proclaim they don’t eat fungi and won’t even try them. Whatever your opinion is on mushrooms the fact remains that they add a lot of nutrition to meals, are very versatile, and are …
Dehydrating food is one of my favorite ways of preserving; I love it so much I’m teaching a class on dehydrating foods! So if you’ve got a dehydrator in the closet that you bought for just making jerky–get it out! Because let me tell you, it can do so much …
Citrus seems to be one of the harder fruits to preserve. After all, home canned orange juice doesn’t taste very good, grapefruit juice although it can be canned still has a canned flavor, and marmalade uses large amounts of sugar. Citrus is so hard to preserve because most of the …
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