Did you know you can dehydrate frozen vegetables right out of the bag? Frozen veggies are one of the easiest things to dehydrate as the blanching prep work has already been done for you before they were frozen. Just open the bag of frozen vegetables and empty it onto your dehydrator trays. If the veggies […]
Using the Dehydrated Baby Food
Last fall I had a little too much fun making dehydrated baby food. For how to make your own, check the first post on carrots and this one where I made more from squash, pumpkin, and sweet potato. Well, baby brother is finally big enough to be eating solids, so we’ve been using some of […]
Dehydrated Carrots Update
Late last fall (about mid-November) I dehydrated some carrots. My dehydrating book said you could steam blanch them before dehydrating or you could dehydrate them raw. So I did some of each. If you want to read the whole post, go here: Dehydrating carrots. Now it’s been 10 months and the carrots have been stored […]
Dehydrated Baby Food: Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Squash
Last week I had some leftover pumpkin from making a pumpkin roll and just happened to have sweet potatoes left over from Christmas dinner at the same time, so I pulled some frozen “squash” out of the freezer (why I labeled it with only “squash” and not the variety, I do not know) and let […]
Dehydrate Yogurt and Make Yogurt Leather
In one of my dehydrating classes I had someone ask if I’d ever tried making fruit leather with yogurt, which I’ll admit I had heard of but never tried. So when son tried a bite of his yogurt and decided he didn’t want the rest, I figured it was as good a time as any […]
Make Your Own Dehydrated Baby Food
I know you’re thinking why not just make the baby food and either use it or freeze it, but I’m ahead of you on that one! Here’s why you would want some dehydrated baby food. For taking along when baby goes for their backpacking adventure (you know carrying the baby in the baby-backpack is heavy […]
Dehydrating Celery
Dehydrating celery is pretty simple and almost doesn’t deserve its own post except that the results are pretty darn amazing, so I’m posting it anyway. Unfortunately, when I dried this last batch I was in a bit of a hurry and didn’t even take the time to take pictures until the end, so really all […]
Dehydrating Carrots: Steam Blanched or Not
A couple of weeks ago sweet husband did me the favor of digging all the carrots out of the garden even though I told him he could just cover them up with straw and leave them there all winter long. So now I’m having to do something with all the carrots. We had a little […]
Fabulous Fruit Leather (Even if You Dry it Too Long)
Fruit leather is one of those dehydrating projects that may look a bit intimidating, but actually isn’t too hard to do. You’ll see. Even you can make fabulous fruit leather. Your kids will love it and it makes a great trail, camp, or lunchbox snack. So let’s get started, shall we? First you’ll need some […]
Dehydrating Lemons
I know, lemons? Really? What for? Well, to make lemonade with of course, silly. You can also add them to other drinks or put them in the pot when you’re baking fish. (Take them on your next fishing trip and toss them in the foil with a little water when you foil bake your fish […]