Pineapple is one of those foods that are really well suited for dehydrating. They are easy to prepare and get super sweet when they’re dried. Great for snacking or putting in trail mix, granola, breads, etc. I’m sure you want some, so here’s how you do it. First, get a pineapple. Or two or three. […]
Dehydrating Blueberries
This is one of those projects that was really so easy it shouldn’t deserve its own post, but here it is anyway. Dehydrating blueberries. First, get some blueberries. It really doesn’t matter how many, but the more the merrier. Wash them and pick out any that are squishy or bad. Now get a pot of […]
Making Banana Chips by Dehydrating Bananas
Yeah, I’ve got the dehydrator going again. I came into a bunch of bananas that I knew my kids wouldn’t eat before they went all over-ripe and brown, so I thought I’d get ahead of the game and dehydrate some into banana chips. To dehydrate bananas, you want ripe bananas. They’re not as good if […]
Dehydrating Frozen Broccoli
Frozen vegetables are perfect for dehydrating. They’ve already been blanched prior to being frozen and you can usually just dump them out on your dehydrator tray frozen and start drying. Super easy. This weekend I dried some broccoli. Broccoli is kind of large and thick straight out of the bag, so I let it sit […]
Freezing and Dehydrating Corn: Choose Your Own Adventure
You know I could post this as two posts, but the only difference between freezing and dehydrating corn is the last step, so for simplicity I’m just doing one post with two possible endings. Kind of like the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. You read those didn’t you? I really liked the original #8 if […]
Drying Corn
I planted some corn this year that was supposed to dry and be ground for cornmeal. I didn’t read that it has a 110 day growing season, which we barely have here, and I didn’t plant it right at the beginning of the season, so when it wasn’t dry by the first hard frost, I […]
Dehydrating Peppers
I put up a post on the Utah Preppers site on Dehydrating Peppers. Check it out–pretty easy and totally useful, especially if you like peppers or planted way too many of them ;-) I promise I’ll be back for some regular posting after the harvest season slows down a bit! Keep preparing! Angela *************************************************************** Subscribe […]
Dehydrating Shredded Zucchini
In the past I have dehydrated zucchini by slicing it and then drying the slices to add to soups, etc. I have also sliced it thin and sprinkled seasoning on it and dried it to make “zucchini chips”. They weren’t bad, but they weren’t something I wanted more of–maybe I didn’t use the right seasonings–it’s […]
Dehydrating Cherries
Dehydrating Cherries is pretty easy, but does require that you have a cherry stoner unless you really want to cut the pits out of every cherry (NOT recommended unless you really have nothing better to do with your time, which I can’t imagine). Step one is to wash the cherries. Yep, that’s the same wash […]
Dehydrating Onions
Today we’re making dried onions in a dehydrator. Dried onions are super handy to have around because they don’t go bad and they’re ready to use in whatever meal you’re making. Drying onions is easy and requires no cooking/blanching. So here’s how to dehydrate onions. I bought a sack of onions last fall because, well, […]