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 […]
Chioggia Beets
We grew a couple of new varieties of beets this year. I’m not a huge beet fan, but other members of the family really like them. To me, they pretty much have always tasted like dirt. That is, until last year, when I took my mom’s advice and froze them instead of bottling them. That […]
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 […]
Fabulous Homemade Canned Salsa
I was going to write something fantabulous about Christmas or winter or something, but to be honest, my brain’s about done, so I’m pulling out the Salsa post I’ve been wanting to write. It’s kind of Christmasy because some people I love are getting some of my salsa as gifts this year. There you go. […]
Canning Tomatoes
Today we have another flashback to summer post. Canning tomatoes. I was going to do salsa, but the first steps of salsa are the same as canning tomatoes, so we really need to cover canning tomatoes first. Canning tomatoes starts with getting some tomatoes. Really not cost effective to buy your tomatoes at a grocery […]
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 […]
Pickled Hot Peppers and my Attempt at Plumbing
Pickled Hot Peppers. Sorry, it doesn’t even sound appetizing to me, but sweet husband likes them on his sandwiches and we had an abundance of hot peppers in the garden this year, so as I’m contemplating what I’m going to do with them, he suggests slicing them and canning them for sandwiches. Sure. Sounds easy […]