Putting Food By
Feb. 22nd, 2008 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
New experiment. I'm dehydrating my garden.
Mostly the greens (collards, spinach, etc.) that I can't consume and have already frozen a good supply. It's pretty simpe, and they shrink down to almost nothing - kind of creepy. I'm storing them in the glass bottles/jars I can't bear to throw out.
I'm going to play with it and see how I can use it. My first idea is using it in my smoothies in the summer when greens don't grow in the garden. I can save some money because I spend about $25 a month on smoothie greens during the summer months. They can also go into fortifying soups/stews. Maybe included in dips (which I never make....so that's not a very good idea I guess).
Anyway - I'll keep my journal posted on my progress :-)

Mostly the greens (collards, spinach, etc.) that I can't consume and have already frozen a good supply. It's pretty simpe, and they shrink down to almost nothing - kind of creepy. I'm storing them in the glass bottles/jars I can't bear to throw out.
I'm going to play with it and see how I can use it. My first idea is using it in my smoothies in the summer when greens don't grow in the garden. I can save some money because I spend about $25 a month on smoothie greens during the summer months. They can also go into fortifying soups/stews. Maybe included in dips (which I never make....so that's not a very good idea I guess).
Anyway - I'll keep my journal posted on my progress :-)


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Date: 2008-02-22 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-23 05:28 am (UTC)Hadnt thought about dehydrating greens. I can see how they would make good "stock" to use in soups and such like you said! As for dip making you can always use them to make a dip to take to work to treat the office or something! LOL
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Date: 2008-02-23 05:16 pm (UTC)