Putting Food By

[dalthauser]

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 :-)



 

Comments

[minemouse.livejournal.com]

I have friend who dehydrated a lot of fruits and veggies. She loves it. Bananas are really good dehydrated if you want to try some fruit, really sweet.

[mztasia.livejournal.com]

Back in the day when I had a dehydrator I loved using it to make dehydrated apples and 'nanners. They made excellent "desk snacks" to keep on hand at work.

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

[k2rider78.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea!