My favorite way to preserve vegetables is to dehydrate them.
I have been working on converting our favorite recipes to recipes that use home canned and dehydrated foods. I will be posting them on http://simplifyitexemplifyitrecipes.blogspot.com/. Currently there are only Survival Bars and Chocolate Waffles, but more will be there soon.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Dried Apricots
Last year my mom dried apricots. Apricots are sulfured to keep them from turning dark. Sulfuring them at home was not the same. They tasted awful.
Drying them with nothing on them is as bad as home dried bananas in my opinion.
Cutting them in half, removing the pit and covering them with apricot flavored jello worked the best.
After about 6 to 8 months the apricots turned dark, but tasted good still. I will help mom make more this year and take pictures and post them.
Drying them with nothing on them is as bad as home dried bananas in my opinion.
Cutting them in half, removing the pit and covering them with apricot flavored jello worked the best.
After about 6 to 8 months the apricots turned dark, but tasted good still. I will help mom make more this year and take pictures and post them.
No More Dehydrated Hash Brown Potatoes, Making Frozen Fruit Bars.
The dehydrated hash brown potatoes were a hit around here for the adults. They are a pain to make, but so easy to use. Well worth the time and energy.
The dried apples are the favorite food for the little children around here. There are a lot of apples this year, so I will be making more.
I took the strawberries that were frozen last year and the year before and pureed them with coconut water. Then added a little sweetener and made frozen fruit bars and poured the extra into ice cube trays. Only one child tried one so far. She didn't like it. I have been putting the ones from the ice cube trays into protein drinks and love it.
I didn't measure anything. I figured the consistency didn't matter since it would be frozen. All I cared about was that it didn't taste like coconut and was sweet enough that the kids would eat it, but not too sweet to become fruit flavored sugar.
The dried apples are the favorite food for the little children around here. There are a lot of apples this year, so I will be making more.
I took the strawberries that were frozen last year and the year before and pureed them with coconut water. Then added a little sweetener and made frozen fruit bars and poured the extra into ice cube trays. Only one child tried one so far. She didn't like it. I have been putting the ones from the ice cube trays into protein drinks and love it.
I didn't measure anything. I figured the consistency didn't matter since it would be frozen. All I cared about was that it didn't taste like coconut and was sweet enough that the kids would eat it, but not too sweet to become fruit flavored sugar.
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