So in addition to my Jerky thread... thought I'd get one started on preserving vegetables. fruits, etc.
I've done a lot of meat, but just starting to get into fruits, veggies and peppers. I have a huge pepper garden planned this summer, so will be doing a lot of dehydrating when that starts to produce. But in the interim, will be playing with tomatoes, mushrooms and other stuff.
Best thing I have done so far is pineapple. In March I hit a motherlode of pineapple slices in juice at the grocery store. Clearance? Expiration? Whatever. It was cheap. Bought it all. Put the slices in the dehydrator (and saved the pineapple juice for a pig roast coming up in a few weeks). Absolute pineapple candy! Super easy. Put in the slices. Turn on dehydrator. Presto, pineapple candy.
Anyway, post your successes, failures, good recipes, creative ideas for dehydrating, etc. Also if you are using smoker or sun drying... interested too. I love sun dried tomatoes. I just think it's too humid to do them here. But there are all kinds of tricks to doing this. Few of which I know. But I bet there's some wizards here when it comes to this stuff.
Again, some of this is just for good 'foodie' stuff for cooking with. Maybe for doing something with leftovers now that inflation makes 'throwing out food' expensive. Some of it may come in handy if a real hard rain falls. Might as well learn to do it now! Because you got to do something with the stuff that comes from your Victory Garden.
Cheers,
Sirhr
I've done a lot of meat, but just starting to get into fruits, veggies and peppers. I have a huge pepper garden planned this summer, so will be doing a lot of dehydrating when that starts to produce. But in the interim, will be playing with tomatoes, mushrooms and other stuff.
Best thing I have done so far is pineapple. In March I hit a motherlode of pineapple slices in juice at the grocery store. Clearance? Expiration? Whatever. It was cheap. Bought it all. Put the slices in the dehydrator (and saved the pineapple juice for a pig roast coming up in a few weeks). Absolute pineapple candy! Super easy. Put in the slices. Turn on dehydrator. Presto, pineapple candy.
Anyway, post your successes, failures, good recipes, creative ideas for dehydrating, etc. Also if you are using smoker or sun drying... interested too. I love sun dried tomatoes. I just think it's too humid to do them here. But there are all kinds of tricks to doing this. Few of which I know. But I bet there's some wizards here when it comes to this stuff.
Again, some of this is just for good 'foodie' stuff for cooking with. Maybe for doing something with leftovers now that inflation makes 'throwing out food' expensive. Some of it may come in handy if a real hard rain falls. Might as well learn to do it now! Because you got to do something with the stuff that comes from your Victory Garden.
Cheers,
Sirhr
